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Scalable Capital, a leading European fintech and digital investment platform with over one million clients and €50 billion in assets under management, is seeking a Team Lead for Anti-Financial Crime Operations in Berlin.
In this role, you will lead and mentor a team of Anti-Financial Crime (AFC) experts, fostering their professional development and transferring deep industry knowledge. You will serve as the primary escalation point for reviewing and triaging complex, high-risk transaction-based alerts and case investigations before routing to the 2nd Line compliance team.
Key responsibilities include:
- Mentoring and empowering AFC experts with continuous coaching and professional growth opportunities
- Acting as the primary escalation point for complex, high-risk transaction reviews and case investigations
- Ensuring operational excellence through full ownership of the QA framework, maintaining strict adherence to investigation standards and SLAs in a high-volume environment
- Serving as strategic liaison between 1st Line, 2nd Line, Product, Data, and Engineering teams to optimize workflows, tooling, and process automation
- Identifying emerging money laundering, terrorist financing, and financial crime trends to proactively refine operational controls and investigation procedures
- Leading operational teams against clear SLAs, quality standards, and client outcome metrics while maintaining strong judgment under pressure
- Improving operational processes, documentation, QA frameworks, tooling, and automation in partnership with cross-functional teams
The role offers the opportunity to work with an international, diverse team at a fast-growing fintech startup with substantial impact. You will have access to the latest hardware and tools, flexible work arrangements with the option to work from abroad, and a comprehensive benefits package including relocation support, education budget, German language classes, and complimentary Scalable Capital PRIME+ Broker subscription.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Several years of experience in an Anti-Money-Laundering/Anti-Financial Crime operational role within fintech, payments, banking, or comparable environment
- Deep understanding of money laundering and terrorist financing typologies, suspicious activities, and operational controls required to mitigate these risks
- Prior experience in people leadership and managing AFC Operations experts in a high-volume environment
- Proven ability to lead operational teams against clear SLAs, quality standards, and client outcome metrics while maintaining strong judgment under pressure
- Experience improving operational processes, documentation, QA frameworks, tooling, and automation in partnership with Product, Data, and Engineering
- Strong sense of ownership and ability to act as credible escalation point for complex, ambiguous, or high-severity cases
- Excellent stakeholder management skills and ability to align Operations, Product, Engineering, Data, Compliance, and client-facing teams
- Excellent communication skills in English and German to lead the team effectively
