AML Ops Lead - Transaction Monitoring
LemFi provides international payment products for immigrants, including multi-currency wallets, global money transfers, payment requests, and eSIM connectivity.
About LemFi
LemFi is a financial technology company offering international payment products designed to help immigrants thrive financially. Its services include multi-currency wallets, international money transfers to more than 30 countries, money requests and payment links, and eSIM connectivity. Transfers can be sent to bank accounts, mobile money, and other destinations, typically arriving within minutes.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
Lead a team of AML analysts responsible for transaction monitoring, financial crime investigations, quality reviews, performance management, process optimization, stakeholder engagement, and escalation of compliance risks.
Requirements
- 4-6 years of AML or Compliance operations experience
- Experience in AML transaction monitoring or financial crime investigations
- Experience in remittance, payments, or related environments
- Direct exposure to high-volume alert queues
- Experience leading or supervising analysts
- Working knowledge of OFAC, FCA, and FINTRAC regulations
- Ability to make defensible, risk-based decisions
- Adaptability to global operational needs
- Experience improving operational inefficiencies
- Strong written communication skills
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of AML analysts
- Oversee suspicious activity alert reviews and investigations
- Perform independent quality reviews of investigation decisions
- Track SLA, quality, and false-positive metrics
- Run regular 1:1s and address underperformance
- Identify process inefficiencies and drive improvements with compliance and engineering
- Partner on complex or high-risk cases
- Represent findings to senior stakeholders
- Stay current with AML typologies and regulatory expectations
- Escalate control weaknesses, high-risk cases, and tooling issues
