Senior Analyst, AML Transaction Monitoring

Circle (NYSE: CRCL) is one of the world’s leading internet financial platform companies, building the foundation of a more open, global economy through digital assets, payment applications, and programmable blockchain infrastructure. Circle ’s platform includes the world’s largest regulated stablecoin network anchored by USDC, Circle Payments Network for global money movement, and Arc, an enterprise-grade blockchain designed to become the Economic OS for the internet. Enterprises, financial institutions, and developers use Circle to power trusted, internet-scale financial innovation. Learn more at circle.com .

What you’ll be part of:

Circle is committed to visibility and stability in everything we do. As we grow as an organization, we're expanding into some of the world's strongest jurisdictions. Speed and efficiency are motivators for our success and our employees live by our company values : High Integrity, Future Forward, Multistakeholder, Mindful, and Driven by Excellence. We have built a flexible work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.

What you’ll be responsible for:

As a Senior Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Analyst, you’ll join our Investigation Operations (IO) team helping detect fraudulent activity, suspicious/illegal behaviors and patterns and drive projects focused on preventing and detecting financial crime. The ideal candidate is a highly motivated, inquisitive individual with a background in AML compliance, who enjoys analytical challenges and is passionate about blockchain technology.

What you'll work on:

Investigating, analyzing and identifying activity which may lead to filing suspicious activity reports, as required by law, from AML alerts, enhanced monitoring reviews, and other L1 transaction monitoring reviews.

Working cases, as-needed, and filing SARs/STRs when appropriate.

Assisting in fulfilling requests from and providing support to, external parties, such as law enforcement and banking partners, and internal parties, such as policy, legal and Compliance Operations partners.

Conducting screening and adverse media checks.

Ensuring customers are compliant with the laws and regulations to satisfy Circle ’s obligations to the appropriate regulatory authorities.

Maintaining a strong operational focus with the ability to manage time sensitive workflows across competing priorities.

Collaborating with policy and compliance data and technology teams to share trends and insights as well as providing suggestions to improve detection models, thresholds, and typology coverage to create greater efficiency and more valuable work products for the IO team.

Understanding complex business problems, breaking down analytical projects into a structured approach and formalizing complex ideas into a well defined logic.

Conducting training and providing feedback to TM analysts