AML Compliance Analyst

Accountabilities:: Collaborate with globally distributed teams to implement and strengthen Financial Crimes programs covering CIP/KYC, AML, anti-fraud, and fraud monitoring initiatives. Investigate potentially suspicious activity arising from transaction monitoring alerts, escalations, and referrals, and complete investigations within established deadlines and SLAs. Screen individuals, entities, and transactions against OFAC, global sanctions, PEP, enforcement, and adverse media watchlists, assessing and documenting potential matches. Review and respond to time-sensitive escalations, FinCEN 314(a) and 314(b) requests, law enforcement inquiries, and other regulatory requests. Prepare clear, accurate, and timely SAR recommendations and narratives for management review and support the filing of approved SARs with FinCEN. Conduct comprehensive CIP/KYC, CDD, and EDD reviews, including assessment of source of funds, source of wealth, occupation, expected activity, and customer purpose. Review and disposition AML, sanctions, and securities-surveillance alerts from initial assessment through final resolution. Maintain thorough, defensible audit trails covering investigations, alert dispositions, and compliance decisions. Support enhancements to transaction monitoring rules, policies, procedures, controls, and risk frameworks. Identify and escalate critical risks, emerging trends, financial crime typologies, and compliance gaps to management. Partner with internal stakeholders during risk assessments, remediation activities, external audits, examinations, and regulatory engagements. Maintain current knowledge of regulatory developments, financial crime red flags, trading behaviors, and regulatory expectations relevant to the business. Assist with due diligence and ongoing monitoring of introducing brokers, omnibus partners, correspondents, and other intermediaries. Contribute to process improvements and identify opportunities to leverage automation and AI tools to improve compliance efficiency. Requirements 3–5 years of experience in Financial Crime or AML investigations, particularly AML alert investigations involving retail, institutional, or foreign financial firms. Strong understanding of U.S. regulatory requirements, including BSA/AML, the USA PATRIOT Act, and applicable SEC and FINRA regulations. Familiarity with trading activity and financial crime typologies such as spoofing, layering, wash trading, front-running, insider trading, deposit and withdrawal fraud, account takeover, transfer fraud, and manipulative order behavior. Demonstrated ability to identify unusual activity, exercise sound judgment, escalate risks appropriately, and document investigations in a clear, concise, and audit-ready manner. Strong investigative writing skills, including experience preparing case narratives and SAR recommendations. Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with excellent attention to detail and the ability to prioritize multiple tasks and deadlines. Experience working with transaction-monitoring, sanctions-screening, case-management, fraud-monitoring, or securities-surveillance systems. Experience conducting open-source intelligence research and evaluating public records, adverse media, corporate information, and other investigative sources. Working knowledge of domestic and international payment systems. Ability to work independently and adapt effectively to a rapidly changing business and regulatory environment. Ability and willingness to work hours providing meaningful overlap with U.S. Eastern Time, generally 4:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m. IST, subject to U.S. daylight saving time adjustments. Familiarity with the FinTech broker-dealer environment is an advantage. Experience with U.S.-registered broker/dealer or correspondent clearing firms is a plus. Familiarity with transaction alerting platforms such as riskCanvas or Genpact is desirable. Experience working within remote or globally distributed teams is advantageous. Experience investigating U.S. ACH, wire, brokerage transfer, ACATS, digital-asset, or cross-border payment activity is a plus. CAMS, CFCS, CFE, or another relevant AML, fraud, or financial crime certification is preferred. Ability to identify automation opportunities and responsibly leverage AI tools to enhance efficiency is desirable. Benefits Competitive salary and stock options. Health benefits. One-time USD $500 new-hire home-office setup allowance. USD $150 monthly stipend provided through a Brex Card. Opportunity to work within a globally distributed Financial Crimes team. Exposure to U.S. AML, sanctions, anti-fraud, securities surveillance, and regulatory compliance programs. Experience across complex financial services, trading, payments, and digital-asset activities. Opportunities to contribute to compliance controls, risk frameworks, process improvements, automation, and AI-enabled efficiency initiatives. Remote work environment in India, with eligibility requiring the ability to work from GIFT City, Gujarat.