Financial Crimes Analyst

Job Description

We are looking for an analyst to join our Financial Crimes Team based in Singapore. In this role, you’ll handle a wide variety of anti-money laundering (AML), counter-terrorist financing (CTF), sanctions, and other financial crimes and regulatory compliance work in support of Stripe’s growing business.

Stripe is both a technology company and a financial services company, and you will need to be comfortable straddling both of those worlds every day. The right person for the role will enjoy dealing with that puzzle, seeking creative solutions and moving quickly, often in the face of ambiguity.

You will:

• Decision a variety of reviews, potentially including:
  1. Investigations into potential financial crime and Suspicious Activity Report filing
  2. Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) and Politically-exposed Person (PEP) reviews
  3. Partner due diligence reviews
• Support the team’s country and product expansion work in APAC, in launching and upgrading program requirements to meet each jurisdiction’s legal requirements and financial crime risk typologies
• Support the team on broader program building initiatives, such as system and process enhancements, automation, vendorization, training and governance
• Adhere to processes while still constantly questioning assumptions, suggesting improvements, and following up implementation of those improvements, such as in team workflows and processes
• Contribute to the improvement of intelligence and transaction monitoring models
• Act as the first point of contact in the team’s advisory function, communicating effectively with other Stripes, Stripe’s users
• Support the team’s responses to financial partners and regulators
• Develop and / or maintain team metrics to achieve oversight of efficiency and effectiveness of the program

Our ideal candidate will have:

• 2+ years experience in financial crimes, AML, risk, fraud, research, or a related field
• Strong research and investigation and decision making skills
• Demonstrate sound judgment and an ability to navigate non-binary, high-risk decisions
• Ability to work efficiently and independently in a fast-paced, high-volume and technology-driven environment
• Ability to work cross-functionally with internal stakeholders

Nice to haves:

• Financial Crimes or payments experience Excel or SQL abilities Familiarity with MacOS and Google products Local language skills of languages used by APAC markets, such as Japanese, Bahasa, Thai, Chinese, etc.