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Team Lead, MLROs

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🇵🇹 Portugal – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

✨ Team Lead

🗣️🇧🇷🇵🇹 Portuguese Required

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Posted on Finom's careers page, not through a job board

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Finom

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2019

💳 Fintech

💸 Finance

🤝 B2B

Fintech • Finance • B2B

Finom is a fintech company offering comprehensive financial services for SMEs, freelancers, and companies. The platform provides tools for invoicing, expense management, and easy online account opening with added benefits like cashback and international IBAN accounts. Finom ensures data security through partnerships with banks like SolarisBank and Treezor, making it a fast and reliable service for business financial management.

📋 Description

• Represent Finom before the Bank of Portugal on AML matters and other relevant Portuguese authorities as Head of Branch • Build the Portuguese AML framework by adapting group policy to Portuguese law and establishing local processes • Own CDD and Transaction Monitoring policies and procedures in Portugal • Define SAR reporting requirements in Portugal • Define and implement reporting requirements to Portuguese authorities on integrity and non-integrity matters with Regulatory Reporting • Provide Portugal-specific insight on fraud, money laundering and sanctions-evasion typologies • Work with Risk Management to develop rules, scenarios and controls for Finom's FinCrime Risk Engine • Act as second-line decision-maker on complex, high-risk cases escalated by the first line • Contribute to Enterprise-Wide Risk Assessment and Product Risk Approvals • Guide the first line on CDD and Transaction Monitoring, maintain procedures and manuals, and run internal AML training • Lead, coach and develop MLROs and Deputy MLROs across EU branches • Establish shared MLRO playbooks, templates, escalation criteria, SAR decision standards and regulator communication practices • Drive group-wide process improvements • Serve as main contact for Product, Operations, Regulatory Compliance, Regulatory Reporting and other functions for the MLRO network • Own MLRO-related KRIs and report to the Management Board Risk Committee • Coordinate regulatory inspections, authority requests and remediation actions

🎯 Requirements

• Right to work in Portugal • Native Portuguese speaker • At least 4 years in the second line of defence at a regulated payment, e-money or banking institution • At least 2 years as MLRO or Deputy MLRO for Portuguese branches • At least 2 years of people management experience • Excellent knowledge of Portuguese AML legislation • Thorough understanding of the EU AML, Sanctions and Risk Management framework • Proven direct experience with regulators, including the Bank of Portugal • Proactive, start-up mindset; ability to identify issues, involve stakeholders, and drive solutions independently • Nice to have: experience with data analytics tools, databases and AI tools

🏖️ Benefits

• €115 million Series C equity round and approximately $346 million total company funding mentioned, but no role-specific compensation or benefits stated • Inspiring work environment where bold ideas thrive • Opportunity to make a meaningful impact for users, employees, partners, and the business

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