Circle is hiring a
Senior Analyst

Summary

Join Circle as a Senior Analyst, Periodic Review to conduct detailed periodic reviews and projects in the Compliance Operations team, ensuring customer due diligence is complete and accurate.

Requirements

• B.A./B.S. degree; quantitative or technical degree a plus
• 4+ years of relevant experience in AML and KYC reviews for corporates, with 2 years in crypto, preferable in ongoing monitoring of higher and high risk customers
• Detail-oriented, highly analytical and comfortable digging into data
• Strong communication skills and presence, ability to interface with internal and external teams

Responsibilities

• Review higher and high risk client relationships to ensure that customer due diligence is complete and accurate and meets applicable specialized and enhanced due diligence requirements
• Critically examining customer profile changes and documentation obtained during the periodic review process for material changes in risk factors and red flags
• Updating internal records to enrich customer KYC files
• Ensuring the customer's nature of business aligns with their business models and profiles
• Escalating and drafting executive level risk acceptance memos for customers with red flags and higher risk attributes and succinctly summarizing findings and next steps
• Collaborating with the Customer Service team and Relationship Managers to obtain all necessary supporting documentation to fulfill KYC due diligence requirements
• Partnering with team leads within the region to facilitate knowledge sharing
• Monitoring industry trends relative to money laundering or fraud schemes including detection and reporting of suspicious activity
• Performing any general administration and ancillary activities as may be required and related to the above functions in accordance with the business requirements of the Company

Preferred Qualifications

CAMS, CFCS or CFE certification is a plus

Benefits

• Work effectively in a fully remote environment with teams spanning multiple time-zones (our team is across the US, Europe & APAC)
• Experience/familiarity with Slack, Apple MacOS and GSuite