Operations Associate, Sanctions

Stripe Stripe · Fintech · Mexico · 3313 SDC - Financial Crimes

Stripe is seeking an Operations Associate for their Sanctions team in Mexico City. This role involves conducting investigations, making account-level judgments, and recommendations for regulatory reporting related to financial crimes and sanctions. The associate will perform in-depth open-source research, analyze complex problems, and adhere to regulatory requirements within the financial services space. The position requires 2+ years of experience in Sanctions roles and the ability to independently analyze and evaluate information from various data sources.

What you'd actually do

  1. Conduct a wide variety of analyses, including:
  2. Understand complex regulatory and compliance requirements within the financial services space and complete analyses in accordance with these requirements
  3. Conduct in-depth open source research as part of Sanctions reviews, including in the open web, corporate registries, governmental databases, and social media platforms, to understand the use case and appropriately assess the relevant sanctions and financial crimes risk
  4. Analyze complex problem and exercising sound analytical judgment on investigation resolutions or decisions
  5. Perform assignments/tasks of high complexity and resolving incoming requests from internal Stripe teams, financial partners, or other parties
  6. Adhere closely to process documentation and draft clear and concise investigative summaries and analyses, including draft regulatory reports for submission

Skills

Required

  • Sanctions roles
  • Open source research
  • Money laundering, terrorism financing, and sanctions trends and regulatory developments
  • Analyze and evaluate information from various data sources
  • Document decision making process
  • English written, spoken and interpersonal skills
  • Problem-solving skills
  • Work independently
  • Analyze problems and data sets
  • Make complex investigation decisions
  • Self-disciplined, diligent, proactive and detail oriented

What the JD emphasized

  • Experience in financial crimes compliance
  • 2+ years of experience in Sanctions roles
  • Experience conducting in-depth open source research
  • Independently analyze and evaluate information from various data sources
  • Ability to clearly record by writing the rationale & documenting the evidence of the decision making process