Senior Data Analyst (Compliance Officer - Transaction Monitoring, AML/CTF) (f/m/d)

Location: Prague, Czech Republic; hybrid work. Remote work from EU countries is available for 12 days per year.

Company

hirify.global operates an international financial-market infrastructure and provides compliance oversight across its group entities and business activities.

What you will do

• Analyze large and complex financial transaction datasets with Python and SQL to identify trends, anomalies, suspicious activity, and financial crime risks.
• Design, calibrate, tune, and optimize transaction monitoring rules, thresholds, scenarios, and decision matrices.
• Improve monitoring processes and guidelines in line with AML/CTF, fraud, and other regulatory requirements.
• Analyze monitoring results, reduce false-positive ratios, and provide evidence-based recommendations.
• Prepare analyses, metrics, documentation, and responses for regulatory, internal, external audit, and authority requests, including German-language responses.
• Collaborate with compliance, risk, business, technology, investigation, legal-entity, and external stakeholders; support typology identification, investigations, and potential SAR filings.

Requirements

• At least five years of professional experience in data analysis within financial markets, including work with large datasets and complex data structures in regulated environments.
• University degree in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, or a comparable qualification.
• Experience with data analysis and statistical methods, plus strong analytical skills and solid knowledge of SQL and Python.
• Relevant financial-services experience, preferably in transaction monitoring, financial crime, AML/CTF, or fraud analytics.
• Profound knowledge of German and EU regulatory requirements, including KWG, GWG, and AMLR, and a solid understanding of transaction monitoring concepts and financial crime risks.
• Knowledge of change and release management, including requirements management.
• General technical understanding of software architecture and networks.
• Strong writing, conceptual, and methodological skills, with the ability to communicate complex analytical results to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Structured, methodical, documentation-oriented, independent, and collaborative working style in a multicultural, multilocation, matrix organization.
• Proficiency in written and spoken English and German.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of settlement business.
• Experience with Databricks.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work and flexible working hours.
• Remote work from EU countries for up to 12 days per year.
• Pension contribution of 3% of gross salary, increasing to 5% after five years.
• Fully covered Multisport card, life and accident insurance, sick days, and 100% salary contribution during sick leave for up to 56 days.
• 25 vacation days, covered public transport in Prague, free parking, and a flexible Pluxee benefit account.
• Group share plan, e-learning platforms, internal development programs, mentoring, and learning budget.