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Senior AML Compliance Data Specialist
Adyen · Amsterdam
IND sponsor
What you will do
- FEC scenario design: Draft FEC risk scenarios that define the financial crime risks that our transaction monitoring must cover.
- Strategic challenge: Inform, advise, and independently challenge the First Line on the design, implementation, and effectiveness of detection methods, and ultimately approve changes to the transaction monitoring framework as risk owner.
- Technical governance: Draft and review procedures, guidelines, and technical model documentation, ensuring regulatory rationale for analytical choices is clearly defined.
- Risk-first product support: Support new product launches by assessing the risks to our current framework and managing any required changes.
- Analytical validation: Create validation tools and run data analysis to identify enhancements and drive continuous improvement of the global framework.
- Regulatory defense: Represent and defend our controls to Model Validation, Internal Audit, and regulators, and own remediation of findings.
- Global alignment: Align diverse stakeholders and represent Second Line AML Compliance in cross-functional workstreams that support controlled growth.
What they look for
- 5+ years in AML, Financial Crime, or Compliance Analytics; depth matters more than exact tenure.
- Proven track record in developing, tuning, or advising on FEC risk scenarios and transaction monitoring frameworks.
- A go-getter who owns end-to-end, navigating ambiguity and competing priorities with minimal oversight.
- A strong stakeholder manager, credible with engineers, regulators, and commercial teams alike; you talk straight without being rude.
- Comfortable forming and defending your own view under scrutiny, and holding sign-off as a risk owner.
- Data-savvy and hands-on: you dig into large datasets yourself in Python/PySpark to generate your own insights, and use Looker to turn them into the evidence that convinces your stakeholders.
- Energized by a launch-fast-and-iterate environment, balancing speed with regulatory rigor.
- Full professional proficiency in English.