Senior Compliance Associate KYC
Paxos is a regulated blockchain infrastructure platform offering settlement, liquidity, and tokenization services.
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About Paxos
Paxos is a financial technology company that provides blockchain-based infrastructure solutions for the financial industry. It offers a platform for secure, fast, and cost-effective settlement of financial transactions and assets, enabling financial institutions to streamline operations and unlock new revenue opportunities. Paxos aims to modernize financial market infrastructure and make financial services more accessible.
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About the Role
You will independently perform KYC onboarding, ongoing due diligence, and enhanced due diligence reviews for individual and institutional customers. You will assess customer risk, document and escalate decisions, guide junior analysts, improve KYC processes and tools, partner with internal and external stakeholders, support audits, and use metrics, automation, and AI appropriately to strengthen operations.
Requirements
- Know US KYC requirements, including customer identification, beneficial ownership, CDD, EDD, customer risk rating, and ongoing due diligence
- Independently perform KYC reviews and assess complex cases using risk-based judgment
- Guide junior analysts
- Collaborate with Compliance, Product, Engineering, Data, and business teams
- Manage competing priorities, deadlines, blockers, and capacity constraints
- Contribute to KYC procedures and operational guidance
- Identify control gaps and support remediation, audits, or regulatory examinations
- Use operational metrics to identify backlog, quality, and turnaround-time concerns
- Communicate due diligence requirements and document risk assessments and recommendations
- Know AI and automation tools, including data protection and output verification
Responsibilities
- Perform KYC onboarding, ongoing due diligence, and enhanced due diligence reviews
- Assess customer information, document risk-based decisions, and escalate concerns with analysis and recommendations
- Guide junior analysts through knowledge sharing and feedback on review quality and documentation
- Contribute to KYC procedures and operational guidance
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Data, and business teams to resolve KYC challenges
- Communicate with enterprise partners, customers, and Compliance teams to resolve due diligence questions
- Identify control gaps and support remediation through root cause analysis, corrective actions, and evidence preparation
- Support audits and regulatory examinations with documentation and timely responses
- Identify and escalate KYC vendor issues and provide feedback on vendor services
- Improve KYC tools and workflows, support user acceptance testing, and implementation
- Use automation and AI appropriately to improve efficiency and control effectiveness
- Use operational metrics to prioritize work and address backlog, quality, and capacity concerns
- Support occasional weekend duty as business needs require
Benefits
- Equity
- Performance-based bonuses
- 10% annual bonus