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Salary: EUR 24,996 - 34,800 / annual
Yapily is a fintech company on a mission to enable innovative companies to create better and fairer financial services through open banking. We are seeking an AML Analyst to join our Financial Crime Compliance team in Vilnius.
In this role, you will be responsible for analyzing transaction monitoring alerts, investigating suspicious activity, conducting Know Your Customer (KYC) reviews, and supporting day-to-day operational compliance tasks. You will play a vital role in promoting effective financial crime compliance and ensuring the organization complies with relevant regulations across Lithuania, Europe, and the UK.
Key responsibilities include:
- Analyzing transaction monitoring alerts promptly and thoroughly, documenting findings in a timely manner
- Identifying and escalating suspicious customer activity or transactions to the Financial Crime Compliance Lead or MLRO
- Working closely with the Financial Crime Compliance Lead, Global Head of Compliance, Chief Compliance Officer, Product, and Engineering teams to test transaction monitoring rules and ensure their effectiveness
- Assisting in standardizing, automating, and improving the transaction monitoring framework and related processes
- Conducting initial and ongoing customer due diligence reviews and KYC checks as part of the customer onboarding process
- Handling customer relationship termination processes
- Conducting PEP, sanctions, and adverse media screenings
- Supporting the implementation of internal rules, standards, processes, and guidelines related to financial crime prevention
- Handling complaints from Payment Service Users (PSUs)
- Preparing weekly, monthly, and quarterly statistics and reports on transaction monitoring and key performance indicators
You will be expected to be flexible, adaptable, and willing to add value across different areas. In a scale-up environment, priorities change and you should be comfortable being a self-starter and instigating improvements.
The role is hybrid, based in Vilnius with a requirement to attend the office at least 2 days per week. There is also a nomad policy allowing you to work abroad for up to 30 days per year.
Requirements:
- Fluent in English with clear oral and written communication skills
- Minimum 1 year of relevant working experience as a compliance or anti-financial crime officer in a financial services institution
- Familiarity with transaction monitoring, onboarding systems, and other AML software tools
- Strong analytical skills with a data-driven mindset and attention to detail
- Commercial mindset—understanding how effective financial crime compliance positively impacts products, services, and business
- Problem-solving ability with composure under pressure and strong time management
- Commitment to quality outputs and attention to detail
- Can-do approach with ability to switch between tasks and manage multiple priorities
- Experience working in a fast-paced financial services environment
- Passion for innovation
- Exceptionally high integrity with ability to handle confidential and sensitive interactions with diplomacy
- Pragmatic, outside-the-box thinking with ability to iterate on best practices
- Driven and curious mindset with willingness to ask questions and understand deeply
- Ability to learn from stakeholders with different strengths and share expertise
