AML Compliance Analyst

Alpaca
India
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Legal, Risk & ComplianceExperience: 3-5 yearsSkills: ["Investigative writing","Analytical skills","Sound judgment","Attention to detail","Ability to prioritize"]

Join Alpaca’s global Financial Crimes team to support BSA/AML, sanctions, anti-fraud, and securities surveillance programs. You’ll investigate suspicious transaction monitoring alerts, review and disposition alerts end-to-end, and screen customers and activity against OFAC, sanctions, PEP, and adverse media watchlists. Prepare clear SAR recommendations and narratives, ensure timely submissions under SLAs, and help strengthen risk-based compliance controls.

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AML Compliance Analyst

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Job Summary

Join Alpaca’s global Financial Crimes team to support BSA/AML, sanctions, anti-fraud, and securities surveillance programs. You’ll investigate suspicious transaction monitoring alerts, review and disposition alerts end-to-end, and screen customers and activity against OFAC, sanctions, PEP, and adverse media watchlists. Prepare clear SAR recommendations and narratives, ensure timely submissions under SLAs, and help strengthen risk-based compliance controls.
Location: India
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Legal, Risk & Compliance
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Support Alpaca Securities’ BSA/AML, sanctions, anti-fraud, and securities surveillance programs for U.S.-based operations.
  • •Investigate potentially suspicious activity from transaction monitoring alerts, escalations, and referrals, ensuring review and disposition end-to-end.
  • •Screen individuals, entities, and transactions against OFAC sanctions, global sanctions, PEP, enforcement, and adverse media watchlists.
  • •Prepare clear, accurate SAR recommendations and narratives; support filing of approved SARs with FinCEN while meeting deadlines and SLAs.
  • •Review and respond to time-sensitive regulatory requests and escalations (including FinCEN 314(a) and 314(b)), and maintain defensible audit trails.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceEquityHome OfficeMonthly Stipend

Key Requirements

  • •3-5 years of experience in Financial Crime/AML investigations, including AML alert investigation across retail, institutional, or foreign financial firms.
  • •Strong understanding of U.S. regulatory requirements such as BSA/AML, USA PATRIOT Act, and SEC/FINRA regulations.
  • •Familiarity with trading activity and financial crime typologies (e.g., spoofing, layering, wash trading, front-running, insider trading, and manipulative order behavior).
  • •Proven ability to identify, escalate, and document unusual activity in an audit-ready manner, including writing SAR recommendations and case narratives.
  • •Experience using transaction-monitoring, sanctions-screening, case-management, fraud-monitoring, or securities-surveillance systems, plus ability to work overlapping hours with U.S. Eastern Time.
Experience:3-5 yearsFintech
Skills:Investigative writingAnalytical skillsSound judgmentAttention to detailAbility to prioritize
Certifications:CAMSCFCSCFE
Languages:English
Tech Stack:Transaction monitoringSanctions screeningCase managementFraud monitoringSecurities surveillance

Company Brief

Alpaca
Provides developer-first APIs and brokerage infrastructure for algorithmic and automated stock trading, enabling fintechs and developers to build trading applications with commission-free market access and custody services.
Industry: Fintech Infrastructure
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: San Mateo, United States
Founded: 2015
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