Financial Crime Associate

Freetrade’s mission is to become the default place to invest. Investing has been too complicated and expensive for too long, keeping millions from making the most of their savings.

We’re changing that.

We’re building our team and looking for people who are excited to reshape how our customers invest and grow their wealth. If you’re driven by solving complex problems and building innovative products, you’ll fit right in.

2026 is a big year for us. Last year, we announced a game changing deal to become part of the IG Group. We’ll continue to operate as an independent business while gaining access to the resources and support of an established leader in the space.

This year, we’re accelerating our roadmap and taking our products to the next level. We’re building new features like mutual funds, bonds, and family investment tools. We’re also exploring how we can leverage AI to deliver an even better experience for our customers.

About the team:

We're looking for a Financial Crime Associate to join our team in Budapest. The FinCrime team is set up to detect, monitor and protect Freetrade and our customers against any form of Financial Crime, whilst effectively meeting our regulatory obligations.

The successful candidate will help the FinCrime team in reaching this overall aim primarily by working alerts generated across our monitoring tools, escalating any cases identified and periodically reviewing high-risk customer activity.

The importance of this role is evidenced by the regulatory need for the firm to have sufficient resource to mitigate financial crime risk; additionally, the team has taken on additional monitoring responsibilities over the past 6 months which need to be optimised; whilst expected increases in customer numbers due to growth marketing campaigns and wider company objectives dictates the need for Financial Crime resource to be at satisfactory levels.

You will:

• Work on customer screening/transaction monitoring/trade surveillance alerts

• Conduct and where necessary escalate suspicious activity investigations

• Support the Client Admin team with complex KYC queries escalated to the Financial Crime Team

• Identify and monitor high-risk customers.

• Provide the business with support as we scale up and grow

You have:

• Sound knowledge of financial services and operating within rules and regulations.

• Awareness of the UK’s financial crime regulatory framework

• Experience conducting financial market surveillance, particularly around Insider Dealing, in accordance with the UK Market Abuse Regulation (MAR).

• Good written and spoken English

• Good analytical skills

• Good IT literacy.

• Experience in scaling up processes in line with business growth.

• Exposure ideally to:

  • Conducting market surveillance investigations

  • Conducting transaction monitoring - AML and Fraud transaction monitoring and KYC investigations

  • Identifying and Escalating suspicious activity

  • Processing screening alerts

  • Conducting enhanced due diligence. Experience working in financial services is required, ideally in a retail brokerage firm

  • Ideally, some exposure to AML, Market Abuse, Fraud, Sanction typologies.

Logistics & Interview process:

Freetrade is the place to accelerate your career. Our benefits package and ways of working are designed to attract and retain the most talented people who are dedicated to making an impact at Freetrade.

Here’s what’s on offer in 2025:

Hybrid working culture

We’re operating in a hybrid model: 3-days in-office / 2-days from home. We believe great collaboration happens in person and our beautiful offices in central London and Budapest are designed to bring people together.

🏢 Office days: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
🏡 Work from home days: Wednesday, Friday

Values - at Freetrade we live and breathe our values: Honesty, Focus and Grit. Expect to be asked about these in your interview!

Benefits In Budapest:

• Competitive salary - carefully benchmarked.

• Bonus Scheme - join us and share in our growth. Bonuses are linked to both company success and your individual impact.

• Sickness coverage - You get a 100% coverage up to 15 days/annum.

• Cafeteria - an annual budget to spend at your discretion, whether by adding it to your SZÉP card, covering car-sharing expenses, or using it toward your rent.

• Health insurance - Medicover Blue package, which includes annual preventive examinations, extensive outpatient care, diagnostic tests, one-day surgeries, dental check-up, and even therapeutic exercises.

• Employer voluntary pension contributions - with basic and enhanced options to support your long-term financial wellbeing.

• Learning & Development - We fund industry qualifications so you can grow as a financial services professional.

• Option to Work From Anywhere - for up to four weeks per year.

• Holidays - 20 days as a base, plus your birthday off, and one extra day for every year at Freetrade.

Following the completion of our acquisition by IG Group, you can expect our benefits package to further improve as we align with the broader offerings available across the group.

Interview Process
We keep things simple and transparent. Our process typically includes:

1. Initial interview – A chat with one of our Talent Partners.

2. Hiring Manager interview – A deep dive into your skills and experience.

3. Take-Home Task – Show us how you think and solve problems.

4. Executive interview – A conversation with our stakeholders, where we also assess cultural fit.

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Please note we are not accepting agency CVs.