Swedish Team Lead, Transaction Monitoring - Nordea Estonia

It’s an exciting time for you to join us. We’re a changing company with big ambitions and together we’ll create the future of banking.

Nordea is the leading financial institution in the Nordic region, with over 30,000 employees in the Nordics. Nordea Service Centre in Tallinn, with 400 employees, is providing a variety of different services to other units within the Nordea Group.

Working with us, you will play a part in building a better bank that fulfils a meaningful role in society. We aim to help our 11 million customers around the world improve their lives and reach their goals. To do that, we are embedding compliance across the organization to ensure people can trust Nordea. Interested in coming on the journey with us?

The offer
As a Swedish Speaking Team Leader in Transaction Monitoring, you’ll develop and enable your team’s performance and individual empowerment through clear target setting and a strong coaching approach. You understand the differences that make people unique and you are able to use those individual skills and competences to create a high performing team that contributes to operational excellence.

Transaction Monitoring Processing is a part of Group Anti-Money Laundering & Sanctions. In Transaction Monitoring we strongly contribute to fighting financial crime by running an efficient and effective operation for all Business Areas with activities and processes related to transaction monitoring. The efforts needed for fighting financial crime such as terrorist financing and money laundering are continuously increasing.





What you’ll be doing:

You are a leader who recognizes the value of good leadership. While leading a local Swedish team, you have a strong Nordic and global mind-set, and you are enthusiastic about cross-border cooperation with the colleagues and stakeholders in the other countries. Previous experience with change management is considered a big advantage. Further benefits are driver skills, which would enable you to take on relevant roles, when needed.

The area of financial crime is complex and thus a strong interest and knowledge about relevant topics, such as anti-money laundering, will create a strong platform for you to support your team in the journey towards operational excellence.


The role is based in Tallinn, Estonia.


We will offer you:
◾A chance to be part of a recently formed team consisting of people with great enthusiasm for the business and for delivering top class service
◾Great atmosphere at workplace in friendly and enthusiastic international team
◾On-the job trainings to fully prepare you for the tasks
◾Possibility to contribute to improvement of the quality and efficiency of assigned tasks and processes
◾Social and health benefits (sport benefit, accident insurance, voluntary activity initiative, team events)

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. The four key values that guide us in being at our best and that we expect all our colleagues be committed to.

To build a successful career with us, you’ll work well with others and always act with the customer’s needs in mind. You love learning and trying new things, and you’re excited about bringing your ideas to the table. You’re honest and dependable, willing to speak up even when it’s difficult, and committed to empowering others. You’re passionate about doing a great job.

You take responsibility for delivering a strong business result and driving the functional excellence. You make and implement operational plans and set concrete targets for the team as well as for each employee. You ensure that your direct reports understand how their targets and plans are linked to the strategy. You facilitate process optimisation and continuous improvements, hence also deliver on

simplification. You personally lead by example Nordea’s vision, values and leadership statement. You provide timely and well-documented feedback, coach and assess performance. You are good at communicating and showing direction to enable direct reports to cooperate and execute.

Your background:
◾Experience in leading a team
◾Good communication skills
◾Proactive approach and readiness for new challenges
◾Experience with working in a cross-border organisation
◾Drive to motivate people and welcome changes
◾Good level of Swedish is a benefit as You lead Swedish team
◾Professional written and spoken English


If this sounds like you, we look forward to welcoming you to the team!

More information
Please send us your CV and application letter in English as soon as possible as we start to plan interviews at once with potential candidates.

We believe that diversity improves team performance. Therefore, we strive to form teams with a mix of people of different genders and ages, and with different backgrounds and experiences.

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