Compliance Assistant AML

American Express
Madrid
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Legal, Risk & ComplianceExperience: 1-3 yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Analytical skills","Problem-solving","Communication","Independent work","Integrity"]

Conduct AML compliance activities including customer profile analysis, sanctions/PEP screening, and monitoring suspicious transaction alerts. Investigate and respond to alerts and investigations, ensuring timely and accurate suspicious-activity reporting to relevant authorities. Maintain awareness of regulatory changes, perform sanctions screening, and complete regulatory reporting tasks. Coordinate progress updates and suspicions with Team Leaders and Market Compliance Officers, collaborating with internal stakeholders to obtain concurrence.

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American Express
American Express
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Compliance Assistant AML

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Job Summary

Conduct AML compliance activities including customer profile analysis, sanctions/PEP screening, and monitoring suspicious transaction alerts. Investigate and respond to alerts and investigations, ensuring timely and accurate suspicious-activity reporting to relevant authorities. Maintain awareness of regulatory changes, perform sanctions screening, and complete regulatory reporting tasks. Coordinate progress updates and suspicions with Team Leaders and Market Compliance Officers, collaborating with internal stakeholders to obtain concurrence.
Location: Madrid
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Legal, Risk & Compliance
Seniority: Entry level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Perform customer profile analysis by gathering information in internal and external media against sanctioned individuals, PEPs, and Factiva lists.
  • •Manage review of suspicious transaction alerts: monitor, investigate, and report suspicious transactions to protect against illicit use related to money laundering or terrorist financing.
  • •Conduct sanctions screening and stay up to date with regulatory changes in sanctions and AML.
  • •Maintain timely fieldwork execution and provide regular updates to the Team Leader and local Market Compliance Officers regarding progress and possible suspicions.
  • •Handle sanctions related alerts and investigations, identify and communicate suspicions with stakeholders (Security, Fraud, etc.), and obtain concurrence when needed.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionLife InsuranceDisabilityParental Leave

Key Requirements

  • •1–3 years of proven experience in a bank/financial/payment institution within Compliance or AML, with hands-on experience in transaction monitoring, alerts investigation, and EDD/CDD.
  • •Degree in law, criminology, or ADE.
  • •Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to conceptualize and break down complex issues.
  • •Excellent verbal and written communications skills in Spanish and English, including proven report writing on suspicious activity.
  • •Ability to complete tasks independently with minimal direction and maintain integrity and teamwork.
Experience:1-3 yearsBankingFinancial servicesPayment institutionsAMLTransaction monitoring
Education:Bachelor's in law, criminology or ADE
Skills:Analytical skillsProblem-solvingCommunicationIndependent workIntegrity
Languages:SpanishEnglish

Eligibility

Work Authorization:Authorization required. Sponsorship not provided.

Company Brief

American Express
Provides global payment, credit, and travel-related financial services for consumers and businesses. Best known for its charge and credit cards, merchant payment network, and premium customer rewards and servicing.
Industry: Payments
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: New York City, United States
Founded: 1850
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