Team Lead Anti-Financial Crime (Sanctions & Investigations)

Team Lead Anti-Financial Crime (Sanctions & Investigations) at Qonto in Paris, France.

Role Summary

Join us as Team Lead, Sanctions Screening to lead 6 financial crime analysts, responsible for processing sanctions alerts, hitting regulatory deadlines, and building the operating rigor this function needs, as part of a broader restructuring of our sanctions organization following Qonto's ACPR mission.

Responsibilities

• Manage a production team's backlog and alert volumes, ensuring processing deadlines are consistently met without compromising decision quality.
• Prioritize daily workload across the team, spot inconsistencies in case handling, and adjust before they become bottlenecks.
• Run team rituals and weekly one-to-ones, providing the structure and day-to-day direction the team needs to operate with cohesion.
• Produce regular reporting on alert volumes, backlog, and screening incidents for internal stakeholders and authorities.
• Contribute operational feedback to migration and treatment-optimization projects, including AI integration.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner with AML, Fraud to ensure alignment and knowledge sharing;
• Risk Escalation Management: Oversee the investigation of escalations from the transaction monitoring team and ensure timely resolution.

Requirements

• Experience: You have at least 5 years of experience in AML, Anti-Financial Crime, or Compliance , preferably within a Fintech or banking industry, with at least 1 years in a leadership role;
• Management Skills: You have proven experience managing, mentoring, and developing team members, with the ability to drive performance while maintaining morale;
• Analytical Excellence: You have a logical mind capable of analyzing complex datasets, identifying patterns, and conducting thorough investigations of sophisticated financial crime schemes;
• Quality Focus: You have demonstrated ability to deliver and validate high standards of quality across multiple cases and team members;
• Regulatory Knowledge: You have deep understanding of AML/CFT regulations, suspicious transaction reporting requirements, and experience working with financial intelligence units;
• Leadership & Collaboration: You thrive in leading teams within a collaborative environment and can work effectively across multicultural teams to address complex compliance challenges;
• Language: You have native french and are fluent in English.

➡️ What we can offer you

• Leadership Opportunity: Build and lead a high-performing team in a critical function for Qonto's French market;
• Dynamic Growth Environment: Work in a fast-paced, scaling fintech environment with significant strategic impact;
• Team Context: Lead a strategic team that values quality, depth of analysis, and continuous learning;
• Collaborative Culture: Join a supportive environment that encourages innovation, with great managers who value curiosity and development;
• Methodology: Work with advanced tools and processes unique to Qonto, leveraging continuous improvement frameworks;
• Exposure to AI-driven treatment-optimization and migration projects, with real operational input even though you won't own these initiatives directly.
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