Compliance Analyst

Summary

Join Brightwell, a pioneering payments company, as a Compliance Analyst for a 6-month contract (July-December 2025). This remote position involves monitoring transaction activity to detect suspicious transactions, managing compliance with consumer protection laws, and creating investigations. You will communicate with clients, maintain logs and reports, participate in compliance exams, and assist the Director of Compliance with investigative processes. The role requires strong analytical and problem-solving skills, experience in financial crimes, and proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel. Remittance experience, FIS and Zendesk experience are preferred.

Requirements

• Mastery of English language, both spoken and written. All correspondence will be in English
• Two or more years of financial crimes related experience such as anti-money laundering, fraud, investigations, SARs, economic sanctions, etc
• Demonstrated effective decision-making skills and open communication with users
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel (should be able to create pivot tables and v-lookups at a minimum)
• The ability to work independently and remain focused for long periods of time
• Strong problem-solving skills and an ability to recognize patterns and report findings in a concise and organized manner
• Ability to handle multiple priorities with numerous deadlines
• Experience working with the highest level of attention to detail. Due to the nature of the work in this position, work may be highly scrutinized

Responsibilities

• Monitor transaction activity to detect suspicious transactions
• Decision transaction monitoring, sanctions, and customer account alerts
• Create and maintain open investigations created by the detection of suspicious transactions
• Communicate with clients regarding card activity
• Maintain a log of open items and complete monitoring reports promptly
• Participate in consumer compliance control exams and verify compliance plans against established policies and procedures and applicable regulations
• Assist the Director of Compliance with the investigative process for law enforcement requests, audit requests, regulatory requests, and banking partner requests
• Support internal compliance efforts
• Conduct special projects or other duties, as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

• Remittance experience (this is a HUGE plus for us!)
• Experience working with FIS
• Experience working in ZenDesk

Benefits

This is a REMOTE position