Senior Analyst, Compliance Quality Operations

What You’ll Be Part Of

Circle is committed to visibility and stability in everything we do. As we grow as an organization, we're expanding into some of the world's strongest jurisdictions. Speed and efficiency are motivators for our success and our employees live by our company values: High Integrity, Future Forward, Multistakeholder, Mindful, and Driven by Excellence. We have built a flexible work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.

What You’ll Be Responsible For

• Developing and improving the quality program to ensure quality reviews are completed in the most optimal way possible.
• Performing quality reviews on all AML processes: KYC onboarding, periodic reviews, transaction monitoring alert reviews, investigations, and screening (Sanctions, PEP, negative news) alert reviews, as well as future Compliance Operations processes supported by the Compliance Quality Operations Team, as needed.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to enable the Compliance Quality program to be agile, and accommodate any Compliance or business-wide program or process changes.
• Driving continual process optimization, including evaluating and leveraging AI-enabled tools where appropriate.
• Affirming the quality control and assurance team in delivering quality reporting.
• Working in collaboration with Risk, Compliance, outsourced vendors, Training, and Enablement and a range of other stakeholders to create brilliant and effective partnerships.
• Engaging directly with our outsourced partners and vendors to ensure a clear understanding of the challenges and process to drive for increased quality performance and output.
• Assisting with scaling the Compliance Quality program.
• Contributing to the effective delivery of Shared Services OKRs for each half.
• Ensuring effective communication and reporting for enhanced visibility across the business on key pieces of work.
• Completing ad-hoc projects as required and in line with business needs.

Core Requirements

• 4+ years experience in financial crimes compliance, with a minimum of 1 year in a quality role.
• Strong organizational, analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to maintain a strong operational focus with the ability to manage time sensitive workflows across competing priorities.
• Experience analyzing large transactional data sets, proficiency in SQL preferred.
• Exceptional attention to detail, with the ability to identify and address potential issues and risks.
• Experience and comfort working in an ever changing industry and the flexibility to quickly react to changing demands.
• Organized, detailed, proactive, self-motivated, collaborative, multi-tasker, and creative.
• Proven ability to excel in a fast-paced environment is extremely important.
• Ability to prioritize workloads and ensure tasks are completed timely.
• High integrity and ability to handle confidential information.
• Familiarity with generative AI models (ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.) and prompt development.

Preferred Requirements

• Experience/familiarity with Slack, Apple MacOS and GSuite.
• Experience working with blockchain forensic tools (e.g., TRM Labs, Chainalysis, Elliptic).
• CAMS, CFCS or CFE certification.
• A passion for harnessing the power of digital currency and blockchain technology and services built on top of it.