AFC Operations Intern

At Upvest, we are on a mission to make investing as easy as spending money. Upvest empowers businesses to offer a wide range of investment products and the best experience in the field of capital market investment and retirement planning. Upvest’s Investment API is easy to integrate so that fintechs and financial institutions can save resources and fully focus on their core business.

We are proud to partner with Europe’s leading Fintechs and financial institutions such as DKB, Revolut, N26 and Raisin. Founded in 2017 by Martin Kassing, Upvest now brings together over 270 talented professionals from more than 70 nationalities. Upvest is backed by €280M in total funding from world-class investors, including BlackRock, Tencent, Sapphire Ventures, and Bessemer Venture Partners, Earlybird, Notion Capital, and Motive. Our latest €105M funding round in March 2026 - led by Sapphire and Tencent - serves as a massive catalyst for our growth, allowing us to offer premier investment experience.

About the role:

As an AFC (Anti-Financial Crime) Operations Intern at Upvest, you’ll be at the forefront of our financial crime defense, playing a hands-on role in safeguarding our platform and our clients.

You’ll execute Upvest’s first-line-of-defense (1st LoD) AFC processes day to day, the case work that keeps our brokerage infrastructure clean and compliant.

This is a full-time, 6-month internship for someone with a first exposure to AFC / KYC or to the financial sector more broadly, for example through studies, customer support, banking operations, or a previous internship, who is ready to take on a real caseload and grow in autonomy. Depending on performance and business needs, the internship may be extended or converted into a full-time position.

We’re looking for a reliable, detail-oriented person who understands the basics of KYC/AML and is comfortable managing high-volume operational tasks.

What you’ll do:

• Conducting PEP and Sanctions screening, researching and dispositioning hits as true matches or false positives, with clear, well-documented rationale.

• Performing KYB checks for corporate onboarding.

• Carrying out KYC sample checks, transaction monitoring, and managing the resulting follow-ups with our clients.

• Executing and maintaining AFC procedures and controls in line with regulatory requirements and internal policy.

• Using and helping improve our automation and tooling to make case processing faster and more consistent, for example AI assistants, workflow automation (e.g. n8n), data validation and reporting in the Google Suite (Sheets, Apps Script) and Looker, and basic SQL for querying and cross-checking case data.