Senior Specialist, FinCrime Compliance

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Deel is the all-in-one payroll and HR platform for global teams. Our vision is to unlock global opportunity for every person, team, and business. Built for the way the world works today, Deel combines HRIS, payroll, compliance, benefits, performance, and equipment management into one seamless platform. With AI-powered tools and a fully owned payroll infrastructure, Deel supports every worker type in 100+ countries—helping businesses scale smarter, faster, and more compliantly.

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As the fastest-growing Software as a Service (SaaS) company in history, Deel is transforming how global talent connects with world-class companies – breaking down borders that have traditionally limited both hiring and career opportunities. We're not just building software; we're creating the infrastructure for the future of work, enabling a more diverse and inclusive global economy. In 2024 alone, we paid $11.2 billion to workers in nearly 100 currencies and provided healthcare and benefits to workers in 109 countries—ensuring people get paid and protected, no matter where they are.

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Your experience at Deel will be a career accelerator. At the forefront of the global work revolution, you'll tackle complex challenges that impact millions of people's working lives. With our momentum—backed by a $12 billion valuation and $800  million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) in just over five years—you'll drive meaningful impact while building expertise that makes you a sought-after leader in the transformation of global work.

We are looking for experienced and skilled senior analysts and investigators to join the FinCrime Compliance team in the second line of defence. The ideal candidate would have strong financial crime risk knowledge, provide subject matter expertise in the financial crime and sanctions compliance monitoring field and guide other team members, if needed.

Responsibilities:

• Support the team in day to day activities proactively assisting with the efficient maintenance of existing processes and implementation of new FinCrime processes, demonstrating initiative and can-do attitude.

• Identify and investigate potential suspicious activities in relation to financial crime, handle in depth AML and fraud investigations, as well as ATO cases.

• Efficiently execute transaction monitoring tasks i.e. handling alerts triggered by transaction monitoring tools and high risk scenarios.

• Ensure investigations are completed to a high standard, including the preparation of high quality investigation reports and the accurate filing or logging of relevant supporting material.

• Handle escalations from various teams as per procedures, including EDD, PEP, Sanction and Adverse Media screenings and high risk scenarios.

• Handle requests for information from external sources i.e. subpoenas and law enforcement requests.

• Maintain the confidential information of our customers, our partners, and our business with the utmost integrity.

• Assist with providing payment-related compliance expertise to improve processes, tooling, and automation.

• Create and maintain thorough and clear documentation on procedures, incidents, risk analysis, as well as provide reporting to different levels of audience.

Requirements:

• You have 1-3+ years of experience in a high-volume output Compliance operations team 

• You are knowledgeable in the area of financial crime and sanctions compliance risk management and controls, you understand financial crime and sanctions compliance related regulations

• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills

• You are data-driven and have a structured approach to solving problems

• You are very organized and have an acute attention to detail

• You uphold a service-oriented mindset when working with internal and external teams

• You are willing to put in extra hours during our busy periods (typically around the end of month)

• You are able to work in an extremely fast-paced global environment while maintaining quality and accuracy