We are looking for an experienced, Spanish-speaking Teamlead CDD for a sustainable Dutch bank.
In this role, you will lead a dynamic team of 15 Spanish-speaking Customer Due Diligence (CDD) professionals based in the Netherlands. Your primary responsibility will be to manage, coach, and support the team in their day-to-day activities, ensuring high-quality investigations and compliance with regulatory standards related to Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) processes.
Beyond your leadership duties in the Netherlands, you will also play a pivotal role in fostering collaboration with our colleagues in Spain. This includes maintaining regular communication, aligning workflows, sharing best practices, and supporting their development. You will act as the key link between both locations, ensuring consistent performance and knowledge transfer across the teams. Your guidance and oversight will contribute to strengthening the international alignment of our CDD operations, enhancing both efficiency and quality.
The ideal candidate is not only fluent in Spanish and English but also has a deep understanding of the cultural nuances and operational challenges involved in working across borders. You should be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, experienced in leading diverse teams, and driven to support a shared mission of preventing financial crime while contributing to a socially responsible and sustainable financial sector.
Your profile:
- Completed HBO education, preferably in economics, business administration, law, criminology or finance.
- Minimum 5 years of demonstrable experience within the KYC/CDD domain.
- Minimum 1 year of leadership experience as a Team Lead within CDD teams.
- Demonstrable experience in managing, coaching and developing CDD analysts.
- Fluent command of Spanish and Dutch, both oral and written.
- Strong analytical skills: able to distinguish main and minor issues, recognize risks and make connections.
- Excellent communication skills to present findings in a clear, structured and focused way to both internal stakeholders and external parties.
- Risk awareness and judgement: you know how to quickly and accurately assess what fits within a client profile.
- Eager to learn and able to quickly master complex regulations and processes.
- Stress-resistant and flexible: you know how to set priorities in a constantly changing work environment with high workloads and strict deadlines.
- Dare to ask for help (Given working mainly online, you must dare to address your colleague and trainers).
- Repetitive work (you perform the same work, but the investigations are very diverse).
- Social involvement in our field of work (knowing what is going on in the world and what can affect our work).
- Customer focus.
- Thinking from our perspective and our stakeholders.
What's in it for you?
- Competitive salary
- 12-month contract;
- 8.33% holiday pay;
- 25 holidays based on 40-hour weeks;
- You will receive a non-contributory pension with StiPP;
- Hybrid working where you are expected to attend the office once or twice a week;
- Travel expense allowance in the form of an NS Business Card or a kilometre allowance of €0.23 per kilometre;
- Personal guidance and a negotiable training budget from our Performance Management Team.
Starting date early September 2025, location Utrecht.
Enthusiastic about this great opportunity? Let's connect! Call me on 020 808 1431 or send your most recent CV to jazz.czeyki@oliverjames.com.
