Financial Crimes Analyst

The Role
We are hiring for our founding financial crimes compliance analyst, reporting to the Deputy Bank Secrecy Act Officer (DBSAO). This role is crucial to avoiding any transaction monitoring backlog, as these alerts require immediate review and disposition or escalation. You will be responsible for day to day alert clearing, and over time will move to case investigations & ultimately SAR filings. In addition, you support various crucial risk assessment and compliance workstreams by performing case reviews and trend analysis, preparing metrics and managing reports, as well as other operational tasks.

Your First Six Months
Months 1-2: You learn the Transaction Monitoring program and begin processing, reviewing and clearing alerts with supervision.

Months 3-4: You recommend adjustments to transaction monitoring rules based on analysis of false positives.

Months 5-6: You draft updated desktop guidance for case investigation while continuing to execute on alert escalation, SLA adherence and tuning.

Who Will Thrive At Augustus
We believe that throwing smart people with high agency at big problems produces the best outcomes. The people who succeed here share the following traits:

Relentless: You can't leave something broken. You don't stop because it got hard or because no one is watching.

Set The Bar: You're harder on yourself than anyone else would be. You don't need external accountability to care about quality.

Shape The Game: You don't wait for a playbook and you don't need one. You walk into genuinely new territory and figure it out. You move before anyone asked you to.

Systems First: You don't solve problems by adding people or effort. You build systems that make the problem smaller. Your first instinct is to automate, not to handle it manually.

This role is for you if:

You see an alert pattern of false positives, your first instinct is "What rule or model needs adjustment?", not "We need more analysts."

You want to be a part of building the BSA/AML engine, not maintain an existing one. Compliance not only executes the operation, we define the logic which drives the engine, and ultimately own the outcomes of every decision.

You get excited about identifying new typologies and providing the analytical fire power behind stopping them. When you see something that should have a new rule or model tied to it, you draft the requirements quickly and put in motion the deployment of what we need for the near and long term.

You are process driven and focus on the ultimate outcome, while also thinking about the most efficient and effective way to achieve those outcomes.

This is not for you if:

You are looking to be a cog in a larger wheel. Our operation is lean by design, we are intentional and analytical with both resources and technology.

You’re at your best in environments where processes have been in place for years and are not open to disruption.

You crave manual effort over automated processes.

Hard Requirements
Exceptional English.

Based in New York or willing to relocate, ideally able to start in October.

Experience working on data and trend analysis, as well as AI implementation.

Financial understanding, ideally in an international, high risk environment, is a plus.