THE ROLE
As an intern or working student in Risk & Compliance (all genders), you’ll play a vital role in helping our team identify and mitigate potential risks, ensuring the security of our customers' financial data.
About the position:
Department: Legal, Risk & Compliance
Team: Risk & Compliance
Location: Munich, Berlin
Remote status: Hybrid
Number of positions: 1
This position follows a hybrid work model and requires at least two days per week in the office. We have three locations in Germany: one in the beautiful port city of Hamburg, another in the Bavarian capital Munich, and our headquarters in Berlin.
What you will be doing:
* Actively supporting the execution of AML (Anti-Money Laundering) and KYC (Know Your Customer) processes, including assessing AML risks for our customers.
* Gaining hands-on experience with our state-of-the-art technical AML solutions.
* Conducting independent research and analysis tasks related to various Risk & Compliance processes.
* Assisting in customer audits to ensure compliance with national and regulatory standards.
* Contributing to tasks related to Information Security, particularly ICT third-party risk management.
What you bring to the team:
* You are a student in a higher semester, pursuing a degree in economics, engineering, computer science, mathematics, or a related field, with strong academic performance.
* You are looking to work at least 16 hours per week and are enrolled at a university for at least 5 more months.
* Ideally, you have initial experience in the financial industry or consulting.
* You demonstrate strong team spirit, excellent communication skills, and a proactive attitude to gain valuable hands-on experience.
* You have a solid knowledge of Office applications.
* You possess excellent written and spoken German and English skills.
Why Qwist?
* Work with a true open banking pioneer and witness the journey/revolution from open banking to open finance and beyond. Work with colleagues with years of experience in the industry and a true passion and vision for the future of open banking.
* Healthy work-life balance: Time is precious. Make it count. We enable all our employees to organize their living and working hours flexibly, making it possible to combine personal life with work life!
* We are ever-evolving and so are you. We have business goals (OKRs) but also personal development goals. Our formalized bi-annual feedback process, regular Engagement checks and personal development budget are available to make sure that we grow together and find everyone's perfect spot at the table.
* You will become part of a cross-functional environment where you will be empowered through ownership and collaboration;
* A relocation package and/or visa support for those who need it
* While we offer you the opportunity to work at our Berlin and Hamburg offices with all its amenities, we have a distributed working style, with semi-regular in-person events and meetings. Productive at home? So are we.
Don’t meet every single requirement? At Qwist we value diverse perspectives and experience. If you are excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!
About us
At Qwist Group we free Financial Data to improve, ease and enable. We drive real consumer, business and societal change from Open Finance. For over a decade, we’ve powered the largest banks and led the way in the Open Finance ecosystem. Qwist Groups employs 120 + people in 4 countries
Join our team and be part of empowering everyone to access fair and transparent financial services. Get ready to make a significant impact as we are the leading technology and solution provider for Open Finance.
Qwist is the leading independent Open Banking platform provider in Europe! We enable companies across a multitude of industries to provide the next generation of financial services by understanding how customers transact and interact. We offer a full range of leading fintech solutions to financial institutions. We cater to clients requirements, from stand-alone microproducts to all-in-one solutions. We ensure that all levels of digital maturity are covered by our services.
Qwist addresses the fragmented open banking landscape with a “full-stack” platform. It enables partners to access financial transactions, enrich the transactions with data & analytics tools, and ultimately deliver seamless digitized financial services to customers. We are a regulated payment institution under the Payment Services Supervision Act (Zahlungsdiensteaufsichtsgesetz – ZAG)