Senior AML Analyst – Sanctions Screening
As a Senior AML Analyst focused on sanctions screening at Trustly, you play a key role in safeguarding our payment flows and ensuring compliance with global sanctions regimes. You own complex, high-risk investigations end-to-end, making well-reasoned decisions aligned with regulatory expectations, internal policies, and Trustly’s risk appetite. This role goes beyond alert handling. You act as a sanctions subject matter expert, strengthening controls, enhancing screening frameworks and investigative standards, and driving continuous quality improvements. You operate independently, challenge existing approaches, and help define what “good” looks like as regulations and risks evolve. If you thrive in a fast-moving environment and want to shape how sanctions compliance operates at scale, we’d love to hear from you.
- Conduct and own complex sanctions screening investigations end-to-end, ensuring a gold standard for investigative depth.
- Assess high-risk and ambiguous matches across customers, merchants, and counterparties with a focus on multijurisdictional complexity.
- Apply expert judgment on true match vs. false positive determinations, documenting decisions to withstand regulatory scrutiny.
- Own screening system administration, managing configuration, lists, and rule tuning to optimize performance.
- Coordinate queue management, ensuring SLAs are met and high-priority payment flows are processed without friction.
- Mentor and support junior analysts through active guidance, reviews, and structured knowledge-sharing sessions.
- Support in driving quality assurance and control testing, identifying gaps in screening effectiveness and leading or supporting the remediation efforts.
- Bridge the gap between Compliance and Tech, collaborating with Product teams to troubleshoot system issues or implement new watchlist data.
- Support internal and external stakeholder communication, acting as a subject matter expert during audits or regulatory deep dives.
- Support in refining sanctions procedures and policies with a forward-looking mindset, translating complex global updates into actionable operational SOPs.
- 5+ years’ hands-on experience in sanctions screening or AML with a strong sanctions focus.
- Strong understanding of global sanctions regimes (OFAC, EU, UN, UK) and screening best practices.
- Proven ability to manage complex, high-risk cases and ambiguous matches, applying sound judgment under pressure and working confidently with large datasets.
- Technically confident in screening system administration (e.g., rule tuning, fuzzy logic, internal list management) and able to bridge compliance requirements with technical configurations.
- Experienced in coordinating workflows, prioritising effectively, and consistently meeting operational SLAs.
- A natural mentor and proactive owner who drives quality, continuous improvement, and clear communication in English (B2-C1).
- Relevant certifications such as ACAMS, CGSS (Certified Global Sanctions Specialist), or ICA are highly valued.
- 20 to 25 days of holiday to support a healthy work-life balance
- Monthly team outing allowance to enjoy social events with your colleagues
- Office perks such as refreshments (coffee, sodas etc.), breakfast, fruit and snacks
- Meal card to enjoy a daily lunch allowance to make your workdays even more convenient
- Well being support our health allowance covers gym memberships, massages, and much more to help you feel your best
- PLUS additional benefits designed to enhance your work-life experience!
Trustly is a Swedish fintech company specialising in account-to-account (open banking) payments, letting consumers pay directly from their bank accounts without cards. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Stockholm, it connects merchants - including many online gambling operators - to thousands of banks across Europe and North America. The company processes billions of euros in payments annually and is a widely used deposit and withdrawal method in the iGaming industry. Trustly employs more than 1,000 people across offices in Europe and the Americas.
