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Money Laundering Compliance Officer (MLCO) - Netherlands

About Remote

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.  

  

We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.

If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!

What this job can offer you

This is an exciting opportunity to join Remote during a pivotal phase of growth, as the Money Laundering Compliance Officer for our licensed Dutch payments entity - part of our broader Payments & Risk organisation. You will lead core second-line compliance functions, including analysis of regulatory trends, oversight of the company’s KYC, transaction monitoring and sanctions screening framework, and full ownership of all regulatory reporting processes.

You will act as the first point of analysis for monitoring escalations, manage regulatory filings, and ensure clear, timely, and accurate documentation. This is a high-impact role requiring regulatory fluency, operational diligence, and a strong command of compliance data and reporting obligations under Dutch law. You will report to the GM of the Dutch Payments Entity and work closely with stakeholders across Compliance, Risk, Product, and Engineering.

Why this role matters?

Remote is on a mission to open the world of work for every person, business, and country. The Netherlands and the broader EU are key jurisdictions in our Payments expansion. Your work will directly shape how we build and maintain responsible, compliant, and resilient operations in this highly regulated space.

You’ll be part of a remote-first, high-trust team that values autonomy, clarity, and transparency - and your role will have a measurable impact on how risk is managed at one of the most exciting global fintech companies.

🌍 Important : For this role, you must currently reside in the Netherlands.

What you bring

  • Demonstrated experience in the compliance first or second line, regulatory reporting, and monitoring oversight role within a financial institution or fintech; experience with Dutch regulatory expectations is a strong plus.
  • Strong knowledge of Dutch and EU regulatory requirements, including Wft, Wwft, Sanctions Act 1977, and relevant DNB and FIU-NL supervisory guidance.
  • Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, evolving regulatory environment; balancing business needs and adherence to our regulatory obligations
  • Understanding on best practices for designing and maintaining customer onboarding and RFI flows
  • Direct involvement in the preparation and submission of regulatory reports, including STRs, incident and integrity reports, and statistical filings
  • Familiarity with transaction monitoring and sanctions screening systems, including how to assess alerts/escalations.
  • Excellent communication and documentation skills.
  • Fluency in English.
  • It's not required to have experience working remotely, but considered a plus.

Key Responsibilities

  • Ensure compliance with key AML regulation, including the Wwft , Sanctiewet 1977 , and EU AML/CFT directives.
  • Maintain AML/CFT policies, risk assessments, and transaction monitoring frameworks aligned with regulatory expectations. Ensure effective ML/TF/sanctions controls aligned with the company’s scale and complexity and assist in enterprise-wide risk assessments.
  • Oversight of Monitoring Activities: Oversee the operation of transaction monitoring and sanctions screening systems to ensure effectiveness and proper functioning. Review escalated alerts as a first-line compliance reviewer and determine whether further escalation is necessary. Ensure that all relevant monitoring results and actions are documented and auditable.
  • Internal reporting: Prepare internal monitoring and risk reports for senior management, internal committees, and other governance bodies. Advise senior management and the board on AML/CTF risks, regulatory developments, and the effectiveness of the compliance control environment.
  • Regulatory Reporting: Independently manage the end-to-end preparation, validation, and submission of regulatory reports to Dutch authorities (e.g. DNB, FIU-NL), ensuring full accuracy, audit readiness, and timely delivery. This includes reports such as integrity reports, incidents notifications, statistical filings, and suspicious transaction reports (STRs).

Practicals

  • You'll report to: GM of Payments Entity, Netherlands
  • Team: Compliance
  • Location : For this position we require that candidates reside in the Netherlands
  • Start date: As soon as possible

Remote Compensation Philosophy

Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.

The base salary range for this full-time position is between EUR 89,500 to EUR 100,650. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.

Application process

Roughly 3 hours across 3 weeks

  1. Interview with recruiter
  2. Interview with future manager
  3. Interview with team members (no managers present)
  4. Bar Raiser interview
  5. Offer + Prior employment verification check

Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.  

  

Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.  

  

At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.

The annual salary range for this full-time position is

€89.500 - €100.650 EUR

Benefits

Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:

  • work from anywhere
  • flexible paid time off
  • flexible working hours (we are async)
  • 16 weeks paid parental leave
  • mental health support services
  • stock options
  • learning budget
  • home office budget & IT equipment
  • budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces

How you’ll plan your day (and life)

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async.

You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

If that sounds like something you want, apply now!

How to apply

  1. Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
  2. We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
  3. If you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.

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