Team Lead Anti-Financial Crime Operations (m/f/x)

Scalable Capital · Berlin, DE

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Full-timeLeadSept 2026 · checked today
  • You mentor and empower a team of AFC experts, fostering continuous professional growth, identifying coaching opportunities, and transferring your deep industry knowledge

  • You act as the primary escalation point for reviewing and triaging complex, high-risk transaction-based alerts and case investigations before routing them to the 2nd Line

  • You ensure operational excellence by taking full ownership of the QA framework, ensuring strict adherence to investigation standards and SLAs in a high-volume environment

  • You serve as the strategic liaison between 1st Line, 2nd Line, Product, Data, and Engineering teams to ensure compliance and to optimize workflows, tooling, and process automation

  • You continuously identify emerging money laundering, terrorist financing, and financial crime trends to proactively refine operational controls and investigation procedures

  • You have several years of experience in an Anti-Money-Laundering/Anti-Financial Crime related operational role within fintech, payments, banking, or a comparable environment

  • You bring a deep understanding of money laundering and terrorist financing typologies, as well as other suspicious activities, and the operational controls required to effectively mitigate these risks

  • You have prior experience in people leadership and managing AFC Operations experts in a high-volume environment

  • You have proven ability to lead operational teams against clear SLAs, quality standards, and client outcome metrics while maintaining strong judgment under pressure

  • You are experienced in improving operational processes, documentation, QA frameworks, tooling, and automation in partnership with Product, Data, and Engineering

  • You have a strong sense of ownership and the ability to act as a credible escalation point for complex, ambiguous, or high-severity cases

  • You have excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to align Operations, Product, Engineering, Data, Compliance, and client-facing teams around priorities and improvements

  • You have excellent communication skills in English and German to lead the team effectively

  • Be part of one of the fastest-growing and most visible Fintech startups in Europe, creating innovative services that have a substantial impact on the lives of our customers

  • Work with an international, diverse, inclusive, and ever-growing team that loves creating the best products for our clients

  • Work from our centrally located offices in the heart of Munich or Berlin, nestled in lively neighborhoods filled with vibrant restaurants, cozy cafés, and a wide range of convenient amenities

  • Be productive with the latest hardware and tools

  • Learn and grow by joining our in-house knowledge sharing or career development sessions and spending your individual Education Budget

  • Learn and experience German culture first hand by joining our free German language classes

  • International relocation support is provided if required

  • Opportunity to work from abroad

  • Benefit from an attractive compensation package and from the company pension scheme

  • Monthly contribution of 50% for the ‘Deutschland Jobticket’

  • Say goodbye to order commissions and say hello to your complimentary subscription of Scalable Capital's PRIME+ Broker

  • Enjoy flexible and discounted sports activities with Urban Sports Club