Team Lead Anti-Financial Crime Operations (Fintech)

Location: Hybrid work from offices in Berlin or Munich, Germany. International relocation support is provided if required, and there is an opportunity to work from abroad.

Company

hirify.global is a digital investment and banking platform with a full banking licence, offering brokerage, wealth management, savings, lending, private equity, and exchange services across Europe.

What you will do

• Mentor and empower a team of Anti-Financial Crime experts, supporting professional growth and knowledge transfer.
• Review and triage complex, high-risk transaction alerts and investigations before escalation to the 2nd Line.
• Own the quality assurance framework and ensure adherence to investigation standards and SLAs in a high-volume environment.
• Coordinate with 1st Line, 2nd Line, Product, Data, and Engineering teams to improve compliance workflows, tooling, and automation.
• Identify emerging money laundering, terrorist financing, and financial crime trends and refine operational controls and investigation procedures.

Requirements

• Several years of experience in an Anti-Money-Laundering or Anti-Financial Crime operational role within fintech, payments, banking, or a comparable environment.
• Deep understanding of money laundering, terrorist financing typologies, suspicious activities, and operational risk controls.
• Prior experience in people leadership and managing AFC Operations experts in a high-volume environment.
• Ability to lead operational teams against clear SLAs, quality standards, and client outcome metrics while exercising sound judgment under pressure.
• Experience improving operational processes, documentation, QA frameworks, tooling, and automation in partnership with Product, Data, and Engineering.
• Strong ownership and the ability to act as an escalation point for complex, ambiguous, or high-severity cases.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills across Operations, Product, Engineering, Data, Compliance, and client-facing teams.
• Excellent communication skills in English and German.

Culture & Benefits

• International, diverse, and inclusive working environment.
• Latest hardware and tools.
• Knowledge-sharing and career development sessions with an individual education budget.
• Free German language classes.
• Attractive compensation package and company pension scheme.
• Deutschland Jobticket contribution, PRIME+ Broker subscription, and discounted sports activities through Urban Sports Club.