AML Alert Handling Specialist

This is Adyen

We took an unobvious approach to starting a payments company, building a platform from scratch. Today, we're the payments platform of choice for the world's brightest companies. Our unobvious approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity, of backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives, is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business challenges are unique, we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. So no matter where you’re from, who you love, or what you believe in, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen.

AML Alert Handling Specialist

In order to build a sustainable business, we, as a financial institution, need to know at all times what our customers are up to and whether this is in line with rules, regulations and risk appetite. And all this in a scalable way.

Within the AML Operations team we are looking for Alert Handling Specialists, somebody who can stand up to this exciting opportunity in a growing and dynamic business. You are somebody who takes ownership over this responsibility, tries to identify businesses in our portfolio that might pose an increased money laundering, terrorism financing or other compliance related risk to Adyen using our in-house built and maintained tooling, and then collaborates with the merchants and/or account manager to mitigate these risks accordingly. Your drive is to build a sustainable business through sustainable relationships with our merchants. You are somebody that can take full control over their own workflows, always looking to make the right ethical choice. You are looking to innovate, and be critical to find new and better insights into our portfolio.

What you’ll do

• Handling alerts on unusual transactions would be your main responsibility
• Assist with the investigations and research of unusual behaviors using internal and external systems and databases
• Investigate and escalate claims with our compliance team
• Ad-hoc analysis of and investigations into merchants’ compliance risk profile
• Taking ownership over our operational merchant risk management (with a focus on the compliancy related risks)

Who you are

• 0 to 5 years of relevant experience in AML or transaction monitoring. 
• You have strong analytical skills and curiosity to understand things.
• Have a sense of urgency and prioritization
• You have good communication skills and critical thinking
• Experience with payments and the financial industry is a plus. 

Who we are

Adyen is the payments platform of choice for many of the world’s leading companies, providing a modern end-to-end infrastructure connecting directly to Visa, Mastercard, and consumers' globally preferred payment methods. Adyen delivers frictionless payments across online, mobile, and in-store channels. With offices across the world, Adyen serves customers including Spotify, Birchbox, BlaBlacar, LeCab, Comptoir des Cotonniers, Etam, Vestiaire, Facebook, Uber, and L'Oreal.

Ready to meet us?

If you are excited about this role, apply by clicking the below link. We can’t wait to meet you!