BSA/AML Officer - US

About ARQ ARQ is one of the fastest-growing fintechs in the world. Our mission is to redefine how people interact with money across borders, building the backbone to move value seamlessly. We’re still early in our journey, which means every person who joins shapes the future of our product, culture, and growth. If you’re excited by big challenges, global impact, and the chance to grow fast with a world-class team, ARQ is the place to do it. The job You find risk, measure it and call it. You do not fix it. Every finding you write answers three things: what is broken, how bad it is, and what evidence proves it. You don't soften the rating and you don't propose the remedy. The business owns the fix. You own the truth about the risk. What you will do Test our BSA/AML, KYC, OFAC and transaction monitoring controls end to end, independently of the teams that run themRate every finding (high / medium / low) with evidence that holds up in front of a regulatorPull and analyze data yourself; you don't wait for someone to send you a reportChallenge thresholds, alert logic and sampling assumptions with numbers, not opinionsTrack open issues until owners close them, and escalate when they don'tPrepare us for regulator exams and audits, and be the person in the room who already knows the weak spots What you need (non-negotiable) 4+ years in BSA/AML, FinCrime, internal audit or regulatory complianceExperience at a top-tier audit/advisory firm, in-house compliance, or both. Both is ideal. You have written findings that a regulator, auditor or board actually readYou can say "this is high risk" to a senior leader and point to the regulation which proves it. Deep working knowledge of the BSA, USA PATRIOT Act, OFAC and FinCEN expectations Nice to have Law degree (JD) or bar admissionDegree in engineering, mathematics, statistics or another STEM fieldSQL: you can query transaction data yourselfPython or R for analysis, sampling or testing alert logicStatistics: sampling design, hypothesis testing, threshold and model validationCAMS, CRCM, CIA, CISA, CPA or CFEExposure to AI or model risk (SR 11-7, NIST AI RMF) You will not enjoy this role if You need someone else to pull the data for youYou round risk ratings down to keep people comfortableYou are uncomfortable being the person no one wants in the meetingYou uniform to the norm.