Stripe

Financial Crimes Investigations Lead, Americas

Stripe

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Lead a team of Financial Crime Analysts located across the Americas region (US, Canada, and Latin America)
  • Provide guidance and support to the Americas team, in order to conduct a wide variety of analyses, potentially including:
  • Investigations into money laundering, terrorist financing and other financial crimes and reporting of this activity through Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) or Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs)
  • Conduct OFAC and BIS screening ("watchlist") and sanctioned jurisdictions screening (“keyword”) reviews, manually reviewing Stripe merchant accounts, and reviewing investigations work products, as part of Stripe’s sanctions program
  • Assessments of customer risks, including KYC and Due Diligence investigations for high risk customers, inclusive of Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs)
  • Management of customer risk to Stripe, including the assessment of user retention and offboarding of users
  • Assist the team in the investigation and response to requests for information from banking and financial partners, including the direct management of financial partner relationships
  • Drive complex intelligence investigations and analytical workstreams, coordinating with Stripe’s Complex and Major investigations teams
  • Demonstrate sound judgment and an ability to navigate non-binary, high-risk decisions, and effectively communicate these decisions to the wider team
  • Adhere closely to process while still constantly questioning assumptions, suggesting improvements, and following up implementation of those improvements
  • Effectively and clearly communicate, including with other Stripes, Stripe's users, and Stripe's financial partners
  • Demonstrate ownership of the Americas Financial Crimes program, and constantly seek improvements and accountability both within the team, as well as with our Financial Crimes Operations teams.

Requirements

  • 5+ years experience in investigations, operations, or advisory roles within financial crimes, AML, sanctions, risk, fraud, research, or a related field
  • 2+ years experience leading financial crimes investigation teams of varying size and complexity
  • Investigative expertise and strong knowledge of BSA, AML, US Patriot Act, and OFAC regulations
  • Excellent research and writing skills
  • Ability to synthesize large amounts of information, including transaction data
  • Ability to work efficiently and independently in a fast-paced environment
  • Ability to work cross-functionally with internal stakeholders.
Benefits
  • Health insurance
  • Professional development

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
financial crime investigationsmoney laundering analysisterrorist financing analysisKYC investigationsDue Diligence investigationsrisk assessmentBSA knowledgeAML knowledgeOFAC regulationsUS Patriot Act knowledge
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationjudgmentanalytical thinkingproblem-solvingindependencecross-functional collaborationownershipadaptabilityattention to detail