LATAM & Sanctions Compliance Analyst

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $75k - $120k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🚨 AML and Financial Crime

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Slash

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2021

💳 Fintech

🤝 B2B

🏦 Banking

Fintech • B2B • Banking

Slash is a financial technology company that is reimagining banking to cater specifically to the needs of various industries. They offer innovative solutions such as corporate cards, business banking services, and cryptocurrency transaction capabilities, emphasizing flexibility and specific features tailored to different business types. With services ranging from high-yield accounts, stablecoin payments, to working capital options, Slash aims to provide a comprehensive financial platform designed to accelerate the success of businesses in the modern economy.

📋 Description

• Conduct CDD and EDD reviews for customers with ties to Latin America, including Venezuela, assessing geographic, sanctions, corruption, PEP, and cross-border financial-crime risks • Review complex individual and business ownership structures, beneficial owners, related parties, counterparties, and multinational business activity • Assess and corroborate source of funds and source of wealth using customer documentation, public records, adverse media, and other relevant sources • Investigate domestic and international transaction activity, including wires, ACH transfers, and other payment flows, to identify unusual patterns and potential sanctions evasion or money laundering • Conduct sanctions screening and disposition potential matches involving customers, beneficial owners, counterparties, financial institutions, vessels, jurisdictions, and other relevant parties • Evaluate direct and indirect exposure to OFAC programs and restrictions, including Venezuela-related sanctions, blocked persons and entities, the 50 Percent Rule, and applicable sectoral or general-license considerations • Investigate potentially suspicious activity and prepare internal escalations and Unusual Activity Reports (UARs) • Support onboarding reviews, periodic refreshes, event-driven reviews, and ongoing monitoring for higher-risk international customers • Maintain case records, decision rationales, supporting evidence, and audit trails in line with internal policies and regulatory expectations • Partner with Compliance and Product teams to improve risk-rating methodologies, screening and monitoring rules, alert quality, procedures, and operational tooling • Stay current on LATAM financial-crime typologies, sanctions developments, enforcement actions, political and economic developments, and regulatory guidance

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in AML, sanctions, EDD, financial-crimes compliance, or risk operations at a bank, fintech, payments company, or similarly regulated financial institution • Hands-on experience reviewing customers or transactions connected to Latin America; direct experience with Venezuela-related risks strongly preferred • Strong working knowledge of BSA/AML requirements, KYC/KYB, CDD/EDD, beneficial ownership, transaction monitoring, adverse-media research, and SAR/UAR processes • Practical knowledge of OFAC sanctions requirements, OFAC general licences, sanctions screening and alert disposition, the 50 Percent Rule, and escalation of complex sanctions questions • Experience assessing international customers, foreign-owned businesses, cross-border transactions, and complex sources of funds or wealth • Ability to analyze nuanced cases independently, identify missing information, document a defensible rationale, and escalate appropriately • Excellent investigative, analytical, and written communication skills • High integrity and sound judgment when handling sensitive customer and financial information • Comfort operating in a fast-paced startup environment where policies, products, and regulatory expectations continue to evolve • Professional proficiency in Spanish, including the ability to review business, banking, corporate, and source-of-funds documentation (nice to have) • Experience at a U.S. bank serving international or LATAM customers (nice to have) • Familiarity with Venezuela-specific sanctions, state-owned enterprises, PEP exposure, currency controls, trade-based money laundering, and regional corruption typologies (nice to have) • Experience with sanctions-screening, transaction-monitoring, case-management, or investigative research tools (nice to have) • ACAMS, CGSS, or a comparable compliance certification (nice to have)

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote opportunity • Meaningful ownership of complex, high-impact compliance work • Close collaboration with compliance leadership and cross-functional partners • Development of deep expertise across international banking, LATAM financial-crime risk, sanctions, and EDD