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Compliance Operations Manager, Transaction Monitoring

5 days, 10 hours ago
United States, Latin America
Full-time
Lead
Compliance Manager
Operations
SQL
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Caliza

Caliza

Caliza provides a financial platform that facilitates global business expansion through instant cross-border transfers, payout orchestration, and enterprise-grade stablecoin infrastructure, while ensuring strict regulatory compliance and data protection.

Diversified Financial Services
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Founded 2021
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Description

  • Own and enhance the real-time transaction monitoring implementation with Engineering, including requirements and user acceptance testing.
  • Write, tune, and validate AML rules, scenarios, and thresholds across fiat and stablecoin flows.
  • Conduct above- and below-the-line testing to reduce false positives while maintaining coverage.
  • Maintain transaction-monitoring policies, procedures, investigation playbooks, QA standards, and validation documentation.
  • Define and report transaction-monitoring metrics for Compliance leadership and the Board.
  • Manage daily alert triage, investigations, case management, disposition tracking, and held or pended transaction decisions.
  • Investigate fraud patterns, including account takeover, payment scams, mule activity, and first-party fraud.
  • Lead SAR and STR decisioning and filings across US, Bermuda, Brazil, Mexico, and other relevant jurisdictions.
  • Manage sanctions-related escalations and information requests from law enforcement and banking partners.
  • Serve as the primary transaction-monitoring contact for regulators, auditors, and correspondent and sponsor banks; build and lead a TM analyst team as volumes grow.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of AML, BSA, or financial-crime compliance experience, including 3+ years in transaction monitoring within a fintech, payments company, money services business, crypto business, or bank.
  • Hands-on experience implementing or migrating a transaction-monitoring system with an engineering team.
  • Experience writing and tuning AML rules and thresholds and documenting rationale for auditors and examiners.
  • Knowledge of cross-border payments, remittances, B2B money-movement typologies, and real-time payment fraud.
  • Direct experience making and filing SARs with FinCEN, including narrative writing and continuing-activity reviews.
  • Experience supporting regulatory examinations, independent audits, or bank-partner due diligence for transaction monitoring.
  • Ability to query transaction data in SQL and analyze results to support tuning decisions.
  • Professional working fluency in English; Spanish or Portuguese is strongly preferred.
  • Ability to work hours overlapping with US Eastern and Brazil time zones.
  • Experience with stablecoin or digital-asset monitoring, on-chain analytics, or Travel Rule compliance is preferred; CAMS, CFE, CAMS-FCI, CCI, or CAMS-Audit certification is a plus.

Benefits

  • Health coverage, depending on country of employment.
  • Paid time off and holidays.
  • Home office or equipment allowance.
  • Professional development budget.
  • In-person team offsites.
  • Employment and benefits structured in line with local law and market practice for international hires.

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