AML Expert

Detecting Financial Crime in short

Driven by our purpose ‘Banking for better, for generations to come’, we are committed to a sustainable, stable and secure financial system. We want to be a reliable bank for our customers and society, for which we play an important role in the prevention of financial crime. As a bank, we act as ‘gatekeeper’, meaning we prevent, detect and respond promptly to potential risks related to financial crime.

Within the Detecting Financial Crime (DFC) department, the activities related to the detection of financial crime have been brought together. By combining knowledge, expertise and strengths across ABN AMRO Group, we are increasingly able to prevent financial crime in our banking systems, deploy new (technological) developments and make our work more effective and efficient through innovative solutions. ABN AMRO invests in this field, for example through partnerships with industry-leading vendors, public-private partnerships and interbank partnerships. DFC is a very dynamic environment where the utmost is demanded of our expertise, alertness and flexible mindset, day in and day out!

Your job

The Risk Mitigation & Innovation team (RIMI), part of the department Innovation & Design, is looking for a senior AML Expert, specifically in the Transaction Monitoring and Transaction Filtering domains. RIMI is part of the first line of defence, and acts groupwide as Centre of Expertise making the work within DFC more effective and efficient. Amongst others, this yields: effectuating the Risk Based Approach process, improving Monitoring and Filtering settings, optimizing Risk Effectiveness, and looking for opportunities to innovate. Currently the team exists of 25 ambitious colleagues. The role is identified as a role where expertise in the AML domain ánd execution come together. What does this mean?

• You are an expert in the AML domain; specifically you have in-depth knowledge of Transaction Monitoring and/or Transaction Filtering. You will stay ‘end-to-end’ up-to-date: on changes in relevant laws or regulations, on new innovations, and internally to be able to oversee the AML/Sanctions domain, and to act upon significant changes.
• You are persuasive and able to communicate with senior management, 1LoD, 2LoD and 3LoD colleagues. Making an improvement happen means close alignment with relevant stakeholders. Your colleagues trust you on your expertise, you will lead initiatives that result in improvements in organisation-wide processes.
• You will work in a dynamic environment, where your expertise and hands-on mentality come together resulting in designing and executing proposals to continuously improve and innovate.
• Together with your direct colleagues, and colleagues from Business / Data Science / Operations / IT / Data Analysis, you will come up with long-term solutions for strategic issues, and initiate innovations in the AML/Sanctions domain. You function as the linking pin between especially the business, operations and IT.

Working environment

The Risk Mitigation & Innovation team (RIMI) is part of the first line of defence, and acts groupwide as Centre of Expertise making the work within DFC more effective and efficient. Amongst others, this yields: effectuating the Risk Based Approach process, improving Monitoring and Filtering settings, optimizing Risk Effectiveness, and looking for opportunities to innovate. Currently the team exists of 20 ambitious colleagues.

Your profile

Are you always looking for ways to improve? Do you have both content knowledge and execution power? Do you have the drive to bring an innovative idea to reality? Do you like to simplify complex subjects? Then you are the one we are looking for!

• You have an academic working and thinking level.
• You have 10+ years of relevant work experience with AML, KYC, CM or TM and knowledge of SIRA analysis.
• You have experience with project management and change initiatives.
• You move easily in a complex stakeholder field and possess excellent communication skills.
• You are change-oriented, you work well in a dynamic environment, and acting on complex challenges and possibilities is your energizer.
• CAMS certification by ACAMS is preferred.

We are offering

• The gross monthly salary displayed above is based on a 36-hour work week, including vacation pay and benefit budget
• The Benefit Budget is 11% of your salary. The Benefit Budget allows you to acquire additional employment benefits. If you make no purchases or reservations in the Benefit Shop in a given month, you are paid one twelfth of your Benefit Budget that month.
• Five weeks of vacation per year. You have the option to purchase an additional four weeks per year.
• Personal development Budget of € 1,000 per year, which you can accumulate up to € 3,000.
• Possibility to work from home (in consultation with your team and depending on your position).
• An annual public transport pass with free public transportation throughout the Netherlands.
• An excellent pension scheme.

Interested?

 Apply now and become an important link in making the work within DFC more effective and efficient. For more information please contact Charlotte Zonjee via charlotte.zonjee@nl.abnamro.com. 

Equal opportunities for all

The success of our organisation depends on the quality of our people and the ideas that they have. Truly surprising insights and innovative solutions for our clients result from an interplay of cultures, knowledge and experience. Diversity is therefore extremely important to our organisation. To ensure that everyone at ABN AMRO can develop their talents, we encourage an inclusive culture in which all colleagues feel engaged and appreciated.

Disclaimer external recruitment agencies

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