Senior AML Compliance Data Specialist
Adyen is a Dutch financial technology company providing global payment acceptance.
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About Adyen
Adyen N.V. operates a unified financial technology platform for businesses. Its services cover online, in-person, and in-app payments; acquiring; payment methods; risk and authentication; platforms and marketplaces; payouts; card issuing; business accounts; capital; and liquidity management.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design financial-economic-crime risk scenarios and independently challenge transaction-monitoring detection methods. You will govern framework changes as a risk owner, create validation tools, analyze data, document analytical rationale, and support product launches. You will defend controls in reviews, remediate findings, align stakeholders, and mentor through expertise.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in AML, financial crime, or compliance analytics.
- Experience developing, tuning, or advising on financial economic crime risk scenarios and transaction monitoring frameworks.
- Stakeholder-management experience with engineers, regulators, and commercial teams.
- Ability to form and defend independent views and hold risk-owner sign-off.
- Python or PySpark experience for large-scale data analysis.
- Looker experience.
- Full professional proficiency in English.
Responsibilities
- Design financial economic crime risk scenarios for transaction monitoring.
- Challenge and advise the First Line on detection methods and approve framework changes as risk owner.
- Draft and review procedures, guidelines, and technical model documentation.
- Assess framework risks for new product launches and manage required changes.
- Create validation tools and analyze data to improve the global framework.
- Defend controls to Model Validation, Internal Audit, and regulators.
- Own remediation of findings.
- Align stakeholders in cross-functional workstreams.
