AML Surveillance Manager
Zytek Medsearch
AML Surveillance Manager
Zytek Medsearch
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California, New York
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💰 $140,000 - $180,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Lead and manage all AML operational workflows including digital asset transaction monitoring (TM), investigations, and suspicious activity reporting.
- Oversee escalations from internal teams, law enforcement, and regulators including 314(a), 314(b), subpoenas, and sanctions screening matches.
- Maintain and optimize Compliance program documentation, including policies, procedures, and desktop guidance.
- Serve as the Transaction Monitoring Lead and Model Owner, responsible for system calibration, scenario design, and rule implementation.
- Calibrate and enhance TM systems such as Elliptic, TRM Labs, and Unit21 through rule optimization and data-driven analysis.
- Monitor TM alerts, assign investigations, track deadlines, and perform QA/QC to ensure accuracy and consistency.
- Oversee all case investigations, including TM alerts, negative news, sanctions hits, and FIU-initiated inquiries; file regulatory reports such as Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs).
- Identify emerging digital asset financial crime risks and typologies and lead horizon scanning and regulatory change assessments.
- Deliver comprehensive reporting on productivity, alert/investigation/SAR trends, and system performance to senior Compliance leadership.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Compliance Technology, regional Compliance Officers, and global compliance teams to support regulatory exams and audits.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in AML compliance, financial investigations, or FIU operations, ideally in fintech, crypto, or financial services.
- Expertise in configuring and calibrating TM platforms such as Elliptic, Unit21, and TRM Labs.
- Strong knowledge of AML regulations, sanctions screening, SAR/STR reporting, and enforcement obligations (e.g., NYDFS Part 504, FinCEN, OFAC).
- Proven leadership experience managing investigations teams and operational workflows.
- Skilled in data analysis, reporting, and documentation of compliance models and decisions.
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Model validation experience, such as NYDFS Part 504, including alert calibration, above the line/below the line, and quality assurance.
