Senior Compliance Analyst - Financial Crime

Job Description 

In a context of strengthening its’ Financial Crime Team, and under the responsibility of the Financial Crime Lead & Head of Compliance Operations, you will contribute to the control and reduction of the company’s risks and will perform the operational risk management function on a daily basis.

As a senior member of the team, you will support and show expertise through experience and leadership skills within the team.

Your main missions will be:

Daily Tasks of the Financial Crime Unit

• Working to investigate and detect Financial Crime on our platform
• Working with Sanctions, Intercom Requests and Investigating Fraudulent Activity
• Reporting of STR/SARs to applicable Financial Intelligence Units & Law Enforcement
• Constant improvement of internal processes and projects
• Reporting to Financial Crime Manager and Compliance Officer on the results of activities and investigations
• Performing of KYC/EDD on potential Adverse Media and Suspicious activity
• Investigating Counter Terrorism financing and serious Financial Crimes

Management of Transactional Alerts

• Ensure adherence to AML-CTF legislation and regulations, in addition to internal processes and procedures
• Performing Suspicious Activity Monitoring
• Alerts queue management: ensure the workload is appropriately attributed to Financial Crime unit employees
• Validations of Escalated Alerts
• Escalation to Authorized Management and Compliance Officer in case of higher-profile alerts and complex investigations

Systems Evolution

• Contribute to Projects defining Financial Crime specification for new systems of current systems evolution.
• Working as a team to test new systems and tools fighting Financial Crime

Diverse Request Handling (Internal & External)

• Manage the treatment of queries in relation to specific transactions / Clients, from Partner Banks, Platforms, Internal Departments etc.
• Ensure timeliness and quality of answers provided.
• Manage treatment of other ad-hoc requests, as needed

Regulatory requests

• Carry out investigation as appropriate in case of regulatory requests, document findings. Coordinate with other departments (Finance, Fraud, Support) as required.
• Support investigations to routinary requests from Police authorities and similar, in coordination with Compliance and Legal.

Who you are :

• A Financial Crime or AML/KYC Analyst with at least 7 years professional experience, preferably in the payments/acquisition business.
• English is Mandatory for this position.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite and experience with data analysis tools (e.g., SQL, Excel, Tableau) is preferred.
• Any additional language, French in particular, is a distinguished plus.
• If you consider yourself a good fit for the role, interested in fighting Financial Crime; and you are interested in contributing by joining a fast-growing, fast-paced Fintech, we would be happy to hear from you.

Only candidates already residing in the EU and/or with a valid EU work permit are eligible for this position.

Additional information:

HR Call

1st Interview with our Fraud Prevention Lead and our Head of Fraud

2nd interview with our VP Compliance EU