Team Lead Anti-Money Laundering - Italy
On-siteMilan, Lombardy, Italy
Job Summary
Oversee daily AML operations in Milan by managing task assignments, monitoring alerts, and driving control quality through root cause analysis of key findings. Sharpen transaction monitoring by reviewing scenarios, assessing performance, and proposing improvements to enhance detection accuracy. Lead a team of 10 specialists and BPO partners, supporting junior agents while empowering senior staff to build confidence and stabilize the group. Serve as the primary liaison for stakeholders including Internal Audit, Onboarding, and CS, ensuring alignment on regulatory compliance and audit readiness. Report to Alessandro Scandolara, Head of AML, with direct involvement in Bank of Italy-related topics and high-stakes conversations.
Required Qualifications
- Proven AML expertise in Italy
- At least 4 years of experience
- Ideally in first line of defense and transaction monitoring
- You know the Italian AML framework inside out
- Prior management expertise
- Ideally a team of minimum 3 agents
- Fluent Italian
- Fluent English
- native Italian speaker
- comfortable working in English on a day to day basis
Desired Qualifications
- A tech-first mindset
- comfortable with automation, data, and AI tools
- not just traditional banking processes
- Resilience under pressure
- you know how to prioritize a high volume of requests
- stay structured facing audits or regulatory scrutiny
- A supportive leadership style
- you listen
- build trust
- know how to stabilize a team before pushing for change
- Ideally a team of minimum 3 agents
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