[Hiring] Financial Crime Team Lead @Huron

Role Description

Huron are seeking to hire multiple AML Team Leads to support and oversee Anti-money laundering financial crime activities for a global banking compliance program. This role combines hands-on involvement in transaction monitoring, alert investigation, risk escalation, and suspicious activity assessments with the leadership and coordination of a team, in alignment with regulatory expectations, particularly under the German AML Act (GwG).

You will play a key role in guiding analysts in identifying unusual transactional activity, ensuring appropriate risk escalation, and maintaining AML monitoring processes that are traceable, well documented and audit ready.

Your Role: A Financial Crime Specialist Leading AML Detection & Monitoring

• Oversee L1- L2 AML transaction monitoring alert reviews, ensuring accurate distinction between false positives and genuine concerns.
• Provide guidance on the triage of transaction monitoring alerts and assessment of transactional behaviour against known typologies.
• Supervise the management of multiple queues of transaction and account screening alerts, ensuring accuracy and efficiency across the team.
• Support and review post processing activities for alerts potentially linked to SAR/STR obligations under §43 of the German AML Act (GwG).
• Review complex customer profiles, transactional histories and red flag indicators to validate risk assessments and analyst decisions.
• Escalate potential Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) to senior stakeholders or external governance bodies in line with regulatory requirements.
• Ensure clear, defensible rationales are documented for alert clearance and escalation decisions across the team.
• Drive high team productivity while maintaining strict quality, regulatory and audit standards.
• Act as a key point of contact for escalations, supporting issue resolution and decision making.
• Identify rule gaps, control weaknesses and opportunities to enhance monitoring frameworks, providing feedback to stakeholders.
• Ensure investigations, decisions and outcomes are accurately recorded in required systems (e.g. LOCS) and subject to appropriate quality assurance.

Qualifications

• Strong educational background; a degree in Finance, Legal or a STEM discipline is advantageous.
• Knowledge of German AML regulations (GwG), including §43 reporting requirements.
• German language skills both spoken and written at C2 or above.
• 4+ years’ experience in AML Transaction Monitoring or financial crime investigations, including experience in a senior or supervisory capacity.
• Proven experience analysing transaction patterns and identifying suspicious activity.
• Background working in banking environments, either in house or through consulting/outsourced services.
• Experience providing guidance, coaching or oversight to junior team members.
• Familiarity with transaction monitoring systems and screening tools.
• Strong understanding of AML, financial crime risk and regulatory frameworks.
• Understanding of sanctions and BSA related regulatory requirements.
• Excellent analytical skills, attention to detail and sound judgment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficiency across Microsoft Office, especially Excel, Word and PowerPoint.

Company Description

Huron is a global consultancy that collaborates with clients to drive strategic growth, ignite innovation and navigate constant change. Through a combination of strategy, expertise and creativity, we help clients accelerate operational, digital and cultural transformation, enabling the change they need to own their future.