Risk Operations 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 financial crime and risk operations across fiat and stablecoin transactions. You will conduct customer due diligence, review transaction monitoring alerts, investigate unusual activity, assess sanctions and fraud risks, document evidence-based conclusions, support regulatory reporting, review blockchain transactions, maintain case records, perform quality checks, and improve compliance workflows and controls.
Requirements
- Experience in compliance AML financial crime risk operations KYC KYB or transaction monitoring
- Experience within a regulated financial institution EMI PI bank fintech or digital asset business
- Practical experience in KYC KYB CDD EDD and transaction monitoring
- Experience investigating transaction monitoring alerts and making risk-based decisions
- Understanding of AML CFT sanctions PEP and adverse media screening
- Experience with complex customer or transaction investigations
- Understanding of cross-border payments and payment flows
- Strong analytical and investigative skills
- Excellent written documentation and case-management skills
- Ability to work independently and make sound risk-based decisions
- Strong attention to detail and operational efficiency
Responsibilities
- Conduct KYC and KYB reviews for individuals and businesses
- Review corporate structures beneficial owners directors shareholders and source of funds or wealth
- Perform CDD and EDD on higher-risk customers and counterparties
- Conduct PEP sanctions and adverse media screening
- Assess customer risk and determine risk classifications
- Review and investigate transaction monitoring alerts
- Identify AML fraud sanctions and financial crime risks
- Analyse transaction history and customer behaviour
- Escalate suspicious activity and higher-risk cases
- Support STR and SAR preparation and regulatory reporting
- Review payment exceptions rejected transactions and unusual beneficiary activity
- Support controls for fiat-to-crypto and crypto-to-fiat flows
- Review blockchain transactions and wallet activity
- Use blockchain analytics and KYT tools
- Support Travel Rule compliance
- Maintain case documentation and audit trails
- Perform quality checks on compliance decisions
- Maintain SOPs workflows and compliance controls
- Support audits and produce operational reporting
- Improve compliance automation and tooling
