Financial Crimes Investigations Lead, Americas

Job Description: • Lead a team of Financial Crime Analysts located across the Americas region (US, Canada, and Latin America) • Provide guidance and support to the Americas team, in order to conduct a wide variety of analyses, potentially including: • Investigations into money laundering, terrorist financing and other financial crimes and reporting of this activity through Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) or Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs) • Conduct OFAC and BIS screening ("watchlist") and sanctioned jurisdictions screening (“keyword”) reviews, manually reviewing Stripe merchant accounts, and reviewing investigations work products, as part of Stripe’s sanctions program • Assessments of customer risks, including KYC and Due Diligence investigations for high risk customers, inclusive of Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) • Management of customer risk to Stripe, including the assessment of user retention and offboarding of users • Assist the team in the investigation and response to requests for information from banking and financial partners, including the direct management of financial partner relationships • Drive complex intelligence investigations and analytical workstreams, coordinating with Stripe’s Complex and Major investigations teams • Demonstrate sound judgment and an ability to navigate non-binary, high-risk decisions, and effectively communicate these decisions to the wider team • Adhere closely to process while still constantly questioning assumptions, suggesting improvements, and following up implementation of those improvements • Effectively and clearly communicate, including with other Stripes, Stripe's users, and Stripe's financial partners • Demonstrate ownership of the Americas Financial Crimes program, and constantly seek improvements and accountability both within the team, as well as with our Financial Crimes Operations teams. Requirements: • 5+ years experience in investigations, operations, or advisory roles within financial crimes, AML, sanctions, risk, fraud, research, or a related field • 2+ years experience leading financial crimes investigation teams of varying size and complexity • Investigative expertise and strong knowledge of BSA, AML, US Patriot Act, and OFAC regulations • Excellent research and writing skills • Ability to synthesize large amounts of information, including transaction data • Ability to work efficiently and independently in a fast-paced environment • Ability to work cross-functionally with internal stakeholders. Benefits: • Health insurance • Professional development Apply tot his job