This is Adyen
Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition.
For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.
AML & Screening Insights Team Lead
AML & Screening Insights is looking for a team lead to support, guide and coach our team. As part of the First Line, our job is to support the risk management and operational efficiency of the organization. In our team, we place a big emphasis on outside-the-box thinking, work together to sharpen our ideas and a combination of strong analytical and interpersonal skills. The domains we work under, Anti-Money Laundering ('AML') and Counter-Terrorist Financing ('CTF') require attention to detail while maintaining a good idea of risk holistically. The success of our team is measured by keeping our organization compliant, while proposing innovative solutions that manage risks effectively.
The Insights team is based in Amsterdam, however works on our frameworks from a global perspective. From payments to newer product developments, the environment we work on is continuously changing and we cannot afford to get comfortable. We work together with data scientists, investigators, Compliance, and Product on a variety of projects from developing scenarios and detection methods and risk assessments, to forecasting and training.
The Insights team has a high bar for performing, as our scope is quite broad in safeguarding the organization from integrity risk. We create, optimize and maintain detection methods and transaction monitoring scenarios in our Post-Event Transaction Monitoring Framework, as well as deliver insights in the form of dashboards or reports of operational and regulatory challenges. This role will be initially focused on the AML domain, with a lot of opportunities to learn more on other areas of financial economic crime.
What you'll do
- Guide a high-performing team of data analysts, creating a vision for a state-of-the-art transaction monitoring framework.
- Advise Compliance on the appropriate course of action regarding new products and expansion into new industries and their impact on our ML/TF coverage and transaction monitoring framework.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of our framework and find innovative ways to gain more in this area without compromising our risk coverage.
Who you are
- Experienced - A minimum of 2 years of experience working as a data analyst in a Regulatory or Compliance-related role, or in a Team Lead position in a data analytics team.
- Compassionate Coach - You guide teams in a caring manner, you believe in working together as a team and are capable of helping people grow from where they are to where they can fulfill their full potential.
- Technical Expert - Proficient Python and SQL. Strong with BI tools like Looker. You also have experience with big data tooling, i.e. PySpark, Hadoop and Airflow.
- Financial Crime Warrior - Clear and strong motivation to work in the Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Terrorist-Financing field.
- Powerful Persuader and Communicator - Able to drive lead discussions effectively with technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Fierce Forerunner - Operates in high-pressure environments and keeps the dot on the horizon in mind.
- Curious - Asks the right questions, collaborates with the other teams and finds out more about the content and technology we work with on their own initiative.
Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments
Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you're from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen.
Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application!
What's next?
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