Senior Specialist, FinCrime Compliance

Summary

Join Deel's FinCrime Compliance team as a Senior Analyst/Investigator and contribute to a fast-growing, globally distributed company. You will support daily operations, investigate suspicious activities related to financial crime, execute transaction monitoring tasks, and prepare high-quality investigation reports. The role requires experience in compliance operations, knowledge of financial crime and sanctions compliance, and excellent communication skills. You will work independently and maintain integrity in a fully remote environment. Deel offers competitive pay, stock grant opportunities, flexible remote work, and additional perks and benefits.

Requirements

• You have 1-3+ years of experience in a high-volume output Compliance operations team
• You are knowledgeable in the area of financial crime and sanctions compliance risk management and controls, you understand financial crime and sanctions compliance related regulations
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills
• You are data-driven and have a structured approach to solving problems
• You are very organized and have an acute attention to detail
• You uphold a service-oriented mindset when working with internal and external teams
• You are willing to put in extra hours during our busy periods (typically around the end of month)
• You are able to work in an extremely fast-paced global environment while maintaining quality and accuracy
• You are able to execute independently and maintain integrity in a fully remote company
• You are a fun and supportive teammate!

Responsibilities

• Support the team in day to day activities proactively assisting with the efficient maintenance of existing processes and implementation of new FinCrime processes, demonstrating initiative and can-do attitude
• Identify and investigate potential suspicious activities in relation to financial crime, handle in depth AML and fraud investigations, as well as ATO cases
• Efficiently execute transaction monitoring tasks i.e. handling alerts triggered by transaction monitoring tools and high risk scenarios
• Ensure investigations are completed to a high standard, including the preparation of high quality investigation reports and the accurate filing or logging of relevant supporting material
• Handle escalations from various teams as per procedures, including EDD, PEP, Sanction and Adverse Media screenings and high risk scenarios
• Handle requests for information from external sources i.e. subpoenas and law enforcement requests
• Maintain the confidential information of our customers, our partners, and our business with the utmost integrity
• Assist with providing payment-related compliance expertise to improve processes, tooling, and automation
• Create and maintain thorough and clear documentation on procedures, incidents, risk analysis, as well as provide reporting to different levels of audience

Benefits

• Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location
• Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country
• The flexibility of remote work, including optional WeWork access