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Salary: USD 60,000 - 70,000 / annual
Vestwell is a financial technology company powering the savings economy across retirement, education, and healthcare. The company serves over 350,000 businesses and 2M active savers with $50B+ in assets across all 50 states.
You will join the Legal and Compliance Team as a Financial Crimes Compliance Associate, reporting to the Manager of Financial Crimes Compliance. This is an exempt individual contributor role focused on fraud detection and anti-money laundering operations across all three business lines. You will exercise independent judgment and analytical skills to monitor, analyze, and mitigate financial crime risk while ensuring regulatory compliance.
Key responsibilities include:
- Analyzing daily high-risk fraud indicators and surveillance reports to identify suspicious activity
- Identifying emerging fraud patterns and trends, communicating them for updates to reporting and training materials
- Interpreting financial crimes and anti-money laundering regulations and applying them to business operations and client activity
- Reviewing, researching, and responding to escalated surveillance and screening alerts; preparing detailed escalation memos
- Partnering with Client, Operations, and Services Teams to track, research, and resolve inquiries and complaints related to financial crimes
- Maintaining accurate records of suspicious activity investigations and preparing data for management and client reporting
- Collaborating on process improvements and compliance initiatives to enhance security reviews and scale financial crime mitigation strategies
- Exercising discretion when reviewing alerts, escalating issues, and recommending procedural improvements
You will work in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment with significant autonomy and cross-functional collaboration. The role has meaningful impact as the company scales.
REQUIREMENTS:
Must-have:
- Bachelor's degree in business, finance, or criminal justice
- Experience performing fraud detection or anti-money laundering functions
- Comfort working in a fast-paced startup environment with substantial autonomy
- Exceptional analytical and detail-oriented aptitude with high accuracy requirements
- Strong critical-thinking skills; ability to analyze information, identify patterns, and make evidence-based decisions
- Ability to manage time effectively, set priorities, and meet deadlines
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Proficiency with JIRA
- Experience with research tools like LexisNexis
Desirable:
- Experience at a financial institution, fintech, or high-growth startup
- Experience drafting SARs or responding to FinCEN 314(a) requests
- Familiarity with identity-verification platforms such as Plaid or Persona
