Financial Crime Compliance Associate

Accenture Industry and Enterprise

In today’s business environment, growth isn’t just about building value – it’s fundamental to long‑term business survival. So how do organizations sustain themselves? The key is a new operating model—one that’s anchored around the customer and propelled by intelligence to deliver exceptional experiences across the enterprise at speed and at scale. At Accenture Industry and Enterprise, you will deliver breakthrough business outcomes for clients—by harnessing talent, data and intelligence to revolutionize their operating models.

What You’ll Do

Every day, thousands of financial transactions are monitored for potential fraud, money laundering, sanctions breaches, and other suspicious activity. Your role is to identify unusual patterns, assess potential risks, and make informed decisions that help protect both clients and the integrity of the financial system. You will review real-time alerts, analyze transactional behavior, investigate red flags, and contribute to critical financial crime prevention processes within a dynamic international environment.

You will be supported by experienced teams, continuous training, and a clear career path in Transaction Monitoring, AML, and Financial Crime Compliance.

• Conduct financial compliance reviews and investigations in line with AML, CTF, sanctions, and financial crime requirements
• Perform risk-based assessments using explicit guidance, operational procedures, and defined frameworks
• Review, analyze, and interprets large volumes of transactional and behavioral data to identify potential risks
• Validate or escalate blocked payments based on compliance guidelines
• Initiate and manage Requests for Information (RFIs) to obtain additional documentation or clarification
• Document investigations clearly and comprehensively, ensuring outcomes are defensible, auditable, and evidence based
• Provide clear recommendations and escalate decisions based on analysis and applicable risk tolerance
• Utilize multiple internal and external systems, tools, and databases to support investigative activities
• Escalate issues, uncertainties, or potential high-risk cases in timely manner to his/her lead
• Participate in training, coaching, and continuous learning to build knowledge of financial crime risks

What You  Bring 

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Economics, Law, Criminology, Data Analysis, or a related field is considered a plus
• Up to 1 year of combined experience in compliance-related roles, financial crime operations, or financial investigations. Internship experience will be fully considered towards this experience
• Basic understanding of AML, Financial Crime, Transaction Monitoring, KYC/CDD, sanctions screening, or regulatory compliance concepts
• Comfortable working with multiple systems and technology-driven environments, with basic to intermediate proficiency in Excel
• Professional proficiency in English (minimum B2 level, written and spoken)
• French or Dutch language skills are considered an advantage
• Strong analytical and investigative mindset, with the ability to identify suspicious patterns and interpret transactional data
• High attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and accountability when handling sensitive information and documentation
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to document findings clearly and accurately, ensuring investigations are evidence-based, auditable, and defensible
• High standards of confidentiality, integrity, ethical conduct, and data protection awareness
• Customer-focused mindset with a proactive and solution-oriented approach
• Flexibility and adaptability in fast-paced and dynamic work environments
• Resilient under pressure, with the ability to manage workload effectively and meet operational deadlines

Legal: Must own a valid work permit or EU/Schengen Space Nationality to legally work in Portugal.

You must submit your CV in English.

What We Offer 

• Health insurance
• Life Insurance and Pension Plan Programs
• Free medical services at the office (Physician, Nutritionist, Psychologist)
• Wellness programs
• Flexben Program (Support for Education, Kindergarden, Training, Technology, Health)
• Employee Share Purchase Plan
• Personalized training paths and access to Udemy and Plurisight Plataforms
• Flex-ability program (financial and flexible support for people with disabilities)
• Special banking conditions

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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