Senior AML Compliance Data Specialist

About the role

Adyen is looking for a senior AML compliance data specialist to join its AML Compliance Analytics team in Amsterdam. You will work at the intersection of financial crime typologies, data and analytics, shaping risk scenarios and defending controls across the global transaction‑monitoring framework.

Key responsibilities

• Design and draft financial‑crime risk scenarios that define the coverage of transaction monitoring.
• Challenge the First Line on detection methods, approve framework changes as risk owner, and provide strategic guidance.
• Draft and review procedures, guidelines and technical model documentation with clear regulatory rationale.
• Support new product launches by assessing risks to the existing framework and managing required changes.
• Create validation tools, run data analyses and drive continuous improvement of the global monitoring framework.
• Represent and defend controls to Model Validation, Internal Audit and regulators, and own remediation of findings.
• Align diverse stakeholders and represent Second Line AML Compliance in cross‑functional workstreams.

Required profile

• 5+ years of experience in AML, financial crime or compliance analytics.
• Proven track record developing, tuning or advising on FEC risk scenarios and transaction‑monitoring frameworks.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, able to influence engineers, regulators and commercial teams.
• Comfortable forming and defending views under scrutiny and holding sign‑off as risk owner.
• Data‑savvy, hands‑on with large datasets and able to generate insights independently.
• Fluent in English with full professional proficiency.

Required skills

• Python
• PySpark
• Looker