Screening and Tm Associate

Brex Brex · Fintech · Salt Lake City, UT · Operations

This role involves investigating potential money laundering, terrorist financing, and bribery activities within a financial institution. The associate will review transaction monitoring alerts, identify and assess risks, and synthesize data to make informed decisions about customer activity. Responsibilities include conducting investigations, monitoring high-risk customers, supporting regulatory reporting, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Familiarity with AI tools is mentioned, but the core function is financial crime investigation and compliance.

What you'd actually do

  1. Conducts independent investigations into transaction monitoring alerts, manual based investigations or screening alerts.
  2. Consistently monitor unusual transactions and high-risk customers in support of regulatory reporting obligations, such as filing Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR) and Sanctions screening alerts/escalations
  3. Take ownership of the success of our internal controls, spot and scope opportunities for improvement
  4. Sampling techniques and analytical methods in order to monitor new typologies and emerging risks
  5. Support vendor integrations and address questions from L1 alert reviewers

Skills

Required

  • 2+ years of experience across a variety of financial risk operations (AML, Sanctions, Bribery/Corruption, Due Diligence, etc)
  • Knowledgeable about relevant US financial regulations authorities (ex: FinCEN, FINRA, OFAC, etc.)
  • Technical aptitude in understanding complex money movement across payment methods and rails
  • Familiarity with interpreting and utilizing data analytics tools (SQL, Looker, Excel), including designing, debugging, and organizing data for a wide audience
  • Familiarity working with AI tools
  • Demonstrated ability to work as part of a cross-functional, multi-disciplinary team (Legal, Engineering, Product Management, Data) in designing operational work-streams and internal controls
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills
  • English proficiency/fluency, both written and speaking

Nice to have

  • CAMS Certified
  • Experience using various transaction monitoring systems
  • Insatiable curiosity
  • Eagerness to learn
  • Detail oriented
  • Desire to build

What the JD emphasized

  • review and report potential money laundering (ML), terrorist financing (TF), bribery, and other violations of law
  • investigating potentially suspicious activity
  • identifying and assessing risk
  • synthesizing large amounts of data
  • make informed decisions regarding customer activity and the risk it poses to the company
  • Clear communication is essential both in written investigations and verbal communication to senior management regarding potentially suspicious activity
  • maintain a high level of quality while producing sufficient quantity of work to meet regulatory deadlines
  • adapt to a rapidly changing regulatory and business environment
  • Knowledgeable about relevant US financial regulations authorities (ex: FinCEN, FINRA, OFAC, etc.)
  • interpreting and utilizing data analytics tools (SQL, Looker, Excel), including designing, debugging, and organizing data for a wide audience