Team Lead Anti-Financial Crime Operations (m/f/x)
TLDR
Own the QA framework for high-volume investigations, triage high-risk alerts, and optimize workflows with Product, Data, and Engineering.
- You mentor and empower a team of AFC experts, fostering continuous professional growth, identifying coaching opportunities, and transferring your deep industry knowledge
- You act as the primary escalation point for reviewing and triaging complex, high-risk transaction-based alerts and case investigations before routing them to the 2nd Line
- You ensure operational excellence by taking full ownership of the QA framework, ensuring strict adherence to investigation standards and SLAs in a high-volume environment
- You serve as the strategic liaison between 1st Line, 2nd Line, Product, Data, and Engineering teams to ensure compliance and to optimize workflows, tooling, and process automation
- You continuously identify emerging money laundering, terrorist financing, and financial crime trends to proactively refine operational controls and investigation procedures
- You have several years of experience in an Anti-Money-Laundering/Anti-Financial Crime related operational role within fintech, payments, banking, or a comparable environment
- You bring a deep understanding of money laundering and terrorist financing typologies, as well as other suspicious activities, and the operational controls required to effectively mitigate these risks
- You have prior experience in people leadership and managing AFC Operations experts in a high-volume environment
- You have proven ability to lead operational teams against clear SLAs, quality standards, and client outcome metrics while maintaining strong judgment under pressure
- You are experienced in improving operational processes, documentation, QA frameworks, tooling, and automation in partnership with Product, Data, and Engineering
- You have a strong sense of ownership and the ability to act as a credible escalation point for complex, ambiguous, or high-severity cases
- You have excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to align Operations, Product, Engineering, Data, Compliance, and client-facing teams around priorities and improvements
- You have excellent communication skills in English and German to lead the team effectively
- Be part of one of the fastest-growing and most visible Fintech startups in Europe, creating innovative services that have a substantial impact on the lives of our customers
- Work with an international, diverse, inclusive, and ever-growing team that loves creating the best products for our clients
- Work from our centrally located offices in the heart of Munich or Berlin, nestled in lively neighborhoods filled with vibrant restaurants, cozy cafés, and a wide range of convenient amenities
- Be productive with the latest hardware and tools
- Learn and grow by joining our in-house knowledge sharing or career development sessions and spending your individual Education Budget
- Learn and experience German culture first hand by joining our free German language classes
- International relocation support is provided if required
- Opportunity to work from abroad
- Benefit from an attractive compensation package and from the company pension scheme
- Monthly contribution of 50% for the ‘Deutschland Jobticket’
- Say goodbye to order commissions and say hello to your complimentary subscription of Scalable Capital's PRIME+ Broker
- Enjoy flexible and discounted sports activities with Urban Sports Club
Benefits
Education Stipend
spending your individual Education Budget
Free Meals & Snacks
Say goodbye to order commissions and say hello to your complimentary subscription of Scalable Capital's PRIME+ Broker
Health Insurance
Benefit from an attractive compensation package and from the company pension scheme
Paid Time Off
Monthly contribution of 50% for the ‘Deutschland Jobticket’
Remote-Friendly
Opportunity to work from abroad
Visa Sponsorship
International relocation support is provided if required
Wellness Stipend
Enjoy flexible and discounted sports activities with Urban Sports Club
Scalable GmbH builds a digital investment and banking platform that makes it easy for individuals across Europe to manage their finances with a focus on professional investments in stocks, ETFs, cryptocurrencies, and more. With services like Scalable Broker and Scalable Wealth, the platform offers both retail clients and B2B partners flexible investment options and digital wealth management solutions. This unique combination of full banking capabilities and a commitment to sustainable investments sets Scalable apart in the FinTech landscape.
- Founded
- Founded 2014
- Employees
- 201-500 employees
- Industry
- Capital Markets
- Total raised
- $46M raised