Senior AML Analytics Leader: Data-Driven Risk & Compliance

adyen; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Adyen is seeking a Senior AML Compliance Analytics Expert in Amsterdam to lead global transaction monitoring design and oversight. You will challenge First Line controls, shape risk scenarios, and defend analytical choices with regulators and internal audit.

You will work with a diverse, global team to balance speed with regulatory rigor and own end-to-end analyses from data extraction to evidence-driven recommendations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in AML, Financial Crime, or Compliance Analytics; depth matters more than exact tenure.
• Proven track record in developing, tuning, or advising on FEC risk scenarios and transaction monitoring frameworks.
• A go-getter who owns end-to-end, navigating ambiguity and competing priorities with minimal oversight.
• A strong stakeholder manager, credible with engineers, regulators, and commercial teams alike; you talk straight without being rude.
• Comfortable forming and defending your own view under scrutiny, and holding sign-off as a risk owner.
• Data-savvy and hands-on: you dig into large datasets yourself in Python/PySpark to generate your own insights, and use Looker to turn them into the evidence that convinces your stakeholders.
• Energized by a launch-fast-and-iterate environment, balancing speed with regulatory rigor.
• Full professional proficiency in English.

Responsibilities

• FEC scenario design: Draft FEC risk scenarios that define the financial crime risks that our transaction monitoring must cover.
• Strategic challenge: Inform, advise, and independently challenge the First Line on the design, implementation, and effectiveness of detection methods, and ultimately approve changes to the transaction monitoring framework as risk owner.
• Technical governance: Draft and review procedures, guidelines, and technical model documentation, ensuring regulatory rationale for analytical choices is clearly defined.
• Risk-first product support: Support new product launches by assessing the risks to our current framework and managing any required changes.
• Analytical validation: Create validation tools and run data analysis to identify enhancements and drive continuous improvement of the global framework.
• Regulatory defense: Represent and defend our controls to Model Validation, Internal Audit, and regulators, and own remediation of findings.
• Global alignment: Align diverse stakeholders and represent Second Line AML Compliance in cross-functional workstreams that support controlled growth.

Skills

AML knowledge

Data analysis

Python

PySpark

Looker

Stakeholder management

Tools

Looker

Python

PySpark

Job description

Adyen is seeking a Senior AML Compliance Analytics Expert in Amsterdam to lead global transaction monitoring design and oversight. You will challenge First Line controls, shape risk scenarios, and defend analytical choices with regulators and internal audit.

You will work with a diverse, global team to balance speed with regulatory rigor and own end-to-end analyses from data extraction to evidence-driven recommendations.