Financial Crime Compliance Specialist – Sr Financial Economic Crime Investigator

Financial Crime Compliance Specialist – Sr Financial Economic Crime Investigator (Network Investigations & FEC Events) – Amsterdam/Leeuwarden

As a Senior FEC Investigator, you provide leadership in network and complex financial crime investigations and analyses. You coach and mentor colleagues in developing their investigative expertise while driving high-quality investigative activities within Financial Crime Compliance. A key part of your role is ensuring that investigative findings are leveraged to strengthen ING’s risk and control framework and enhance the effectiveness of its financial crime prevention measures. By building strong relationships with stakeholders and acting as a trusted advisor, you contribute to ING’s compliance with regulatory obligations and the ongoing mitigation of financial crime risks.

The team
Within NI&FE, the focus is on prioritising and executing network investigations and FEC events, as well as providing oversight of 1LOD investigations initiated based on information received from FCC. The outcomes of both activities are embedded within ING’s risk and control framework in close alignment with Advisory teams, ensuring that ING’s exposure to financial economic crime remains within Risk Appetite.
 

Roles and responsibilities
The Senior FEC Investigator plays a key role in shaping ING’s response to financial crime risks through thought leadership, stakeholder influence, and the delivery of impactful investigations and improvement initiatives.

• Shape the FCC risk and investigation agenda by identifying emerging financial crime risks, providing substantiated insights to management, and influencing priorities and improvement initiatives across FCC.

• Lead network and complex investigations by setting direction, overseeing execution, and ensuring outcomes address key financial crime risks and support FCC strategic objectives.

• Drive the implementation and impact of investigation outcomes by translating findings into sustainable improvements to ING’s risk and control framework, policies, processes and financial crime prevention activities.

• Provide thought leadership and stakeholder influence by coaching colleagues, strengthening investigative capabilities, and leading alignment with internal and external stakeholders on complex topics to achieve strategic objectives.

• Steer effectiveness, reporting and organisational learning by monitoring the impact of Investigation & Intelligence activities, challenging results and outcomes where needed, and ensuring key insights, trends and lessons learned are embedded across ING Group.

How to succeed
We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself.

This role requires 6 to 10 years of experience within the second line (Compliance), where you have developed a broad understanding of risk acceptance and risk management. You have demonstrable experience conducting thematic and project-based investigations and translating findings into sustainable improvements and possess a strong affinity for policy improvement and process optimization. You work independently, meticulously, and with a strong focus on quality.

• AML / Sanctions Expertise – You maintain extensive and up-to-date knowledge of AML, Sanctions and Counter Terrorist Financing and apply this expertise effectively in complex investigations, analyses and decision-making.

• Stakeholder Management & Influence – You build and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders, understand their interests and agendas, and influence outcomes in line with FCC strategy and regulatory expectations.

• Compliance & Regulatory Interpretation – You interpret and apply relevant laws, regulations and policies, support regulatory compliance, and ensure consistent alignment across FCC teams.

• Project, Change & Execution Management – You take ownership, drive initiatives with energy and urgency, and deliver projects and change initiatives within agreed quality, time and cost parameters while aligning operational and strategic objectives.

• Communication, Trust & Collaboration – You communicate clearly and effectively, build trust through integrity and reliability, and actively strengthen collaboration and organisational connectivity by maintaining a visible presence in the office for at least two days a week and fostering relationships within and outside the team.

• Data & Technology Enablement – You leverage data, digital tools and technological innovations to strengthen investigations, improve FCC processes, and identify new opportunities for data-driven risk management and decision-making.

Rewards and benefits
We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. Find out more about our employment conditions.

The benefits of working with us at ING include:

• 25-28 vacation days depending on contract

• Pension scheme

• 13th month salary

• 8% Holiday payment

• Hybrid working

• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities

• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

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