Financial Crime Analyst

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Permanent contract
Luxembourg
Salary: Not specified
No remote work
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Job description

 

As a member of the Compliance Operations team, you will support and show expertise through acquired skills within the team. 

Your main missions will be: this role involves detecting and mitigating financial crime risks in a compliance-driven environment. 

Daily tasks of the Financial Crime team 

  • Manage Sanctions & PEPs: handle investigations related to Sanctions, PEPs, Adverse Media, serious financial crimes and Counter Terrorism Financing. 
  • Investigate Financial Crimes: identify and analyse fraud, money laundering, and other financial crimes on the platform. 
  • Process Improvements: support the enhancement of internal investigative processes and projects. 
  • Reporting: provide findings to the Financial Crime Manager and Compliance Officer. 
  • KYC/EDD: conduct KYC and Enhanced Due Diligence checks on flagged individuals or entities. 

Management of Transactional Alerts 

  • Manage transaction alerts: oversee the handling and resolution of transactional alerts in compliance with internal and regulatory requirements. 
  • Ensure compliance: ensure all processes adhere to AML-CTF legislation and internal policies. 
  • Monitor Suspicious Activity: conduct ongoing monitoring of suspicious transactions and activities. 
  • Alerts queue management: allocate alert workloads efficiently to the Financial Crime team to ensure no backlog is building up 
  • Escalate complex cases: escalate high-profile or complex alerts to senior team members and Authorised management.

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 
  • Perform quality assurance checks and support Compliance reviews 

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 routine requests from Law Enforcement and other authorities, in coordination with Compliance and Legal.

Who You Are:

  • You have a first successful experience as a Financial Crime Analyst with at least 1-2 years of professional experience, preferably in the payments/acquisition business.
  • Fluency in English is mandatory for this position.
  • Proficiency in additional languages, especially French, is a distinguished advantage.
  • You are passionate about combating Financial Crime and eager to contribute to a fast-growing, fast-paced Fintech environment.

Additional information

  • HR call
  • Interview with Financial Crime Lead
  • Interview with Head of Fraud

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