Senior AML & Sanctions Processing Specialist / AML & Sanctions Processing Specialist

Job ID: 23097 

It’s an exciting time for you to join us. We’re a changing company with big ambitions and together we’ll create the future of banking. Working with us, you will play a part in building a better bank that fulfils a meaningful role in society. We aim to help our 10 million customers around the world improve their lives and reach their goals. To do that, we are embedding compliance across the organization to ensure people can trust Nordea.  
 

Interested in coming on the journey with us?   
 

About this opportunity

We are expanding our KYC-Team in Copenhagen, Denmark. As a KYC Specialist for Large Corporates, you will work as part of the dedicated Customer Due Diligence Analytics team, concentrating on Nordea Large Corporates & Institutions (LC&I). The team is responsible for all elements of the Know Your Customer (KYC) for LC&I and is part of the wider Anti-Money Laundering /Counter Terrorist Financing (AML/CTF) value chain.  
 

To enable Nordea´s Danish LC&I Business Unit to be able to assess the customer risk, your tasks would include gathering the primary customer information from our customers, assess Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), assess Sanctions related risks, perform analyses of transactions and perform Ongoing Due Diligence on our portfolio of customers securing high quality in customer due diligence processes. As a part of your career plan, more complex customer directed activities would be added to portfolio of tasks. All the above tasks have the purpose of evaluating customer cases and related AML/CTF risks and thereby assisting the customer responsible units to understand and manage financial crime related risk.   
 

What we are offering is a challenging position in an international field of Fight Against Financial Crime. As the Specialist you will have a great opportunity not only to develop your professional skills, but also advance in your career.  

We have a flexible working environment where we offer employees to work up to 2 days a week from remote/home and minimum 3 days at Hermes Hus (Nordea Office in Taastrup) and at the same time we are also focusing on ensuring collaboration, continuous knowledge sharing and facilitating a steep learning curve for new colleagues.   

What you’ll be doing:

• Safeguard the largest and most complex Danish Corporate customers and Nordea from ever-growing threats in a complex and global environment
• Evaluate complex customer cases and related AML/CTF risks, and assist LC&I front-line to manage financial crime related risk
• Secure high quality in customer due diligence, both when onboarding and ongoingly monitoring our customers
• Develop further in challenging and rapidly changing area

We offer you an inspiring and international working environment with dedicated, driven and professional colleagues. The role is based in at Hermes Hus (Nordea Office in Taastrup).

Who you are

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in being at our best – and that we imagine you share with us.  
 

To build a successful career with us, you will work well with our growing team in Copenhagen, but also with colleagues from both Nordic, Estonian and Global branches. You always act with the customers’ needs in mind. You love learning and trying new things and you are excited about bringing your ideas to the table. You are honest and dependable, willing to speak up even when it is difficult. You are committed to empowering others while feeling passionate about doing a great job.  
 

To qualify for this position, you should preferably have an educational background within Banking, Law, Finance, Economics, Science or IT or similar. Preferably experience working within Banking and Corporates in particular. Prior experience in AML/CTF, KYC, Transactions Monitoring and/or Sanctions and knowledge on Large Corporate & Institutional customers is highly valued, but as we are constantly reinforcing and diversifying the team, an applicant with a background in other related field or industry sector would certainly be considered. Due to the customer and stakeholder interaction, Danish language skills is a prerequisite for this position.

Candidates with strong academic results from University/Business School, but without substantial work experience, are also encouraged to apply. 

Your experience and background: 

• Understanding of the relevant regulatory landscape
• Minimum 2 years of relevant experience
• You have your permanent residency in Denmark
• Strong attention to details and ability to master direct customer interaction
• Excellent in both spoken and written English and preferably Danish. Language skills will bee part of screening process for candidates.
• Strong analytical skills topped with the gift of presenting complex matters, in clear and understandable form
• Capability to build relationships with key stakeholders on different organizational levels
• Curiosity to dig into details and tolerate routines, but also ability to put those details into a larger perspective
• Ambitious and focused on achieving results
• Capability to accept changing working environment fast, thus you can work independently with quality
• A Bachelor's or Master's degree is a benefit

If this sounds like you, get in touch! 
 

Next steps
 

Submit your application as soon as possible, but no later than 02/05/2024. For more information, you’re welcome to contact peter.bertram.storr.paulsen@nordea.com.

At Nordea, we know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable workplace. We deeply believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us better at serving customers and communities. So please come as you are.