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Yes, this AML Compliance Analysts position at Alpaca is a remote position. The role is available for candidates in India.

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This is a full-time AML Compliance Analysts position at Alpaca.

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Alpaca offers the following benefits: Stock Options.

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AML Compliance Analysts at Alpaca

India

<div class="content-intro">Who We Are: Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 10 million brokerage accounts. Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it. Alpaca is proudly backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator. Our Team Members: We're a dynamic team of 400+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond! We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.</div>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.   <h3>Things You Get To Do: </h3> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;">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.</li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;">Investigate potentially suspicious activity through transaction monitoring alerts, escalations, and referrals.</li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;">Ensure that transaction monitoring alerts, regulatory submissions, and case investigations are completed/submitted within the established deadlines and SLAs.</li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;">Screen individuals, entities, and transactions to assess potential matches against OFAC, global sanctions, PEP, enforcement, and adverse media watchlists.</li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;">Review and respond to time-sensitive escalations, FinCEN 314(a) and 314(b) requests, law enforcement queries, and other regulatory inquiries.</li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;">Support ongoing enhancements to transaction monitoring rules, policies, procedures, controls, and risk frameworks.</li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;">Maintain audit trails with thorough, defensible documentation of investigations, alert dispositions, and compliance decisions.</li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;">Proactively identify and escalate critical risks, emerging trends, and compliance gaps to management.</li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;">Prepare clear, accurate, and timely SAR recommendations and narratives for management review, and support the filing of approved SARs with FinCEN.</li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;">Partner with internal stakeholders and assist during risk assessments, remediation efforts, external audits, examinations, and regulatory engagements.</li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;">Maintain strong knowledge of regulatory developments, financial crime typologies and red flags, trading behaviors, and regulatory expectations applicable to Alpaca’s business.</li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;">Conduct comprehensive CIP/KYC, CDD, and EDD reviews to identify, manage, and mitigate customer and firm-wide risk.</li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;">Evaluate source of funds, source of wealth, occupation, expected activity, and customer purpose.</li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;">Review and disposition assigned AML, sanctions, and securities-surveillance alerts from beginning to end.</li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;">Assist with due diligence and ongoing monitoring of introducing brokers, omnibus partners, correspondents, and other intermediaries.</li> </ul> <h3>Who You Are (Must-Haves):</h3> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;">Excited about Alpaca’s mission and what we’re building to open financial services to everyone on the plant. </li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;">3-5 years of experience in Financial Crime/AML investigations (AML Alert Investigation related to retail, institutional, foreign financial firms)</li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;">Strong understanding of U.S. regulatory requirements (e.g., BSA/AML, USA PATRIOT Act, SEC/FINRA regulations).</li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;">Familiarity with trading activity and a variety of financial crime typologies, including spoofing, layering, wash trading, front-running, insider trading, fraud(deposit/withdrawals,account takeover/transfers) and manipulative order behavior.</li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;">Demonstrated ability to identify and escalate unusual activity and document investigations in a clear, concise, and audit-ready manner.</li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;">Strong investigative writing skills, including the ability to prepare clear, concise, and audit-ready case narratives and SAR recommendations.</li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;">Strong analytical skills, sound judgment, attention to detail, and ability to prioritize multiple tasks and deadlines effectively.</li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience using transaction-monitoring, sanctions-screening, case-management, fraud-monitoring, or securities-surveillance systems.</li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;">Ability to work independently and adapt to a rapidly changing business and regulatory environment.</li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience conducting open-source intelligence research and evaluating public records, adverse media, corporate information, and other investigative sources.</li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;">Working knowledge of domestic and international payment systems.</li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;">Ability and willingness to work a schedule that provides meaningful overlap with U.S. Eastern Time.</li> </ul> <h3>Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):</h3> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;">Knowledge of FinTech Broker Dealer Space and able to support a fast paced environment.</li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience with U.S. Registered Broker/Dealer - Correspondent Clearing Firms.</li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;">Familiarity with Transaction alerting platforms (e.g. riskCanvas/Genpact).</li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;">Previous experience working in a remote or global team environment.</li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;">Ability to identify automation opportunities and leverage AI tools to enhance efficiency.</li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience investigating U.S. ACH, wire, brokerage transfer, ACATS, digital-asset, or cross-border payment activity.</li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;">CAMS, CFCS, CFE, or another relevant AML, fraud, or financial crime certification preferred.</li> </ul> <div class="content-conclusion"><h3>How We Take Care of You:</h3> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;">Competitive Salary & Stock Options</li> <li style="text-align: justify;">Health Benefits</li> <li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;">New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500</li> <li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;">Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card</li> </ul> Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce. <a href="https://files.alpaca.markets/disclosures/AlpacaRecruitmentPrivacyPolicy.pdf">Recruitment Privacy Policy</a></div>

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AML Compliance Analysts

Alpaca

Full Time

4 weeks ago

Who We Are: Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.

India

Data

Mid

AML Investigations

BSA/AML compliance

Transaction Monitoring

+5 more

Job Description

Who We Are:

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.

Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 10 million brokerage accounts.

Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.

Alpaca is proudly backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

Our Team Members:

We're a dynamic team of 400+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond!

We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.

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.
Maintain audit trails with thorough, defensible documentation of investigations, alert dispositions, and compliance decisions.
Proactively identify and escalate critical risks, emerging trends, and compliance gaps to management.
Prepare clear, accurate, and timely SAR recommendations and narratives for management review, and support the filing of approved SARs with FinCEN.
Partner with internal stakeholders and assist during risk assessments, remediation efforts, external audits, examinations, and regulatory engagements.
Maintain strong knowledge of regulatory developments, financial crime typologies and red flags, trading behaviors, and regulatory expectations applicable to Alpaca’s business.
Conduct comprehensive CIP/KYC, CDD, and EDD reviews to identify, manage, and mitigate customer and firm-wide risk.
Evaluate source of funds, source of wealth, occupation, expected activity, and customer purpose.
Review and disposition assigned AML, sanctions, and securities-surveillance alerts from beginning to end.
Assist with due diligence and ongoing monitoring of introducing brokers, omnibus partners, correspondents, and other intermediaries.

Who You Are (Must-Haves):

Excited about Alpaca’s mission and what we’re building to open financial services to everyone on the plant.
3-5 years of experience in Financial Crime/AML investigations (AML Alert Investigation related to retail, institutional, foreign financial firms)
Strong understanding of U.S. regulatory requirements (e.g., BSA/AML, USA PATRIOT Act, SEC/FINRA regulations).
Familiarity with trading activity and a variety of financial crime typologies, including spoofing, layering, wash trading, front-running, insider trading, fraud(deposit/withdrawals,account takeover/transfers) and manipulative order behavior.
Demonstrated ability to identify and escalate unusual activity and document investigations in a clear, concise, and audit-ready manner.
Strong investigative writing skills, including the ability to prepare clear, concise, and audit-ready case narratives and SAR recommendations.
Strong analytical skills, sound judgment, attention to detail, and ability to prioritize multiple tasks and deadlines effectively.
Experience using transaction-monitoring, sanctions-screening, case-management, fraud-monitoring, or securities-surveillance systems.
Ability to work independently and adapt to a rapidly changing business and regulatory environment.
Experience conducting open-source intelligence research and evaluating public records, adverse media, corporate information, and other investigative sources.
Working knowledge of domestic and international payment systems.
Ability and willingness to work a schedule that provides meaningful overlap with U.S. Eastern Time.

Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):

Knowledge of FinTech Broker Dealer Space and able to support a fast paced environment.
Experience with U.S. Registered Broker/Dealer - Correspondent Clearing Firms.
Familiarity with Transaction alerting platforms (e.g. riskCanvas/Genpact).
Previous experience working in a remote or global team environment.
Ability to identify automation opportunities and leverage AI tools to enhance efficiency.
Experience investigating U.S. ACH, wire, brokerage transfer, ACATS, digital-asset, or cross-border payment activity.
CAMS, CFCS, CFE, or another relevant AML, fraud, or financial crime certification preferred.

How We Take Care of You:

Competitive Salary & Stock Options
Health Benefits
New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card

Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.

Recruitment Privacy Policy

Benefits

Stock Options

Skills

AML Investigations

BSA/AML compliance

Transaction Monitoring

Sanctions screening

SAR Reporting

Securities Surveillance

Fraud Monitoring

KYC/CDD/EDD

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