Compliance Operations Manager, Transaction Monitoring

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CalizaFinancial crime compliance

United States, Ability to work hours that overlap with US Eastern and Brazil time zones.Full-TimeManager

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Languages: Professional working fluency in English.
Experience: 6+ years in AML, BSA, or financial crime compliance, with at least 3 years focused on transaction monitoring
Required Skills: SQL

Have 6+ years in AML, BSA, or financial crime compliance, including at least 3 years focused on transaction monitoring.
Bring transaction monitoring experience at a fintech, payments company, money services business, crypto business, or bank.
Have hands-on experience implementing or migrating a TM system, including writing requirements, testing rules, and launching with an engineering team.
Have a track record of writing and tuning AML rules and thresholds and documenting the rationale for examiners and auditors.
Know cross-border payment, remittance, and B2B money movement typologies, as well as fraud patterns in real-time payments.
Have direct experience making SAR decisions and filing with FinCEN, including narrative writing and continuing-activity reviews.
Have supported regulatory exams, independent audits, or bank partner due diligence on a TM program.
Be able to query transaction data in SQL and build analyses to support tuning decisions.
Write clearly and concisely and exercise defensible judgment in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.
Have professional working fluency in English.

Own the real-time transaction monitoring implementation and partner with Engineering to update requirements, run user acceptance testing, and enhance TM tooling.
Write and tune AML rules, scenarios, and thresholds across fiat and stablecoin flows and payment corridors.
Run above- and below-the-line testing and ongoing tuning to reduce false positives while maintaining coverage.
Maintain TM policies, procedures, investigation playbooks, QA standards, and model and rule validation documentation.
Define and report TM metrics for Compliance leadership and the Board.
Run daily alert triage, investigation workflows, case management, and disposition tracking.
Review held and pended transactions and decide whether to release, return, or escalate them; obtain information from customers and integrator partners.
Detect and investigate fraud patterns, including account takeover, authorized push payment and social engineering scams, mule activity, and first-party fraud.
Lead SAR and STR decisioning and filing across the US, Bermuda, and relevant LATAM jurisdictions.
Manage sanctions-adjacent escalations and law enforcement and partner-bank requests, and serve as the primary contact for TM questions from regulators, examiners, auditors, and banking partners.

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