Sanctions & Screening Compliance Senior Officer

EngineersOfAI; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Adyen is seeking a seasoned Sanctions & Screening professional to validate models, oversee controls, and guide a scalable framework. You will partner across Compliance, Data, and Engineering to ensure robust data governance and compliant product launches.

You bring at least 5 years of experience, strong regulatory literacy, and the ability to translate complex guidance into actionable processes and training.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in sanctions and/or screening frameworks (or equivalent).
• Strong regulatory literacy with ability to parse complex guidance papers.
• Excellent organizational and project management capabilities.
• Strong communication with both technical and business teams.

Responsibilities

• Inform, advise, and independently challenge the business on sanctions and screening matters.
• Draft and review procedures, guidelines, and technical model documentation.
• Support product launches with risk assessments and screening controls.
• Create validation tools and perform data analyses to improve the framework.
• Collaborate with Compliance Data and Engineering for data governance.
• Lead 2nd Line escalation for high‑complexity investigations and relationships with regulators.
• Represent the AML Compliance team across workstreams to ensure compliant growth.

Skills

Sanctions frameworks

Regulatory literacy

Project management

Communication skills

Job description

This is Adyen

Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition.

For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.

Build the Future of Sanctions & Screening at Adyen

Adyen’s Sanctions & Screening function is entering a critical phase. With a solid foundation in place, we're now scaling our framework to support Adyen’s global expansion and evolving product landscape. To lead this effort, we’ve established a focused, high-impact team.

Do you have a builder’s mindset?

Are you driven by the opportunity to shape, challenge, and improve? In this role, you’ll validate models, oversee first-line controls, provide expert guidance, assess complex risk and help design a sanctions and screening framework that’s scalable, effective, and best-in-class.

Join our Sanctions & Screening Compliance team and make your expertise count - where compliance meets innovation, and your work creates real impact.

What you’ll do

• Inform, advise, and independently challenge the business on matters relating to Sanctions & Screening and the use of different tools to perform it;


• Draft and review procedures, guidelines, and technical model documentation;


• Support new product launches through risk assessments and design of new screening controls or methods;


• Create validation tools/processes and perform thematic data analysis to drive improvements to the sanction & screening framework;


• Partner with Compliance Data and Engineering teams to ensure robust data governance, ensuring end-to-end data lineage and completeness across payment flows to eliminate systemic detection blindspots;


• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders, such as model validation, internal audit, and relevant regulators and supervisors;


• Serve as a key 2nd Line escalation point for high-complexity Sanctions investigations, conducting deep-dives into nested corporate structures, ultimate beneficial ownership (UBO), and potential sanctions circumvention risks;


• Guide and independently challenge Sanctions Product & Tech on model ownership and system implementations, while providing proactive guidance, process alignment, and training to 1st Line Screening teams;


• Represent the wider AML Compliance team on a variety of workstreams to establish strategies that align with global objectives and ensure controlled and compliant growth (e.g. how outcomes of screening checks should be considered in the context of customer risk classification); and,


• Strengthen knowledge management on Sanctions, data, and screening tools across the global business.

Who you are

• You have a proven track record with at least 5 years’ experience in developing or advising on sanctions and/or other screening frameworks, or equivalent experience (working with development/analytical teams in a compliance setting);


• You will have a proven track record of handling complex Sanctions and Financial Crime investigations and possess strong regulatory literacy, with the ability to confidently parse complex legal documentation and guidance papers;


• You have excellent organizational skills and know how to manage a project from conception to launch;


• You are a quick learner and take a ‘launch fast and iterate’ approach to tackling problems; and,


• You have strong communication skills and can work well with both technical and commercial teams.

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