AML/KYC/Sanctions Analyst

Treliant is an essential consulting firm serving banks, mortgage originators and servicers, fintechs, and other companies providing financial services globally. We are led by practitioners from the industry and the regulatory community who bring deep domain knowledge to help our clients drive business change and address the most pressing compliance, regulatory, and operational challenges. We provide data-driven, technology-enabled consulting, implementation, staffing, and managed services solutions to the regulatory compliance, risk, credit, financial crimes, and capital markets functions of our clients. Founded in 2005, Treliant is headquartered in Washington, DC, with offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia.

About the role

Treliant’s Financial Crimes and Fraud Services business unit is looking for AML/KYC/Sanctions Analysts for a multi-year client engagement. This is an onsite opportunity, and all work will be conducted at a Treliant site in San Antonio, TX. Job specific training will be provided, as appropriate.

Responsibilities

• Customer and transaction name screening.
• Accurately decide alerts generated for customers and/or transactions who appear to be matches to individuals or entities on designated lists (e.g., Politically Exposed Persons (PEP) watchlists, OFAC Specially Designated National and Blocked Persons lists, adverse media databases, etc.).
• Obtain documentation as necessary to support dispositions.
• Draft brief narratives on decision outcomes, mitigating factors, and rationale.
• Know Your Customer (KYC).
• Perform reviews of customer meeting certain high risk criteria to verify identification details, assess account transactional activity, perform open source research on customer/counterparties, and develop and document an understanding of the customer’s KYC risk profile.
• Conduct periodic refresh of KYC profiles to ensure that the understanding of the customer is current, and where applicable, remediate KYC files.
• Transaction monitoring alert deposition, investigation and Suspicious Activity Reporting.
• Conduct and perform review of alerted transaction activity involving “mobile app” payments (i.e., person-to-person, person-to-business, business-to-business) in accordance to define procedures.
• Review of deposit, investment, or crypto transactions via mobile and online platforms.
• Conduct due diligence via open source and commercial databases.
• Determine if transactions appear unusual or potentially suspicious or pose financial crime risks (i.e., money laundering, fraud, human trafficking, child exploitation, unlawful gambling, online scams, etc.).
• Draft narratives that highlight investigative results and make escalation/filing recommendations.
• Prepare, edit, and file Suspicious Activity Reports.
• Conduct ongoing reviews to determine if previously identified suspicious activity is continuing.

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of experience in financial crimes compliance (AML/BSA) preferred.
• Prior experience in the FinTech, Crypto, or payments space or experience in AML compliance operations (e.g., alert triage, negative news, name screening, or sanctions transaction filtering operations) also preferred.
• Ability to adhere to defined procedures and meet Service Level Agreement and daily productions goals.
• Recent college graduates eager to learn with interest in working with financial technology companies will also be considered.

Benefits

Primary Location: San Antonio, TX onsite
Primary Location Salary Range: $20/hr - $25/hr
Treliant offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefit package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace. In addition to a competitive base salary, candidate is eligible for incentive pay as well as a full range of health benefits, vacation plan, and 401k plan.

How to Apply

If you want to be part of a dynamic team of professionals, we invite you to join the team at Treliant. We invest in people, and challenge you to advance your career while achieving your aspirations and goals. Here at Treliant, we pride ourselves on our collaborative team culture, where we embrace diversity of thought and innovation. If you strive for excellence and seek an inclusive environment apply on line treliant.com and follow us on LinkedIn.