Senior Analyst, AML Transaction Monitoring

Circle is a financial technology company at the epicenter of the emerging internet of money, where value can finally travel like other digital data — globally, nearly instantly and less expensively than legacy settlement systems. This ground-breaking new internet layer opens up previously unimaginable possibilities for payments, commerce and markets that can help raise global economic prosperity and enhance inclusion. Our infrastructure – including USDC, a blockchain-based dollar – helps businesses, institutions and developers harness these breakthroughs and capitalize on this major turning point in the evolution of money and technology.

What you’ll be part of:

Circle is committed to visibility and stability in everything we do. As we grow as an organization, we're expanding into some of the world's strongest jurisdictions. Speed and efficiency are motivators for our success and our employees live by our company values: High Integrity, Future Forward, Multistakeholder, Mindful, and Driven by Excellence. We have built a flexible and diverse work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.

What you’ll be responsible for: 

As a Senior Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Analyst, you’ll join our Investigation Operations (IO) team helping detect fraudulent activity, suspicious/illegal behaviors and patterns and drive projects focused on preventing and detecting financial crime. The ideal candidate is a highly motivated, inquisitive individual with a background in AML compliance, who enjoys analytical challenges and is passionate about blockchain technology.

What you'll work on:

• Investigating, analyzing and identifying activity which may lead to filing suspicious activity reports, as required by law, from AML alerts, enhanced monitoring reviews, and other L1 transaction monitoring reviews.

• Working cases, as-needed, and filing SARs/STRs when appropriate.

• Assisting in fulfilling requests from and providing support to, external parties, such as law enforcement and banking partners, and internal parties, such as policy, legal and Compliance Operations partners.

• Conducting screening and adverse media checks.

• Ensuring customers are compliant with the laws and regulations to satisfy Circle’s obligations to the appropriate regulatory authorities.

• Maintaining a strong operational focus with the ability to manage time sensitive workflows across competing priorities.

• Collaborating with policy and compliance data and technology teams to share trends and insights as well as providing suggestions to improve detection models, thresholds, and typology coverage to create greater efficiency and more valuable work products for the IO team.

• Understanding complex business problems, breaking down analytical projects into a structured approach and formalizing complex ideas into a well defined logic.

• Conducting training and providing feedback to TM analysts as needed.

What you’ll bring to Circle:

Core Requirements:

• 3+ years experience conducting AML alert review, investigation and applicable reporting, strong knowledge of AML regulations.

• Deep understanding of blockchain ecosystems, VASPs, and evolving global AML/CFT regulations.

• Strong organizational, analytical, written, and verbal communication skills with a close attention to detail and confidence to make a reasoned and supported decision.

• Experience analyzing large transactional data sets; SQL experience preferred.

• Works well under pressure and tight deadlines with an ability to prioritize workloads and ensure tasks are completed in a timely manner.

• Experience and comfort working in an ever changing industry and the flexibility to quickly react to changing demands.

• Proven experience working collaboratively and effectively with the ability to work with multiple stakeholders and internal teams.

• Interest and/or experience applying artificial intelligence, automation, or machine learning tools to optimize AML workflows, such as alert triage, data enrichment, and investigative analysis.

• Familiarity with generative AI models (ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.) and prompt development.

Preferred Requirements:

• B.A./B.S. degree; quantitative