Due Diligence Team Leader

  • Application Deadline: April 8, 2025
  • Hybrid
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  • Application Deadline: April 8, 2025
  • Hybrid

Join Our Team as a Due Diligence Team Leader at Santander!

Are you ready to take on an important role in our mission to prevent financial crime? At Santander, we believe that you can make a significant impact in ensuring that we meet regulatory requirements and uphold industry standards. As our Due Diligence Team Leader, you will be at the forefront of our efforts to protect our customers and our bank.

In this role, you will implement our strategy for preventing financial crime by leading our customer due diligence measures. Your expertise will be crucial in adapting to the rapidly changing regulatory environment, ensuring that we are always one step ahead.

What You’ll Do:

  • Lead with Purpose: You will secure timely reviews and manage customer due diligence processes, ensuring that we maintain the highest standards of quality and integrity in our work.
  • Collaborate and Support: Working closely with the Head of Investigation & Due Diligence, you will help shape the strategy for our team, defining responsibilities and ways of working that empower us to meet regulatory requirements and market expectations.
  • Build Strong Relationships: You will foster strong connections with our Operations and Commercial departments, as well as our HQ, ensuring seamless communication and collaboration.
  • Empower Your Team: You will provide the tools and support necessary for your team members to excel in their tasks, building a strong and cohesive unit.
  • Drive Continuous Improvement: Together, we will implement and enhance our strategy and framework, ensuring that our processes are efficient and effective.
  • Facilitate Cooperation: You will ensure smooth collaboration with stakeholders, enabling effective controls across all lines of defense and contributing to a robust Financial Crime Prevention environment.

Skills & Requirements

Personal Characteristics:

  • Able to communicate motivation, purpose, and direction for the team.
  • Engaged, curious, self-driven, and service-oriented.
  • Possess the ability to easily connect and build trust among colleagues across all levels.
  • Pragmatic thinker, proactive in finding sustainable solutions.
  • Thrives in a dynamic and changing environment.
  • Passionate about preventing money laundering and terrorist financing, and upholding Santander's reputation as a responsible bank.

Competencies and Skills:

  • Strong knowledge of financial crime risks, as well as the financial industry and trends.
  • Strong leadership skills.
  • High quantitative and analytical competence.
  • Ability to manage multiple high-priority issues and deliverables simultaneously.
  • Excellent interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills.
  • Fluent (written and spoken) in English and Swedish.

Experience:

  • 3+ years of working experience in financial crime prevention.
  • Experience leading people towards a common goal.
  • Working experience with implementing strategies and frameworks.
  • Established and proven experience in customer due diligence.
  • Proven experience working in the Nordic countries.

Education:

  • Bachelor's degree in Economics, Law, or another related field. Relevant experience can compensate for a missing degree.
  • Background in law, compliance, and regulation.
  • Holding ACAMS, ICA, or similar is considered an advantage.

At Santander, we value your contributions and are committed to providing you with the tools and support you need to perform your best and enjoy your work. If you are passionate about making a difference and ready to lead our Due Diligence efforts, we want to hear from you!

We offer:

  • An opportunity to work in a large, high-performing international company, in a dynamic environment that is constantly changing
  • A corporate culture that is professional, yet informal, customer and value driven
  • Highly competent and dedicated co-workers with strong collaboration across the Nordics
  • A high level of diversity and multi-cultural working atmosphere
  • A strong focus on learning and development  
  • Multiple sports and social events

Join us in our journey to create a safer banking environment for everyone. Apply now and be a part of our dedicated team at Santander!


The position may require completion of a Suitability Assessment, including police certificate of good conduct and credit check. The assessment is not carried out without prior consent of the candidate and relevant candidates will be informed during the recruitment process.


Great Place to Work

  • We invest in you

  • Innovative and looking to the future

  • BeHealthy | Your health is important to us

  • Social events for all employees

  • Engaged colleagues

  • Dynamic work environment

  • Employee benefits and discounts

  • Competitive insurance and pension plans

  • We give back to society

  • Gode pensions- og forsikringsforhold

  • Vi investerer i din udvikling

  • Vi giver tilbage til samfundet

  • Medarbejderfordele og rabatter

  • Dedikeret kollegaer

  • Globale muligheder

  • Sociale arrangementer for alle medarbejdere

  • Innovativ og fremadtænkende virksomhed

  • Gode forsikrings- og pensjonsordninger

  • Engasjerte kolleger

  • Sosiale arrangement for alle ansatte

  • BeHealthy | Din helse er viktig for oss

  • Innovativt og fremtidsrettet selskap

  • Vi investerer i deg

  • Vi gir tilbake til samfunnet

  • Personalgoder og rabatter

  • Dynamisk arbeidsmiljø

  • Sociala evenemang för alla anställda

  • Dynamisk arbetsmiljö

  • Vi ger tillbaka till samhället

  • Konkurrenskraftiga pensioner & försäkringar

  • Innovation, förbättring och utveckling

  • Globala möjligheter

  • Friskvård - din hälsa är viktig för oss

  • Engagerade kollegor

  • Personalförmåner via Benify

About the company

We are a Nordic bank with more than 1,200 colleagues in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland, and proud to be part of Banco Santander, one of the largest banks in the world with a solid history going back more than 160 years.

Our purpose is to help people and businesses prosper and we aim to be the best retail and commercial bank, earning the lasting loyalty of our people, customers, shareholders and communities - through simple, personal and fair banking.

In our organization we foster and value an engaged, challenging and passionate environment that provides opportunities for personal and professional growth. We operate in an ever changing environment, and believe the key to success is innovative involvement, a playful approach to active learning and continuous improvement in our daily work.

We are firmly committed to being a responsible bank in the way we operate, our culture, caring for our environment and giving back to society. Banco Santander is recognized as the most sustainable bank in the world following the publication of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) for 2019.

Read more about responsible banking on our global webpages.

Santander Consumer Bank is one of the largest Nordic banks providing loans and credits, credit cards, deposits and insurance to private customers.

To learn more about Santander in the Nordics, please visit our local webpages

https://www.santanderconsumer.no/
https://www.santanderconsumer.se/om-oss/
https://santanderconsumer.dk/om-os/
https://www.santanderconsumer.fi/

TWorld’s Most Sustainable Bank 2019 (Dow Jones Sustainability Index 2019)

TA Nordic Bank with global strength

TPart of Banco Santander – one of the world’s largest financial institutions

TBanco Santander’s history goes back more than 160 years

TOver 1200 employees across the Nordics

TWe serve over 1.6 million customers

TStrategic partnerships with over 10 000 car dealers, merchants and brokers

TInnovation is key to our future success

TEn Nordisk bank med global styrke

TEn del af Banco Santander – en af verdens største finansielle institutioner

TBanco Santanders historie går mere end 160 år tilbage

TVerdens mest bæredygtige bank 2019 (Dow Jones Sustainability Index 2019)

T1.200 ansatte på tværs af Norden

TOver 1.6 mio kunder

TStrategiske partnerskaber med mere end 10.000 bilforhandlere, indkøbere og brokere

TInnovation er nøglen til vores fremtidige succes

TVi leverer digitale kundeoplevelser

THistorien vår går tilbake til 1963 i Norge

TOver 600 000 kunder og 3500 partnere i Norge

T50/50 fordeling menn og kvinner

TOver 600 000 kunder og 3500 partnere i Norge

TStørst på billån i Norge

TFremtidsrettede | Først ute i Norge med ApplePay

TVi er dedikert til å være en ansvarlig långiver!

TInnovative | Vår siste nyvinning SHFT – en abonnementsløsning for bil

TEn nordisk bank med global styrka

TDel av Banco Santander - en av världens största finansiella institutioner

TBanco Santanders historia går tillbaka mer än 160 år

TVärldens mest hållbara bank 2019 (Dow Jones Sustainability Index 2019)

T1200 anställda i Norden

TVi servar över 1,6 miljoner kunder

TInnovation är nyckeln till vår framgång

TVi levererar digitala kundupplevelser i framkant

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