Detecting Financial Crime Detecting criminal money

Explore, discover and prevent

Your mission at the Detecting Financial Crime (DFC) department is to make the world a safer place by tracing criminal money. DFC performs various activities aimed at detecting financial crime. Knowing your customers is key, as this will help you understand their motivation and goals. You use this knowledge to effectively intervene when someone abuses ABN AMRO to launder money, commit fraud or finance terrorism.
Money laundering means people converting funds obtained through criminal activities into seemingly legitimate income. This process is constantly developing new forms and methods to evade detection. This may include not only over- and under-invoicing in commercial activities, but also using digital currencies to transfer funds between countries or using bogus companies acting as intermediary. 
In your capacity as analyst, you also detect fraud or terrorist financing by looking into unusual transactions or deposits.
 

Taking the lead in a constantly changing environment

As financial crime is changing all the time, your work at DFC is also constantly changing and developing. At the start of your job at DFC, you will be given intensive training. You will also keep abreast of all developments in the field for the rest of your employment. This includes attending masterclasses on subjects such as crypto currency. In addition to the substantive training, you will also develop on a personal level, for example by attending courses on subjects such as negotiating or persuasive writing.

Empowerment

Everyone at DFC works according to the principle of empowerment, meaning that every member is given autonomy and ownership to determine for themselves how the objectives are realised. Instead of being supported by a line manager, you are supervised by a support team consisting of experts and coaches. An example of showing ownership is the possibility of joining the quality ownership. This means working together with colleagues to ensure that the quality of the dossiers is maintained.

Discover your career at DFC

DFC offers many possibilities to shape your career. You start as a junior analyst before moving on to senior analyst where you help others with their analyses. Moving on to positions such as quality checker, researcher in special cases or expert in the support team is also possible.

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