FinCrime Operations Specialist | Belgium

Deel is the all-in-one payroll and HR platform for global teams. Our vision is to unlock global opportunity for every person, team, and business. Built for the way the world works today, Deel combines HRIS, payroll, compliance, benefits, performance, and equipment management into one seamless platform. With AI-powered tools and a fully owned payroll infrastructure, Deel supports every worker type in 100+ countries, helping businesses scale smarter, faster, and more compliantly.

The FinCrime Operations Specialist will be responsible for conducting investigations, reviewing transactions, and analyzing data to identify potential risks or suspicious behaviour. You will help ensure Deel complies with global regulatory requirements and internal controls, safeguarding the company, its clients, and its partners from financial crime risks. This plays a key role in supporting the company’s efforts to prevent and detect financial crime, including money laundering, fraud, and other illicit activities.

• Efficiently execute KYC, EDD, proof of address, and other payment-related compliance reviews to safeguard our customers, our partners, and our business.
• Coordinate with both internal cross-functional teams and our external payment processing partners on customer requests or issues.
• Maintain the confidential information of our customers, our partners, and our business with the utmost integrity.
• Conduct investigations on potentially suspicious clients, users, and partners.
• Assist with providing payment-related compliance expertise to improve processes, tooling, and automation.
• Proactively identify and mitigate potential payment-related risk.
• Create and maintain thorough and clear documentation on procedures, incidents, risk analysis, and so on.
• Support the team in day-to-day activities proactively assisting with the efficient maintenance of existing processes and implementation of new FinCrime processes, demonstrating initiative and can-do attitude.
• Identify and investigate potential suspicious activities in relation to financial crime, handle in-depth AML and fraud investigations, as well as ATO cases.
• Efficiently execute transaction monitoring tasks i.e. handling alerts triggered by transaction monitoring tools and high-risk scenarios.
• Ensure investigations are completed to a high standard, including the preparation of high-quality investigation reports and the accurate filing or logging of relevant supporting material.
• Handle escalations from various teams as per procedures, including EDD, PEP, Sanction and Adverse Media screenings and high-risk scenarios.
• Handle requests for information from external sources i.e. subpoenas and law enforcement requests.

• 0-4 years of experience in a high-volume output operations team (your level/title will be based on your prior experience).
• Familiar and understand financial compliance procedures and regulations in Belgium.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Data-driven and have a structured approach to solving problems.
• Highly organized and have an acute attention to detail.
• You uphold a service-oriented mindset when working with internal and external teams.
• Experience working in an extremely fast-paced environment is a plus.
• Ability to work independently and maintain integrity in a fully remote environment.
• Must be based in Belgium.

At Deel, we’re an equal-opportunity employer that values diversity and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of race, religion, sex, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy or maternity or other applicable legally protected characteristics.