Senior Data Analyst (Compliance Officer - Transaction Monitoring, AML/CTF)

About the Position

We are looking for a Senior Data Analyst (Compliance Officer - Transaction Monitoring, AML/CTF) to join Deutsche Börse Group in Prague, CZ. This role is integral to our Compliance Function, ensuring adherence to national and international laws and regulations. As a Compliance Officer, you will analyze financial transaction data to detect, investigate, and prevent suspicious activities, including money laundering, terrorist financing, fraud, and other financial crimes.

Responsibilities

• Analyze large and complex financial transaction datasets to identify trends, patterns, anomalies, and potential financial crime risks using Python and SQL.
• Support the design, calibration, and ongoing optimization of transaction monitoring rules, thresholds, and scenarios.
• Implement, and improve processes, and guidelines within the monitoring team in accordance with regulations (especially, but not limited to Anti Money Laundering/Terrorism Financing and Fraud).
• Support data-driven tuning exercises and provide evidence-based recommendations for improvements.
• Analyze monitoring results to optimize the false/positive ratio.
• Contribute to cross-functional initiatives, projects, and enhancements related to transaction monitoring and analytics.
• Support regulatory, internal audit, and external audit requests by preparing analyses, metrics, and documentation.
• Be involved in meetings with the business to discuss and identify new relevant typologies.
• Create and maintain documentation to fulfill audit requirements.
• Maintain and improve the relationship with expert departments within the legal entities, including internal and external stakeholders.
• Work closely with the Money Laundering Reporting Officer and prepare potential filing of SARs.
• Monitor and analyze regulatory requirements and support the team in implementing relevant internal rules, standards, processes, and guidelines.
• Act as a central point of assistance for external requests from authorities and answer those in German.
• Offer advisory for the investigation team, development of the investigation decision matrices.

Requirements

• Minimum of five years of professional experience in data analysis in the financial market and experience working with large datasets and complex data structures in regulated environments.
• University degree in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, or comparable qualifications.
• Familiarity with data analysis and statistical methods.
• Knowledge and comfort with change and release management, including requirements management.
• Relevant experience as a data analyst in the financial services sector, preferably in transaction monitoring, financial crime, AML/CTF, or fraud analytics. Knowledge about settlement business will be a plus.
• Profound knowledge of relevant regulatory legislations and requirements in the field of German and EU regulations (KWG, GWG, AMLR, etc.) and solid understanding of transaction monitoring concepts and financial crime risks.
• Very strong analytic skills and sound knowledge in data analyses, SQL, and Python. Databricks is a plus.
• General technical understanding of software architecture and networks.
• Strong writing, conceptual, and methodological skills, ability to communicate complex analytical results clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Structured, methodical, and documentation-oriented working style.
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in cross-functional teams.
• Proficiency in written and spoken English and German.

We Offer

• Hybrid Work and Flexible working hours
• Work from abroad - 12 days of remote work from EU countries per year
• Pension fund contribution - 3% of your gross salary (5% after 5 years with us)
• Health & Wellbeing - fully covered Multisport card, life & accident insurance, sick days, and 100% salary contribution during sick leave (up to 56 days)
• 25 vacation days
• Mobility - fully covered public transport in Prague & free parking
• Flexible Benefit Account (Pluxee) - 1200 per month
• Group Share Plan - discount on company shares
• Free Access to E-Learning Platforms, Internal Development Programs, Mentoring & Learning Budget... and way more!

About the Company

Deutsche Börse Group is a leading global financial market infrastructure provider, offering a wide range of services and products to the financial industry. Our commitment to innovation, reliability, and excellence drives us to continuously improve and adapt to the evolving needs of our clients and the market.

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