Job ID: 17239
It’s an exciting time for you to join us. We’re a changing company with big ambitions and together we’ll create the future of banking. Working with us, you will play a part in building a better bank that fulfils a meaningful role in society. We aim to help our 10 million customers around the world improve their lives and reach their goals. To do that, we are embedding compliance across the organization to ensure people can trust Nordea.

Interested in coming on the journey with us?

About this opportunity

We are expanding our KYC-Team in Copenhagen, Denmark. As a Senior or Chief KYC Specialist for Large Corporates, you will work as part of the dedicated Customer Due Diligence Analytics team, concentrating on Nordea Large Corporates & Institutions (LC&I). The team is responsible for all elements of the Know Your Customer (KYC) for LC&I and is part of the wider Anti-Money Laundering /Counter Terrorist Financing (AML/CTF) value chain.

To enable Nordea´s Danish LC&I Business Unit to be able to assess the customer risk, your tasks would include gathering the primary customer information from our customers, assess Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), assess Sanctions related risks, perform analyses of transactions and perform Ongoing Due Diligence on our portfolio of customers securing high quality in customer due diligence processes. As a part of your career plan, more complex customer directed activities would be added to portfolio of tasks. All the above tasks have the purpose of evaluating customer cases and related AML/CTF risks and thereby assisting the customer responsible units, Corporates & Institutions (C&I), to understand and manage financial crime related risk.

What we are offering is a challenging position in an international field of Fight Against Financial Crime. As the Specialist you will have a great opportunity not only to develop your professional skills, but also advance in your career.

We have a flexible working environment where we offer employees to work up to 2 days a week from remote/home and minimum 3 days in the Copenhagen Office and at the same time we are also focusing on ensuring collaboration, continuous knowledge sharing and facilitating a steep learning curve for new colleagues.

What you’ll be doing:

We offer you an inspiring and international working environment with dedicated, driven and professional colleagues. The role is based in Copenhagen, Metro Office very close to DR Byen Metro station.
Who you are

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in being at our best – and that we imagine you share with us.

To build a successful career with us, you’ll work well with our growing team in Copenhagen, but also with colleagues from both Nordic, Estonian and Global branches. You always act with the customers’ needs in mind. You love learning and trying new things and you are excited about bringing your ideas to the table. You are honest and dependable, willing to speak up even when it is difficult. You are committed to empowering others while feeling passionate about doing a great job.

To qualify for this position, you should preferably have an educational background within Banking, Law, Finance, Economics, Science or IT or similar. Preferably experience working within Banking and Corporates in particular. Prior experience in AML/CTF, KYC, Transactions Monitoring and/or Sanctions and knowledge on Corporate & Institutional customers is highly valued, but as we are constantly reinforcing and diversifying the team, an applicant with a background in other related field or industry sector would certainly be considered.

Candidates with strong academic results from University/Business School, but without substantial work experience, are also encouraged to apply.

Your experience and background:
If this sounds like you, get in touch!

Next steps

Please send us your application with motivation letter via our job portal. We will be running interviews on a rolling basis and based on candidates’ qualifications, so please submit your application as soon as possible as we will close the ad once we have the right candidate.

Submit your application no later than as soon as possible. For more information, you’re welcome to contact [email protected].

At Nordea, we know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable workplace. We deeply believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us better at serving customers and communities. So please come as you are.