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AML Compliance Analyst

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Finance & AccountingCompliance Analyst

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Overview

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a AML Compliance Analyst based in India.

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Finance & AccountingCompliance Analyst

Join a global Financial Crimes team focused on protecting customers, financial markets, and the integrity of financial services.
In this role, you will support BSA/AML, sanctions, anti-fraud, and securities surveillance programs across a complex financial services environment.
You will investigate potentially suspicious activity, assess financial crime risks, and prepare clear recommendations and regulatory narratives.
The position combines transaction monitoring, KYC/CDD/EDD reviews, sanctions screening, securities surveillance, and investigative research.
You will work closely with globally distributed teams and internal stakeholders while contributing to scalable, risk-based compliance controls.
The role offers exposure to U.S. financial crime regulations, trading activity, payment systems, and evolving financial crime typologies.
You will also help identify emerging risks and compliance gaps while strengthening processes, documentation, and monitoring frameworks.

Collaborate with globally distributed teams to implement and strengthen Financial Crimes programs covering CIP/KYC, AML, anti-fraud, and fraud monitoring initiatives.
Investigate potentially suspicious activity arising from transaction monitoring alerts, escalations, and referrals, and complete investigations within established deadlines and SLAs.
Screen individuals, entities, and transactions against OFAC, global sanctions, PEP, enforcement, and adverse media watchlists, assessing and documenting potential matches.
Review and respond to time-sensitive escalations, FinCEN 314(a) and 314(b) requests, law enforcement inquiries, and other regulatory requests.
Prepare clear, accurate, and timely SAR recommendations and narratives for management review and support the filing of approved SARs with FinCEN.
Conduct comprehensive CIP/KYC, CDD, and EDD reviews, including assessment of source of funds, source of wealth, occupation, expected activity, and customer purpose.
Review and disposition AML, sanctions, and securities-surveillance alerts from initial assessment through final resolution.
Maintain thorough, defensible audit trails covering investigations, alert dispositions, and compliance decisions.
Support enhancements to transaction monitoring rules, policies, procedures, controls, and risk frameworks.
Identify and escalate critical risks, emerging trends, financial crime typologies, and compliance gaps to management.
Partner with internal stakeholders during risk assessments, remediation activities, external audits, examinations, and regulatory engagements.
Maintain current knowledge of regulatory developments, financial crime red flags, trading behaviors, and regulatory expectations relevant to the business.
Assist with due diligence and ongoing monitoring of introducing brokers, omnibus partners, correspondents, and other intermediaries.
Contribute to process improvements and identify opportunities to leverage automation and AI tools to improve compliance efficiency.

Requirements

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3–5 years of experience in Financial Crime or AML investigations, particularly AML alert investigations involving retail, institutional, or foreign financial firms.
Strong understanding of U.S. regulatory requirements, including BSA/AML, the USA PATRIOT Act, and applicable SEC and FINRA regulations.
Familiarity with trading activity and financial crime typologies such as spoofing, layering, wash trading, front-running, insider trading, deposit and withdrawal fraud, account takeover, transfer fraud, and manipulative order behavior.
Demonstrated ability to identify unusual activity, exercise sound judgment, escalate risks appropriately, and document investigations in a clear, concise, and audit-ready manner.
Strong investigative writing skills, including experience preparing case narratives and SAR recommendations.
Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with excellent attention to detail and the ability to prioritize multiple tasks and deadlines.
Experience working with transaction-monitoring, sanctions-screening, case-management, fraud-monitoring, or securities-surveillance systems.
Experience conducting open-source intelligence research and evaluating public records, adverse media, corporate information, and other investigative sources.
Working knowledge of domestic and international payment systems.
Ability to work independently and adapt effectively to a rapidly changing business and regulatory environment.
Ability and willingness to work hours providing meaningful overlap with U.S. Eastern Time, generally 4:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m. IST, subject to U.S. daylight saving time adjustments.
Familiarity with the FinTech broker-dealer environment is an advantage.
Experience with U.S.-registered broker/dealer or correspondent clearing firms is a plus.
Familiarity with transaction alerting platforms such as riskCanvas or Genpact is desirable.
Experience working within remote or globally distributed teams is advantageous.
Experience investigating U.S. ACH, wire, brokerage transfer, ACATS, digital-asset, or cross-border payment activity is a plus.
CAMS, CFCS, CFE, or another relevant AML, fraud, or financial crime certification is preferred.
Ability to identify automation opportunities and responsibly leverage AI tools to enhance efficiency is desirable.