Compliance Specialist
Merge helps Web3 companies access banking and payment services by providing APIs that bridge fiat and cryptocurrency ecosystems.
Funding history
About Merge
Merge helps Web3 and crypto companies access traditional financial services by providing API-based banking and payment infrastructure. Users can create bank accounts, send global payments, and convert between fiat and stablecoins through a single integration. Merge addresses regulatory compliance challenges while enabling crypto businesses to operate with tier-1 banking partners.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will support day-to-day compliance execution across AML/CFT, sanctions, customer reviews, and transaction monitoring. You will handle escalated cases, review STR/SAR matters, monitor regulatory developments, support audits, assess controls, and produce management reporting.
Requirements
- Experience in compliance, financial crime, or AML within a regulated financial institution, EMI, PI, bank, fintech, or digital-asset business
- Knowledge of UK and EU AML/CFT regulation, sanctions regimes, and SAR/STR obligations
- Experience reviewing escalated KYC/KYB, EDD, or transaction-monitoring cases
- Ability to translate regulatory requirements into policy and process
- Risk-based judgment
- Interest in digital assets and stablecoins within AML frameworks
Responsibilities
- Support development and maintenance of AML/CFT, sanctions, and financial-crime policies and procedures
- Escalate higher-risk KYC/KYB, EDD, and transaction-monitoring cases
- Review and approve STR/SAR cases before regulatory filing
- Monitor UK and EU AML, MiCA, CASP, and Travel Rule developments
- Support internal and regulatory audits and respond to information requests
- Review KYC, transaction-monitoring, and sanctions-screening controls
- Produce compliance reporting for senior management and the Board or Risk Committee
