Join our team as a Sanctions Screening Specialist!

Yes, you can! That's our attitude towards our work, ambitions, ideas and relationships. We, at Luminor, believe that anyone has the potential to achieve big things and encourage everyone to achieve them – professionally and personally. 

Whoever you are, and whatever your role is, with Luminor you will get a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build a local banking champion.

As a Sanctions Screening Specialist, your mission is to screen and identify potential sanctions risks, safeguarding regulatory compliance.*

*This is a temporary position until 2027-03-31

What You Will Do:

• Investigate alerts related to transactions screening generated by Luminor's internal system according to internal guidelines and procedures

• Investigate alerts related to customers against sanctions, politically exposed persons lists, adverse media, and internal blacklist according to internal guidelines and procedures

• Investigate customer’s information and transactions using Luminor’s systems, public databases, and internal information according to internal procedures and guidelines to identify potential or true matches and sanctions risks related to customer or associated parties

• In case of identification of a potential or true sanctions match – prepare an overview of identified red flags and sanctions risks, and escalate the case according to internal procedures and guidelines to the 2nd line of defense structural unit

• Complete detailed documentation of steps taken through account/customer review, investigation, and escalation process, as well as documentation of information gathered during the investigation process within Luminor systems

• Contribute to the preparation of materials and presentation of customers in the Customer Risk Committee

• Maintain contact with relevant structural units responsible for communication with customers to obtain information about customer’s activity

• Participate in customer and transaction data migration activities by reviewing, validating and reconciling migrated information to ensure accuracy and compliance with Sanctions monitoring standards

• Support the migration project team by providing subject matter expertise on Sanctions related scenarios, contributing to testing activities (e.g., customer and transaction alert generation, case handling workflows) and identifying potential gaps or risks

• Contribute to smooth transition into new systems or processes by documenting findings, raising issues, and cooperating with relevant stakeholders to ensure operational readiness within the unit

What We Expect: 

• 1-2 year experience with banking or other industry that is required professional skills in AML/CTF/Sanctions area

• High commitment to the current and prospective alert processing needs, keeping oneself pro-actively updated on the upcoming regulatory changes

• Eye on details, “can-do” attitude

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

• Initiative and high level of responsibility

• Can work on flexible/ summarized working hours schedule (e.g. sometimes on weekends or after 5 PM)

• Fluent English is required in spoken and written communication due to working on the Pan-Baltic level 

What We Offer:

• Flexibility. Flexible working hours, remote work and a possibility to work from anywhere in the EU, Iceland, Switzerland and the UK (in total 90 days per year)

• International teams. Teams that go outside Pan-Baltic borders where people value challenging work together with good humour and having fun

• More vacation. Additional week of vacation are available to all employees who have been in the company for 1 year or more

• Volunteer time off. We care about giving back to society, therefore, you will get additional days off for volunteering purposes

• Paid leave. We are proud of our employees who are participating in military training. Therefore, Luminor offers 30 fully paid calendar days for military training every year

• Health benefits. A competitive benefits package in addition to your salary that includes health insurance after the first 3 months pass in all three Baltic states as well as Health days in case of your absence due to sickness without a doctor's note needed

• Wellbeing. Access to tools and resources that help to feel good and be productive at work and in life

• Professional growth. Internal and external training programs, workshops, conferences, online training etc.

• Gross salary. 2150 - 3230 EUR/month, which is to be determined depending on your level of experience and competencies

The application deadline is 23rd of the January. We are looking for a candidate primarily already located within the Baltics please apply with your CV in English and PDF format!