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Scalable Capital, a leading European fintech and digital banking platform with over €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
- 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
- Managing stakeholder alignment across Operations, Product, Engineering, Data, Compliance, and client-facing teams
The company offers flexible work arrangements with offices in Berlin and Munich, international relocation support, professional development budgets, German language classes, and an attractive compensation package including pension scheme, Deutschland Jobticket subsidy, complimentary PRIME+ Broker subscription, and discounted sports activities.
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
