Junior Transaction Monitoring Analyst

Lynx Beleggen; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Transport allowance

Home office setup

Training budget €2,000/year

Daily lunch and beverages

Job summary

LYNX seeks a MediorTransaction Monitoring Analyst for its Amsterdam headquarters. You will assess daily financial alerts, profile customers, and explain why alerts trigger, while checking plausibility of transactions against expected client behavior.

You’ll gather public-source information to refine risk profiles and maintain detailed logs, communicating with customers about notable activity and ensuring regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Law, or Criminology.
• 1.5–2 years of experience in Transaction Monitoring.
• Solid understanding of AML regulations and financial crime risks.
• Knowledge of investment products and financial markets.
• Experience with customer communication and documentation requests.
• Strong analytical and investigative skills.

Responsibilities

• Assessing the daily inflow of financial alerts.
• Describe the customer profile, analyze financial data, and explain why an alert was triggered.
• Perform plausibility checks on transactions and ensure alignment with customer behavior.
• Log findings in detail and maintain accurate records.
• Research information from public sources to verify data and determine risk profile.
• Communicate with customers regarding remarkable transactions; handle client information.
• Ensure processes comply with applicable laws and regulations.
• Collaborate with TM professionals across LYNX branches.

Skills

Analytical skills

Investigative skills

Customer communication

Documentation requests

AML regulatory risk

Education

Finance/Law/Criminology degree

Job description

We are looking for a MediorTransaction Monitoring Analyst within the Transaction Monitoring department at our headquarter in Amsterdam. Get ready to dive into the thrilling world of financial alerts and conducting insightful event-driven reviews.

Your journey with LYNX:

• Assessing the daily inflow of financial alerts;
• Describe the customer profile, analyze financial data, describe why a specific alert was triggered, do a plausibility check on the transactions and see if they align with the expected behavior of the customer, and log your findings in detail;
• Searching in public sources for information regarding the customer, verifying if all the information is up-to-date, and determining the appropriate risk profile for the customer;
• Having contact with customers regarding remarkable transactions and client information;
• Making sure that all processes are compliant with laws and regulations;
• Work closely together with the TM professionals within all branches of LYNX.

Are you the one we’re looking for?

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree (preferably in Finance, Law, or Criminology)
• Approximately 1.5–2 years of experience in Transaction Monitoring
• Solid understanding of AML regulations and financial crime risks
• Knowledge of investment products and financial markets
• Experience with customer communication and documentation requests
• Strong analytical and investigative skills

This is what we offer:

This role at LYNX is the perfect opportunity to give your career in the financial world a boost. We offer:

• a pension scheme fully paid by LYNX;
• public transport travel allowance;
• home office equipment and home office allowance;
• continuous growth potential, including a personal training budget of € 2,000 per year to invest at your own discretion;
• daily lunch from our chef, beverages & fruit, Friday drinks at our own bar;
• trips & activities with your marvelous colleagues (whom, by the way, are the reason that in this role we expect you to be amidst the people; remote working is possible but only limited).

About LYNX

The best choice for anyone who takes investing seriously

LYNX is an online broker established in 2006 that offers execution-only services to investors throughout Europe. Clients of LYNX can trade worldwide in stocks, options, forex, futures, and similar exchange-listed securities and derivatives via the IB platform. The focus of LYNX is in particular on the experienced and more active investor. LYNX has offices in four European cities (Amsterdam, Ghent, Berlin, and Prague), in which more than 65.000 clients are serviced across the Netherlands, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, France, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland. LYNX is supervised by the Autoriteit Financiële Markten (Authority Financial Markets, ‘AFM’) and De Nederlandsche Bank (Dutch Central Bank, ‘DNB’).

For the execution of orders and the holding of an investment account, an agreement stands with Interactive Brokers (IB). IB is a subsidiary of the IBKR Group (a US-based global player in the field of online brokerage), which is listed on NASDAQ and has a market capitalization of around $22 billion. Due to the collaboration with IB, investors can execute their orders against low commissions via a state-of-the-art platform with useful trading tools. The investment services that LYNX provides consist of receiving and forwarding orders to Interactive Brokers Limited (hereinafter ‘IB’). This is referred to as an execution-only service.

We’re an equal-opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates without attention to gender identity/expression, age, racial, ethnic and cultural background, religion and beliefs, sexual orientation/identity, disability or neurodiversity.