Senior AML Compliance Data Specialist

Join Adyen, a global payment company, as a Senior AML Compliance Data Specialist. In this role, you will work at the intersection of AML typologies, data, and analytics, independently challenging the First Line, shaping Financial Economic Crime (FEC) risk scenarios, and defending our controls to Model Validation, Internal Audit, and global regulators. You will have the opportunity to create your own path on industry-first problems and drive continuous improvement of the global framework.

• Lead the development and refinement of financial crime risk scenarios, ensuring that the transaction monitoring framework effectively covers identified risks.
• Independently challenge the First Line on the design, implementation, and effectiveness of detection methods, and ultimately approve changes to the transaction monitoring framework as risk owner.
• Represent and defend the organization's controls to Model Validation, Internal Audit, and regulators, and own remediation of findings.

• Full professional proficiency in English
• Comfortable forming and defending your own view under scrutiny, and holding sign-off as a risk owner
• Energized by a launch-fast-and-iterate environment, balancing speed with regulatory rigor
• 5+ years in AML, Financial Crime, or Compliance Analytics; depth matters more than exact tenure
• Proven track record in developing, tuning, or advising on FEC risk scenarios and transaction monitoring frameworks
• Data-savvy and hands-on: you dig into large datasets yourself in Python/PySpark to generate your own insights, and use Looker to turn them into the evidence that convinces your stakeholders
• A strong stakeholder manager, credible with engineers, regulators, and commercial teams alike; you talk straight without being rude
• A go-getter who owns end-to-end, navigating ambiguity and competing priorities with minimal oversight
• Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, we encourage you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application!