Senior Analyst, KYC Operations

Circle (NYSE: CRCL) is one of the world’s leading internet financial platform companies, building the foundation of a more open, global economy through digital assets, payment applications, and programmable blockchain infrastructure. Circle’s platform includes the world’s largest regulated stablecoin network anchored by USDC, Circle Payments Network for global money movement, and Arc, an enterprise-grade blockchain designed to become the Economic OS for the internet. Enterprises, financial institutions, and developers use Circle to power trusted, internet-scale financial innovation. Learn more at circle.com. 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 work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder. What you’ll be responsible for: Circle is looking for a Senior Analyst, to join its Compliance Operations team and conduct complex reviews and projects in Circle’s KYC team. The Senior Analyst, KYC is responsible for conducting detailed customer onboarding, including enhanced due diligence, and on-going periodic reviews. You’ll operate at the intersection of some of the most innovative products and customers and support Circle’s efforts to ensure the safety of its platform through in-depth customer investigations and continuous monitoring of various threat vectors across the KYC landscape. What you'll work on:  Reviewing higher and high risk client relationships to ensure that customer due diligence is complete and accurate and meets applicable specialized and enhanced due diligence requirements.  On-going monitoring of customers, including counterparty compliance calls, assessing of transactional activity, collecting and testing samples of customer files Updating internal records to enrich customer KYC files. Ensuring the customer's nature of business aligns with their business models and profiles.  Escalating and drafting executive level risk acceptance memos for customers with red flags and higher risk attributes and succinctly summarizing findings and next steps. Partnering with key internal stakeholders including business teams and other control functions to monitor client relationships on an ongoing basis and ensure compliance with regulatory expectations. Partnering with team leads within the region to facilitate knowledge sharing.  Monitoring industry trends relative to money laundering or fraud schemes including detection and reporting of suspicious activity. Performing any general administration and ancillary activities as may be required and related to the above functions in accordance with the business requirements of the Company.