What you’ll do

📍Policy Development and Maintenance: Assist in the development, review, and update of AML/CFT policies, procedures, and guidelines to ensure regulatory compliance, while ensuring their effective communication and implementation across the organisation. 📍Execution of Quality Controls: Conduct regular quality control checks to ensure adherence to internal policies and procedures, identify areas for improvement, provide recommendations to enhance compliance and operational efficiency, and ensure that quality control findings are documented and addressed promptly. 📍Transaction Monitoring and Source of Funds Verification: Conduct thorough reviews and verifications of the source of funds for high-risk clients, assess the legitimacy of clients' funds through the analysis of financial documents and transaction histories, oversee transaction monitoring to identify suspicious activities, ensure all findings and decisions are documented in compliance with regulatory requirements, and collaborate with the AML Officer (AMLO) for effective case management and follow-up on reported incidents. 📍Collaboration and Communication: Work closely with Legal, Risk Management, Product, and Operations departments to ensure a coordinated approach to financial crime compliance, and communicate effectively with senior management by providing regular updates on compliance activities and issues. 📍Project/Process Management: Analyse and improve processes to enhance efficiency, compliance, and effectiveness within the AFC compliance framework, support the implementation of process improvements and best practices, and support AFC compliance project initiatives by defining objectives, timelines, and ensuring successful execution and delivery. Identify and mitigate potential risks and issues, monitor project progress, maintain effective communication with stakeholders by providing regular updates, and ensure alignment with business objectives and compliance requirements through comprehensive documentation.

Who you are

📍Educational Background: You possess a degree in Law, Finance, Economics, or a related field, with a strong preference for candidates with a robust legal background. Your academic journey equips you to understand and navigate complex regulatory environments seamlessly. 📍Relevant Experience: You possess experience from compliance departments within the crypto industry, banks, financial institutions, or fintechs and already have had exposure to relevant AML legislation such as the FM-GWG or similar legislation of other EU countries. 📍Language Proficiency: You possess excellent written and oral English skills, ideally complemented by German and other key European languages (such as French, Italian, or Spanish). Your exceptional communication and presentation skills enable you to analyse financial documents across languages, clearly articulating complex ideas to support Bitpanda's mission of making finance accessible to everyone. 📍Analytical and Research Skills: You possess strong analytical abilities with a keen attention to detail, enabling you to excel in investigative tasks in the area of Anti-Financial crime and identify optimization opportunities, contributing effectively to solutions. You enjoy conducting research, particularly related to relevant laws, regulations, and guidelines from national authorities, to ensure compliance with legal requirements in all aspects of your work. 📍Organisational Skills: You possess strong organisational skills that enable you to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and have likely gained initial experience in supporting projects. You consistently deliver high-quality outcomes within set timelines, ensuring that all deadlines and expectations are met without compromising on the standards of delivery.