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AML Operations Team Lead

Published date more than one year ago
Posted: more than one year ago
Company Holvi
Company: Holvi
Location Helsinki
Location: Helsinki

Holvi is banking for Makers and Doers – a digital service built by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. Holvi combines everything a modern business owner needs in one easy-to-use platform. By combining banking and business tools, our goal is to significantly reduce the amount of overhead and manual processes of traditional business administration. Our vision is to create a new banking model: “Entrepreneurship-as-a-service”.

The mission of the AML and Anti-fraud Operations team at Holvi is to perform ongoing Anti-Money Laundering (AML) monitoring and other ongoing reviews to meet our regulatory, payment network, and partnership requirements. We actively monitor to ensure the safety and soundness of the Holvi system and maintain a healthy, compliant user base.

We’re now seeking an experienced AML and Anti-fraud Operations Team Lead to help drive our operational excellence. Our ideal candidate is someone who wants to keep criminals from abusing the financial system, likes to do the right thing and knows how to maintain independence and objectivity.

Apply to this position if you have a proven track record in the area of AML and transaction monitoring, experience interfacing with banking regulators and enforcement staff and a thorough understanding of an effective financial crime risk management framework.

Your responsibilities:

  • Manage a team of Analysts who will perform compliance reviews and investigations.
  • Set clear goals and objectives and motivate teams to achieve superior results.
  • Coordinate requests making sure the workload is distributed between team members according to the priority and handle the escalations accordingly.
  • Assist the team with investigations, if necessary, and ensure timely escalation to senior management where required.
  • Ensure that the team assess the alerts adequately and promptly, and maintain proper documentation on the rationale of the closure.
  • Design and determine smart and future processes for transaction monitoring and investigations or compliance reporting workflows.
  • Ensure that the anti-money laundering, counter-terrorism financing, sanctions and other relevant procedures executed by the team are compliant with Holvi or the regulatory standards and policies.
  • Ensure the fair treatment of the Holvi customers is at the heart of everything we do, both personally and as an organization.

To achieve success in the role we expect from you the following:

  • 2+ years of team management experience (including hiring, 1-1 meetings, career development plans..)
  • 3+ years of experience in AML related industry and extensive knowledge on transaction monitoring
  • Preferably AML professional qualifications / certifications (for example CAMS)
  • Ability to exercise sound judgment and possess critical thinking skills
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment with a drive to deliver outstanding results
  • Fluent in Finnish and English. German is considered a plus.
  • Good verbal and written communication skills at all levels
  • Ability to be flexible, manage priorities whilst remaining calm under pressure
  • Positive ‘can do’ attitude and an ability to take ownership of tasks through to completion

If you have a proven track record in a customer focused environment and of delivery within challenging timescales, as a AML and Anti-fraud Operations Team Lead at Holvi you will have chance to strongly contribute towards the achievement of company’s strategic and operational objectives.

We offer you

  • A talented team of +120 colleagues of 23 different nationalities across offices in Helsinki, Berlin and Madrid
  • A front-seat position in a fast growing technology company with solid funding and a clear long-term vision
  • Competitive salary & benefits
  • Continuous development opportunities
  • An exciting career opportunity in a fast growing fintech company, owned by one of the world’s leading innovator banks, BBVA.

About Holvi

  • We’re banking for Makers and Doers - European entrepreneurs, freelancers and small business owners.
  • Founded in Helsinki, Finland in 2011 by entrepreneurs, tired of the time and effort that money management and bureaucracy took up. We’re here to make entrepreneur’s everyday life easier.
  • We are not an old fashioned bank but a modern technology company with solid funding and a clear long term vision.
  • We operate as an Authorised Payment Institution regulated by the FIN-FSA.
  • We take care of all the layers of the stack – interface, infrastructure, operations and marketing.


This position is based in Helsinki and reports directly to Head of Customer Operations.

Please submit your CV and application by latest 17 of November, 2019.

For more info, please get in touch with Adriano Celiento, adriano@holvi.com.