Business Consultant - AML & Sanctions

Driven by our purpose ‘Banking for better, for generations to come’, we are committed to a sustainable, stable, and secure financial system. We want to be a reliable bank for our customers and society, for which we play an important role in the prevention of financial crime. As a 'gatekeeper,' we prevent, detect, and respond to potential financial crime risks. Our Detecting Financial Crime (DFC) department unites all efforts in financial crime detection.

By combining knowledge, expertise, and strengths across ABN AMRO Group, we are increasingly able to combat financial crime, leverage new technologies, and boost efficiency with innovative solutions. We invest in this area through partnerships with industry-leading vendors and public-private partnerships. At DFC, we thrive in a dynamic environment, always pushing the limits of our expertise and adaptability!

Your job

In this position, the AML/Sanctions domain and execution come together. What does this mean?

• Together with your direct colleagues and colleagues from Operations, IT, Business, Data Analysis, and Compliance, you work on deliverables to improve the AML/Sanctions domain. You are the linking pin between the business, operations, and IT.
• You work in a dynamic environment, where your expertise and hands-on mentality come together, resulting in designing and executing proposals to improve and innovate.
• Making an improvement happen means close alignment with relevant stakeholders. Your colleagues trust you on your expertise and persuasiveness, and you will present your progress to the relevant governance body.
• You will stay ‘end-to-end’ up-to-date: on changes in relevant laws or regulations, on new innovations, and internally to be able to oversee the AML/Sanctions domain, and to act upon significant changes.

Working environment

As part of DFC Innovation Design & Change, the Sanctions team focuses on sanctions-related elements in the DFC framework. The scope is client screening and transaction screening. This is expanding to correlated areas such as Sanctions Evasion, ESG, and Fraud. This first line of defence role acts groupwide as Centre of Expertise striving to make DFC more effective and efficient.

Your profile

• You have completed a Bachelor's or Master's degree in a financial direction.
• You have extensive working experience (at least 5 years) within AML, KYC, CDD, or FS (Sanctions domain is preferred).
• You move easily in a complex stakeholder field and possess excellent communicative skills (writing and verbally).
• You are change-oriented, work well in a dynamic environment, and acting on complex challenges and possibilities are your energizers.
• You are able to design and execute.
• CAMS-certification by ACAMS is preferred.

We are offering

Within DFC, continuous development is key and is something we find important, both work- and personal-related! We offer you the freedom to get the best out of yourself, to co-create the future of detecting financial crime, and to work with enthusiastic colleagues. We also offer:

• The gross monthly salary is based on a 36-hour work week and includes vacation pay and benefit budget. The position is open at Hay 10, but placement at Hay 11 or Hay 12 is also possible, depending on your work experience.
• The Benefit Budget is 11% of your salary. The Benefit Budget allows you to acquire additional employment benefits. If you make no purchases or reservations in the Benefit Shop in a given month, you are paid one twelfth of your Benefit Budget that month.
• Five weeks of vacation per year, with the option to purchase an additional four weeks per year.
• The DFC Academy facilitates training possibilities, and your personal development budget (€1,000 yearly) allows you to develop tailored expertise and/or skills, which you can accumulate up to €3,000.
• Possibility to work from home (in consultation with your team and depending on your position).
• An annual public transport pass with free public transportation throughout the Netherlands.
• An excellent pension scheme.

Interested?

Are you interested? Apply! For more information, please reach out to Ashwin Kartaram (DFC ID&C Sanctions Lead). We look forward to meeting you!

Equal opportunities for all

The success of our organization depends on the quality of our people and the ideas that they have. Truly surprising insights and innovative solutions for our clients result from an interplay of cultures, knowledge, and experience. Diversity is therefore extremely important to our organization. To ensure that everyone at ABN AMRO can develop their talents, we encourage an inclusive culture in which all colleagues feel engaged and appreciated.