Senior Financial Crime Operations Specialist (AFC)

About the role

As the sole dedicated AFC Operations specialist in the first line of defence, you will shape the financial crime operating model from the ground up. You will own hands-on operations while building the processes, controls, and workflows needed to support a growing regulated business. This role involves close collaboration with the MLRO, Product, and Engineering teams to ensure AFC controls are effective, scalable, and audit-ready.

Responsibilities

• Own hands-on AFC operations across transaction monitoring, customer screening, Source of Wealth reviews, investigations and regulatory information requests.
• Make risk-based decisions and collaborate with the MLRO and Second Line of Defence on escalations and suspicious activity reporting.
• Build and maintain the AFC operating model by translating regulatory requirements and risk assessments into clear controls, workflows, and audit-ready documentation.
• Improve and optimise AFC processes and workflows, identifying opportunities to reduce manual effort and increase operational efficiency through automation.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to define operational requirements and implement practical workflow and tooling improvements.
• Manage stakeholders across Customer Lifecycle, Product, Engineering, Operations, and external partners, acting as the main AFC subject-matter expert.

Required skills

• Financial crime operations
• AFC operations
• German
• English
• Process documentation
• Transaction monitoring
• Customer screening
• goAML
• Stakeholder management

Qualifications

• Substantial hands-on experience in financial crime or AFC operations within a regulated financial-services, fintech, banking, payments or investment environment.

Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• Annual learning budget
• Deutschlandticket
• 50% off on Beatvest
• Workation

About the Company

lemon.markets is a Brokerage-as-a-Service platform providing digital access to capital markets through a single API. As part of the dwpbank Group, the company combines long-standing financial expertise with a technology-first mindset to help financial service providers launch compliant investment products.