Senior AML Compliance Data Specialist

Adyen
Amsterdam
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Legal, Risk & ComplianceExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Stakeholder management","Analytical thinking","Independent challenge","Data analysis","Regulatory rigor"]

Join the AML Compliance Analytics team within Adyen’s Second Line AML Compliance to shape and defend transaction monitoring for financial economic crime. You’ll design FEC risk scenarios, challenge the First Line on detection methods, govern technical model documentation, and create validation tools using Python/PySpark and Looker. As a risk owner, you’ll represent controls to Model Validation, Internal Audit, and regulators while aligning stakeholders in a fast, high-autonomy environment.

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Senior AML Compliance Data Specialist

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Job Summary

Join the AML Compliance Analytics team within Adyen’s Second Line AML Compliance to shape and defend transaction monitoring for financial economic crime. You’ll design FEC risk scenarios, challenge the First Line on detection methods, govern technical model documentation, and create validation tools using Python/PySpark and Looker. As a risk owner, you’ll represent controls to Model Validation, Internal Audit, and regulators while aligning stakeholders in a fast, high-autonomy environment.
Location: Amsterdam
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Legal, Risk & Compliance
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design FEC risk scenarios to cover the financial crime risks transaction monitoring must address.
  • •Independently challenge the First Line on detection methods and approve changes to the transaction monitoring framework as risk owner.
  • •Draft and review procedures, guidelines, and technical model documentation to clearly define regulatory rationale.
  • •Build validation tools and run data analysis to identify enhancements and drive continuous improvement.
  • •Defend controls with Model Validation, Internal Audit, and regulators, including owning remediation of findings.

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years in AML, Financial Crime, or Compliance Analytics.
  • •Experience developing, tuning, or advising on FEC risk scenarios and transaction monitoring frameworks.
  • •Ability to own end-to-end work while navigating ambiguity and competing priorities with minimal oversight.
  • •Strong stakeholder management with credibility across engineers, regulators, and commercial teams.
  • •Full professional proficiency in English.
Experience:5+ yearsFinancial crimeCompliance analyticsAMLTransaction monitoring
Skills:Stakeholder managementAnalytical thinkingIndependent challengeData analysisRegulatory rigor
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonPySparkLooker

Company Brief

Adyen
Global payments company providing a unified platform for accepting payments, risk management, and financial services to merchants and enterprises across online, mobile, and in-store channels.
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: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Founded: 2006
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