Senior Compliance Associate, KYC

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $116k - $132.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🚨 AML and Financial Crime

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Paxos

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2012

💼 Consulting

⚖️ Legal

📦 Logistics

💰 Corporate Round - Paxos on 2022-01

Consulting • Legal • Logistics

Paxos is a regulated blockchain infrastructure and trust company that builds enterprise-grade digital asset solutions, including issued stablecoins, custody, and crypto brokerage services. The company provides stablecoin issuance and redemption (e. g. , USDP, PYUSD, USDG, PAXG), payments and payout rails, and custody/trading infrastructure for institutions, emphasizing regulatory oversight, transparency, and compliance across jurisdictions. Paxos partners with major enterprises to enable payments and tokenization while operating under trust charters and payments licenses.

📋 Description

• Perform KYC onboarding, ongoing due diligence, and enhanced due diligence reviews for individual and institutional customers • Assess complex customer information and make documented, risk-based decisions • Escalate concerns with supporting analysis and recommended next steps • Support junior analysts through guidance, knowledge sharing, and feedback • Contribute to KYC procedures and operational guidance • Partner with Product, Engineering, Data, and business teams to resolve KYC challenges • Communicate with enterprise partners, customers, and Compliance teams to resolve due diligence questions • Identify control gaps and support remediation through root cause analysis, corrective actions, and evidence preparation • Support audits and regulatory examinations • Identify and escalate KYC vendor issues • Recommend and drive improvements to KYC tools and workflows • Support user acceptance testing and implementation • Identify efficiency and control-effectiveness improvements through automation and appropriate AI use • Use operational metrics to prioritize work and communicate solutions to blockers and capacity constraints • Support occasional weekend duty as business needs require

🎯 Requirements

• Strong working knowledge of US KYC requirements, including customer identification, beneficial ownership, CDD, EDD, customer risk rating, and ongoing due diligence for individual and institutional customers • Experience independently performing KYC reviews, assessing complex cases, and documenting well-supported, risk-based decisions • Ability to support junior analysts through practical guidance, knowledge sharing, and feedback • Experience working across Compliance, Product, Engineering, Data, and business teams • Ability to manage competing priorities, meet deadlines, and communicate blockers and capacity constraints • Experience contributing to KYC procedures and operational guidance • Experience identifying control gaps and supporting remediation, audits, or regulatory examinations • Ability to use operational metrics to prioritize work and identify backlog, quality, or turnaround time concerns • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Ability to work independently and recognize when guidance or approval is required • Familiarity with AI and automation tools, including appropriate use, data protection, and verification of outputs

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • 10% annual bonus • Bonuses based on individual performance and company performance • Competitive total compensation and benefits package • Remote-first organization • Globally distributed workforce

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