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HeadHunters Hub

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2021

💼 Consulting

⚖️ Legal

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Legal • Marketing

HeadHunters Hub is a specialized recruitment firm focused on matching growing FinTech teams across Europe with senior and specialist talent. The company provides transparent, proactive hiring services for clients—delivering curated shortlists, replacing hires who don’t pass probation, and reducing hiring risk—and offers candidates personalized support, access to hidden roles, and honest guidance through the hiring process. HeadHunters Hub operates a career site and handles roles ranging from executive leadership (CEO, CCO/MLRO) to compliance and AML positions, often supporting hybrid and remote placements.

📋 Description

• Conduct end-to-end KYC and KYB reviews for individual, corporate, and institutional clients onboarding to the OTC desk • Verify legal entities, ownership structures, UBOs, source of funds, and source of wealth documentation in line with internal policy and regulatory expectations • Assess customer risk and assign onboarding risk ratings using the company’s AML framework and jurisdiction-specific risk indicators • Perform periodic reviews, trigger event reviews, and remediation of existing client files to maintain complete and accurate compliance records • Review sanctions, PEP, and adverse media screening results and document clear, risk-based decisions • Investigate alerts generated by transaction monitoring, wallet screening, and blockchain analytics tools across fiat and digital asset flows • Escalate unusual activity, high-risk clients, and red-flag cases to senior compliance stakeholders, including the MLRO, with concise case summaries • Support the preparation of internal suspicious activity case files and contribute to SAR/STR drafting where required • Respond to RFIs and compliance questionnaires from banks, liquidity providers, and other counterparties in a timely and professional manner • Maintain strong audit trails across compliance systems and help improve control effectiveness, alert handling, and onboarding workflows

🎯 Requirements

• 1-3 years of experience in AML, KYC, KYB, or financial crime compliance within FinTech and crypto • Good working knowledge of AML/CFT principles, customer due diligence, sanctions screening, and risk-based onboarding • Exposure to corporate structures, beneficial ownership analysis, and higher-risk customer profiles • Hands-on experience with screening, case management, or transaction monitoring tools • Fluent English, both written and spoken • Strong attention to detail and the ability to investigate anomalies using incomplete or fragmented information • Ability to manage priorities independently while maintaining quality, documentation standards, and turnaround times

🏖️ Benefits

• A fully remote role within a fast-paced digital assets and OTC trading environment • Meaningful exposure to institutional clients, complex onboarding cases, and real-world financial crime investigations • Strong learning potential at the intersection of traditional finance, crypto, and cross-border compliance • Professional development support, including compliance certifications and ongoing skill-building • A modern, international, tech-driven culture with close collaboration across distributed teams • Competitive compensation with performance-related upside • The chance to grow into a broader AML, investigations, or compliance operations role as the business scales