Compliance Analyst
Keep onboarding, monitoring and reporting defensible without turning a five-minute sign-up into a fortnight.
Amsterdam · Hybrid, three days in office · Full-time
Salary band · published
€54,000 – €66,000
EUR per year · Mid · IC3
Role at a glance
- Team
- Finance & operations
- Reports to
- Peter Møller, Head of Compliance
- Level
- Mid · IC3
- Location
- Amsterdam, three days a week in the office
- Band
- €54,000 – €66,000 EUR per year
- Equity
- Options in the offer, four-year schedule
- Start
- From October 2026
About the role
Finly is a technology provider rather than a bank, and payment services sit with licensed partners — but the obligations that come with moving other people's money reach us anyway, through those partners and through the customers we onboard.
You would be the second person in compliance. The job is the ordinary work — onboarding review, monitoring alerts, periodic reporting — plus the less ordinary part of writing the rules down clearly enough that engineering can build them rather than route every case to a human.
What you'll do
- Review business onboarding and the ownership structures behind it.
- Work the monitoring queue and decide what escalates and what does not.
- Prepare the periodic reporting our banking partners ask for, on their schedule.
- Turn a policy into a rule an engineer can implement, then check what they built.
- Keep the register of decisions current, so a reviewer can see why a case went the way it did.
What you'll bring
- Two or more years in AML, KYC or financial-crime compliance at a regulated firm or its supplier.
- Working knowledge of European AML obligations and what a partner bank will ask for.
- The judgement to escalate the right things and close the rest with a written reason.
- Precision in writing — a decision is only defensible if someone can read it a year later.
- Working English; Dutch is useful and is not required.
Nice to have
- Have been on the other side of a partner-bank audit.
- Comfortable enough with SQL to answer your own question about a queue.
- Experience with a transaction monitoring system you would like to complain about.
How we hire
Four steps, and a decision either way.
The same four for every role.No take-home that eats a weekend, and no round that exists to see whether you will put up with another round.
- Intro
A thirty-minute call
With the hiring manager, never a recruiter. You ask about the work, we ask what you have actually owned.
Same week you apply
- Craft
One piece of real work
A ninety-minute exercise taken from our own backlog — paid at your day rate if you would rather it were.
90 minutes, paid
- Team
Meet the three people
The ones you would sit beside, including whoever would review your code or sign off your ledger.
Two hours, one day
- Offer
A yes or a reason
A yes carries the band and the start date. A no carries why. Nobody is left to work it out from silence.
Inside two weeks
Benefits
Eight things you get on day one.
The same eight in Amsterdam and Lisbon.Nothing here is discretionary and nothing is a perk you have to ask twice for.
- Salary band, published
- Every advert carries its range. The same band in both cities, adjusted only for local tax.
- Equity in every offer
- Options on a four-year schedule with a one-year cliff, and ten years to exercise them.
- Three days in, two out
- Tuesday to Thursday in the office. Nobody schedules a meeting on the other two.
- Thirty days off
- Plus public holidays where you work, and the week between Christmas and New Year.
- Pension and health cover
- Employer pension contribution and full health insurance in both the Netherlands and Portugal.
- €2,000 a year to learn
- Conferences, courses and books. The budget renews each January and needs no approval under €500.
- Twenty weeks parental leave
- Fully paid, whichever parent you are, with a phased return across the month after it.
- A month in the other city
- Flights and a flat covered, once a year, in whichever office is not your own.
Apply
Send it and we will read it.
A CV or a link is enough —no cover letter, no form with fourteen fields.Every application gets a reply from the hiring manager, including the ones that are a no.