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Alpaca is a US-headquartered global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40+ countries. The company provides institutional-grade APIs for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, and fixed income trading to broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, supporting over 10 million brokerage accounts. Backed by $400M in funding from top-tier investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, and Y Combinator, Alpaca operates a globally distributed team of 400+ members.
As an AML Compliance Analyst, you will join Alpaca's Financial Crimes team to safeguard customer integrity and financial market stability. Reporting to the AML Manager for Securities & Crypto, you will investigate suspicious activity, prepare Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) recommendations and narratives, and strengthen scalable, risk-based compliance controls across BSA/AML, sanctions, anti-fraud, and securities surveillance programs.
Key responsibilities include: investigating potentially suspicious transactions through monitoring alerts and escalations; screening individuals, entities, and transactions against OFAC, sanctions, PEP, and adverse media watchlists; responding to time-sensitive regulatory inquiries including FinCEN 314(a/b) requests and law enforcement queries; ensuring transaction monitoring alerts and investigations meet established deadlines and SLAs; supporting enhancements to transaction monitoring rules, policies, and risk frameworks; maintaining thorough audit trails and defensible documentation; identifying and escalating critical risks and compliance gaps; preparing clear SAR recommendations for management review and FinCEN filing; and partnering with internal stakeholders during risk assessments, audits, and regulatory engagements.
You will collaborate with globally-distributed teams to implement and strengthen the firm's Financial Crimes program across CIP/KYC, AML, anti-fraud, and fraud monitoring initiatives. The role requires maintaining meaningful working-hour overlap with US Eastern Time and strong knowledge of regulatory developments, financial crime typologies, trading behaviors, and regulatory expectations applicable to Alpaca's business.
