Working Student, Compliance & Transaction Monitoring, Pliant
2 days a week in office
Digital corporate credit card solutions
Be an early applicant
Digital corporate credit card solutions
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
2 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower businesses to grow by providing a smart payment option that grows with their business.
Role
Who you are
- Currently enrolled in a top-tier university program (business, finance, economics, computer science, data science, or related)
- Proven academic excellence (top grades, scholarships, competitions, or other merit-based achievements)
- Strong interest in fintech, banking, and financial technology innovation
- Basic understanding of compliance and regulatory frameworks, or a strong motivation to quickly gain expertise in these areas
- Demonstrated experience with data (analysis, visualization, or modelling) and data-driven applications
- Proficiency in Python for analysis or automation
- Familiarity with prompt engineering and LLMs for applied problem-solving
- Exceptional attention to detail, structured thinking, and the ability to deliver in a fast-paced environment
- Fluent in English; other European languages are a plus
What the job involves
- As a Working Student – Compliance & Transaction Monitoring, you’ll sit at the intersection of fintech, data, and operational risk management. You’ll work on high-impact tasks in client onboarding, risk profiling, and transaction surveillance — while leveraging data-driven applications, Python, and AI tools to enhance efficiency and insight
- You’ll collaborate closely with our Compliance, Risk, Product, and Engineering teams, gaining hands-on experience in one of Europe’s fastest-scaling fintechs
- Verify corporate clients (KYB), identifying legal representatives and beneficial owners through global databases and registries
- Assess customer risk profiles using structured data, defined frameworks, and regulatory guidelines
- Review AML alerts from monitoring systems, flag anomalies, and escalate potential cases to senior specialists
- Analyze transaction patterns to detect suspicious behaviors or potential financial crime indicators
- Prepare and maintain accurate digital credit files in compliance with internal policies
- Contribute to the refinement of detection rules to reduce false positives and improve monitoring effectiveness
- Work with data-driven applications to support decision-making in compliance and monitoring
- Use Python for data analysis, workflow automation, and reporting
- Develop and maintain local LLM-based applications
- Apply prompt engineering to accelerate research, document drafting, and case analysis
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering to improve tools, workflows, and system logic
- Suggest automation opportunities and AI-driven enhancements
Our take
The corporate credit card industry, historically dominated by giants like AmEx, has seen rapid disruption and growth over recent years. An influx of VC investment boosted smaller outfits like Divvy and Brex Inc. to multi-billion dollar operations, and this has cracked open the market to a host of smaller fintech startups.
Pliant is a German company entering the scene, but it’s a competitive one. It's hoping to stand out by prioritising seamless software integrations, competitive cashback, and a new optional feature offsetting travel-related CO2 emissions. The latter is incredibly novel and has undoubtedly won the company some press in an increasingly sustainability-oriented climate.
Pliant’s offering of both physical and digital cards, as well as its suite of advantages and services, has enabled the company to successfully adapt to the growing payments market. The company has, thus far, entered seven additional European markets and expanded its customer portfolio sixfold. Following successful funding rounds, Pliant is set to further expand operations and its business reach, with a focus on the US.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
233% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2025
$41.2m
SERIES B
Apr 2024
$21.1m
SERIES A
Total funding: $123m
Company benefits
- Home office and remote work
- Flexible working hours
- Mobility discount
- Budget for professional development and training
- Railcard
- Monthly food allowance
- Gympass
- Weekly mindfulness sessions
- Team events
Company HQ
Kollwitzkiez, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Fabian Turner
(Co-Founder & CPO)Previously the Head of Operations at Lendico, and went on to serve as CPO at FinCompare.
Malte Rau
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Portfolio Manager and Head of Fintech Investments at Global Growth Cap, they then went on to found Geldspeicher GmbH.
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