AML Investigations Specialist

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🔥 12 hours ago

🇧🇷 Brazil – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🚨 AML and Financial Crime

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📋 Description

• Review and disposition transaction monitoring and screening alerts within SLA. • Conduct end-to-end AML, sanctions, fraud, and financial crime investigations across customer onboarding, transaction monitoring, and post-transaction reviews. • Analyze customer activity, transactional behavior, device intelligence, payment flows, including blockchain where applicable, and external intelligence to identify suspicious activity. • Escalate potentially suspicious activity and prepare clear, well-supported investigative summaries and SAR recommendations. • Perform Enhanced Due Diligence and adverse media research on higher-risk customers and transactions. • Identify and escalate emerging money laundering, fraud, sanctions evasion, mule account, and synthetic identity patterns relevant to fintech and cross-border payments. • Provide feedback to Product, Data, and Risk teams on rule performance and false positives. • Use AI tools responsibly to improve investigation quality, research, documentation, and productivity while maintaining sound investigative judgment. • Draft and maintain investigation procedures, SOPs, memos, and knowledge articles. • Support the joint operating model between FinCrime, Fraud, and Compliance Operations, including documenting handoffs and escalation paths. • Participate in regulatory examinations, audits, internal QA reviews, and periodic training activities, as required. • Contribute to building an increasingly automated, intelligence-driven Financial Crimes function.

🎯 Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience in AML investigations, transaction monitoring, fraud investigations, sanctions compliance, or financial crime operations. • Experience within a fintech, payments company, digital bank, crypto platform, or other fast-paced financial institution strongly preferred. • Strong understanding of AML/BSA concepts, customer due diligence, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, and suspicious activity investigations. • Excellent analytical and investigative skills with the ability to connect multiple data points into clear, evidence-based conclusions. • Strong written communication skills, particularly for investigative case documentation. • Experience writing operational documentation, such as procedures, case templates, or internal memos. • Comfortable working with large datasets, multiple systems, and evolving investigative tools. • Curious, proactive, and comfortable operating with ambiguity while maintaining sound risk judgment. • Demonstrated ownership, attention to detail, and continuous improvement mindset. • Fluency in written and spoken English; Spanish proficiency is highly desirable. • CAMS or an equivalent financial crime certification. • Experience investigating cross-border payments, remittances, fintech, digital wallets, cryptocurrency, or embedded finance products. • Experience working with AI assistants or LLMs to accelerate research, investigations, documentation, or operational workflows. • Familiarity with data analytics, prompt engineering, workflow automation, or low-code/no-code tools. • Experience using case management platforms or workflow automation tools is a plus. • Experience working directly with Product, Engineering, or Data Science teams. • Experience supporting regulatory examinations or responding to law enforcement requests. • Passion for using technology to rethink how financial crime investigations are performed.

🏖️ Benefits

• Initial stock options grant • Annual performance bonus • Health, dental, and vision plans • Continuous learning opportunities • Unlimited PTO • Paid parental leave • Work model: currently fully remote, with a future transition to a hybrid setup • Empowering opportunities for growth in a dynamic entrepreneurial environment

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