AML Senior Analyst

About Remote

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.

With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role.

We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.   If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!

What this job can offer you

This is an exciting opportunity to join Remote during a pivotal phase of growth, as part of our Risk Operations - part of our broader Payments & Risk organisation. You will help setup sound procedures for vetting our customers globally.

Not only will you have the responsibility to introduce and implement innovative anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-financing terrorism (CFT) solutions for our platform, you will play a key role in tackling fraud and driving continuous improvement. You will be working as part of a regulated Payment Institution, and will step into a crucial role that helps customers have a smooth onboarding experience, while ensuring that Remote meets all of its regulatory obligations.

What you bring

• Several years of experience in operational risk, compliance, KYC/AML, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening with a financial services company or other fintech company
• Proven ability to lead on KYB casework, sanctions environment, and fraud continuous improvement, including familiarity with relevant compliance tools with ability to face off to vendors
• Able to lead projects independently, eager to learn and develop new skills, comfortable taking on projects proactively
• Relevant AML certification preferable, e.g. ACAMS
• Demonstrates strong automation and AI capabilities

Key Responsibilities 

• Review, and take decisions on KYB cases for our regulated payments entity. Conduct enhanced KYB investigations, and create internal reports and recommendations as necessary
• Act as the first line escalation point for the team of KYB analysts working for the Dutch payments entity. Summarize, and escalate high risk cases to the entity’s Compliance Officer and MLRO
• Lead transaction monitoring and investigations, including using monitoring tools, to monitor, detect, prevent and report on possible money laundering, terrorism financing, corruption and other suspicious activity
• Lead continuous improvement around tooling, SOPs and policies
• Conduct stakeholder engagement to raise the profile of Compliance
• Prepare data-driven internal management reports
• In general be ready to lead aspects of the wider team with projects and tasks to transform and improve compliance policies and processes

Practicals

• You'll report to: Senior Manager, Compliance
• Team: Risk Operations - Compliance
• Location: For this position we welcome everyone to apply, but we will prioritize applications from the Netherlands.
• Start date: As soon as possible

Application process

1. Interview with recruiter
2. Interview with future manager
3. Interview with team members (no managers present)
4. Bar Raiser Interview
5. Prior employment verification check 

Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce.  We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.

Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.

At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.

The annual salary range for this full-time position is€77.700—€87.400 EUR

Benefits

Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:

• work from anywhere
• flexible paid time off
• flexible working hours (we are async)
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• mental health support services
• stock options
• learning budget
• home office budget & IT equipment
• budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces

How you’ll plan your day (and life)

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async.

You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

If that sounds like something you want, apply now!

How to apply

1. Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
2. We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
3. If you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.

We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.

Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.