Financial Crime Training Specialist
Qonto
Accounting & Finance
Paris, France
Posted on Mar 13, 2025
Our mission? Making day-to-day banking easier for SMEs and freelancers thanks to an online business account that's combined with invoicing, bookkeeping and spend management tools. Thanks to its innovative product, highly reactive 24/7 customer support and clear pricing, Qonto has become the leader in its market.
Our journey: Founded by Alexandre and Steve in July 2017, Qonto has rapidly gained trust, serving over 500,000 customers. Thanks to our wonderful team of 1,600+ Qontoers, we also made it to the LinkedIn Top Companies French ranking!
Our values:
Customer focus | Prioritize customers in everything you do
Ownership | Own your part, get things done
Teamwork | Make (team)work easy
Mastery | Continuously raise the bar
Integrity | Always do what’s right, and respect people
Our beliefs: At Qonto, we're committed to fostering a welcoming environment where everyone can thrive. We prioritize evaluating applicants based solely on skills and potential, ensuring diversity with 50% international team members, 44% women, and 20% parents. Join us in building a workplace that celebrates diversity and individuality.
Join us as a Financial Crime Training Specialist to help protect Qonto by sharing essential financial crime prevention knowledge across our European markets.
You will work closely with Joseph, our current Training Specialist, who has built and delivered our AML/CFT training program to employees across all levels of the organization.
👩💻🧑💻 As a Financial Crime Training Specialist at Qonto, you will:
• Design and deliver engaging training content for diverse audiences across all Qonto markets
• Help shape the future of our training program by contributing to our digital learning initiatives
• Conduct specialized training for FinCrime teams, including hands-on shadowing sessions
• Collaborate with Risk & Compliance teams to maintain up-to-date training materials
• Deliver and track completion of mandatory regulatory training sessions across the organization
🤔 What you can expect:
• Market/Team Context: You'll join our FinCrime Central team at a pivotal time as we expand across Europe. You'll work in a dynamic environment where regulatory requirements and financial crime trends constantly evolve.
• Training Impact: As a regulated financial institution, training is crucial to our compliance. Your role ensures we meet our regulatory obligations while making complex topics engaging and accessible to all employees.
• Diverse Stakeholder Interaction: You'll work with multiple departments including Sales, Customer Success, Product teams, and Risk & Compliance, adapting your communication style to each audience.
• Tools & Methods: You'll combine live training sessions with modern learning management systems, helping us scale our training program while maintaining high engagement levels.
🤝 About your future manager:
Your manager will be Murielle, our Financial Crime Director, who recently joined Qonto to lead and transform our Financial Crime Compliance function.
• Her background? With over 15 years of experience in compliance and financial crime prevention at major financial institutions like Generali and Aviva, Murielle has built and scaled compliance programs across multiple entities. Most recently, as Chief Compliance Officer at Generali, she led a team of 55 employees while overseeing regulatory affairs, financial crime prevention, and internal controls. Her expertise spans from implementing innovative training programs to developing AI-driven compliance solutions.
• What does she bring to the team? This is a unique opportunity to join Qonto at an exciting time and work closely with a manager who combines strong regulatory expertise with a modern approach to compliance training. Under her leadership, you can help shape and transform how we approach financial crime training across all our markets.
🏅 About You:
• Financial Crime Expertise: You have hands-on experience in AML/CFT operations, either from a fintech or traditional banking background. This practical knowledge is essential for creating relevant training content.
• Communication Skills: You can explain complex regulatory concepts clearly and engagingly, adapting your style to different audiences and language levels.
• Language Proficiency: You are fluent in English and ideally another European language (Italian or German is a plus), with excellent presentation skills in your native language.
• Training Mindset: While prior training experience is valuable, we're more interested in your ability to share knowledge effectively and your enthusiasm for teaching others.
• Analytical Thinking: You can process complex regulatory information and transform it into digestible, engaging content for various audiences.
At Qonto we understand that true diversity isn't just about ticking boxes on a hiring checklist. Apply regardless of the boxes you tick! Who knows? You may have the missing piece of the puzzle we've been searching for all along.
🎁 Perks
A tailor-made and dynamic career track. An inclusive work environment. And so much more to help you succeed.
- Offices in Paris, Berlin, Milan, Barcelona, and Belgrade;
- Tailor-made remote work policy depending on the job you apply for and where you live;
- Competitive salary package;
- A meal voucher;
- Public transportation reimbursement (part or global);
- A great health insurance (depending on the country);
- Employee well-being initiatives: access to Moka Care to take care of your mental health and great offers for sports and wellness activities;
- A progressive disability and parenthood policy (1 in 6 of Qonto employees is a parent!) and childcare benefits with selected partners;
- Monthly team events.
💬 Our hiring process:
- Interviews with your Talent Acquisition Manager and future managers
- A remote exercise to demonstrate your skills and give you a taste of what working at Qonto could be like
We will send you an interview guide so you can best prepare yourself.
On average, our process lasts 20 working days and offers usually follow within 48 hours 🤞
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