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Scalable Capital, a leading European fintech and digital banking 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 escalation point for complex, high-risk transaction reviews and case investigations
- Owning the QA framework to ensure 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
- Leading operational teams against clear SLAs, quality standards, and client outcome metrics
- Improving operational processes, documentation, QA frameworks, and automation in partnership with cross-functional teams
- Managing stakeholder alignment across Operations, Product, Engineering, Data, Compliance, and client-facing teams
The role offers relocation support, flexible work-from-abroad opportunities, an attractive compensation package, company pension scheme, 50% Deutschland Jobticket contribution, complimentary PRIME+ Broker subscription, and access to Urban Sports Club discounts.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Several years of experience in Anti-Money-Laundering/Anti-Financial Crime operational roles within fintech, payments, banking, or comparable environments
- Deep understanding of money laundering and terrorist financing typologies, suspicious activities, and operational controls to mitigate these risks
- Prior experience in people leadership and managing AFC Operations experts in high-volume environments
- 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 cross-functional teams around priorities and improvements
- Excellent communication skills in English and German to lead the team effectively
