AML Compliance Analyst

Your Role

Join Alpaca's global Financial Crimes team and help safeguard the integrity of our customers and the financial markets. In this role, you will support Alpaca Securities' BSA/AML, sanctions, anti-fraud, and securities surveillance programs. You will investigate potentially suspicious activity, prepare SAR recommendations and narratives, and help strengthen scalable, risk-based compliance controls.

This position reports to the AML Manager for Securities & Crypto or the AMLCO's designee. Because the role supports U.S. based operations, the individual must be able to maintain meaningful working-hour overlap with U.S. Eastern Time.

Things You Get To Do

• Collaborate with globally-distributed teams to implement and strengthen the firm’s Financial Crimes program and identify risks across CIP/KYC, AML, Anti-Fraud, and Fraud Monitoring initiatives.
• Investigate potentially suspicious activity through transaction monitoring alerts, escalations, and referrals.
• Ensure that transaction monitoring alerts, regulatory submissions, and case investigations are completed/submitted within the established deadlines and SLAs.
• Screen individuals, entities, and transactions to assess potential matches against OFAC, global sanctions, PEP, enforcement, and adverse media watchlists.
• Review and respond to time-sensitive escalations, FinCEN 314(a) and 314(b) requests, law enforcement queries, and other regulatory inquiries.
• Support ongoing enhancements to transaction monitoring rules, policies, procedures, controls, and risk frameworks.