AML Risk Manager at Swedbank

About the Position

AML Risk Manager at Swedbank

Are you interested in strategic risk assessments and risk management within Anti Money Laundering, Counter Terrorist Financing and Financial Sanctions (AML/CTF/FS)? Join Swedbank and lead enterprise-wide risk assessments by identifying inherent risks, evaluating controls, and recommending risk mitigating actions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and contribute to enterprise-wide risk assessments within AML, CTF, and Financial Sanctions by identifying inherent risks, evaluating controls, and recommending risk mitigating actions.
• Conduct thematic risk analyses and identify opportunities to strengthen the bank’s financial crime prevention framework.
• Perform ad hoc risk assessments and support effective management and mitigation of identified risks.
• Collaborate with colleagues across the organization in strategic and operational AML/CTF initiatives and projects.
• Partner with business stakeholders to assess and manage complex financial crime risks in a dynamic environment.
• Participate in steering committees, working groups, and strategic projects, representing Economic Crime Prevention and ensuring financial crime risk considerations are integrated into key decisions.
• Drive strategic objectives through effective collaboration and stakeholder management across multiple business functions.
• Provide expert advice and support to product organizations, client-facing units, and senior stakeholders on AML and financial crime risk matters.
• Build strong partnerships across Group Functions and Business Areas to strengthen the bank’s financial crime risk management capabilities.

Requirements

• A bachelor's or master's degree in economics, law, or equivalent.
• Several years of experience in AML/CTF, financial sanctions, fraud, or risk management in banking, other financial institutions, or competent authorities.
• Knowledge and operational experience within the financial sector.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Ability to deliver quality in a fast-paced environment with complex questions, products, and clients.
• Positive, solution-oriented, and relation-building team player.
• Curious and questioning mindset.
• Good communicative skills and the ability to express yourself, orally and in writing, in Swedish and English.

We Offer

• Personal and professional growth through self-leadership and continuous development.
• Meaningful work that positively impacts our workplace, our customers, and society.
• An open and collaborative culture that encourages cross-functional teamwork and provides networking opportunities.
• A supportive and inclusive environment that promotes a balanced and sustainable work-life, with flexible working conditions when suitable for the role.
• Benefits such as our share-based reward program Eken, company pension plan, employee offer for banking products, health insurance.

About the Company

We serve local communities, where we are proud to play an important role as being a key part of the financial system. We are dedicated to developing close relationships with about 7.3 million private and 553,000 corporate customers. Our passion is to help people save for a better future. We work every day to support people, businesses, and society to grow by promoting a healthy and sustainable economy.

Location: Sundbyberg, Sweden

Recruiting manager: Marcus Lundgren

Swedbank does not discriminate based on gender, age, sexual orientation or sexual identity, ethnicity, religion, or disability – everybody is welcome.

Due to the holiday period, the selection and interview process will begin in August. Thank you for your patience, and we warmly welcome your application.

We would like to let you know that a background check and a drug test may be a part of the process for this role.

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