AML Compliance Analyst

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Who We Are:</strong></p> <p><strong>Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure </strong>for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br><strong>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.</strong><br><br><strong>Our Team Members:</strong></p> <p>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!<br><br>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.</p></div><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Your Role:</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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.<br><br>This position reports to the AML Manager for Securities & Crypto or the AMLCO's designee. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The role supports U.S.-based operations and requires daily working-hour overlap with U.S. Eastern Time, generally <strong>4:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m. IST</strong>, subject to U.S. daylight saving time adjustments.</span></p> <h3><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Things You Get To Do: </strong></span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span 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</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Investigate potentially suspicious activity through transaction monitoring alerts, escalations, and referrals</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ensure that transaction monitoring alerts, regulatory submissions, and case investigations are completed/submitted within the established deadlines and SLAs</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Screen individuals, entities, and transactions to assess potential matches against OFAC, global sanctions, PEP, enforcement, and advers