Italian Business Payments AML Monitoring Analyst — Hybrid, Milan, Italy

Overview

Review business payment transactions and supporting documents for unusual patterns, assess customer and counterparty risk indicators and document evidence for financial-crime escalation. Coordinate information gathering with customer operations and compliance stakeholders.

Requirements

• Proven professional experience with AML/CFT transaction monitoring, investigating client transactions and detecting suspicious activity.
• Clear written and spoken Italian and English required.
• Ability to recognize suspicious patterns and evaluate invoices, contracts, bank statements and payment evidence.
• Detailed, evidence-based investigation skills and ability to document defensible outcomes.
• Strong prioritization to manage several urgent alerts and escalate risk without compromising analysis quality.
• Ability to communicate with business customers, counterparties, banking operations and compliance colleagues.
• Experience monitoring transactions of corporate clients is a strong advantage, not mandatory.
• Openness to feedback and practical process improvement.

Responsibilities

• Review and investigate AML/CFT transaction-monitoring alerts for Italian business customers.
• Assess client payments and underlying documents for money-laundering or terrorism-financing indicators.
• Contact customers and counterparties to clarify transactions and support SEPA payment validation.
• Respond appropriately to legal requests and coordinate document handling with compliance specialists.
• Escalate suspicious cases to the anti-financial-crime team, which makes formal regulatory declarations.
• Coordinate findings with onboarding, customer support and banking operations.
• Maintain accurate case records, monitor quality and suggest improved monitoring processes.

Conditions

• Full-time hybrid position in Milan, Italy.