Sr. Analyst supports Airbnb’s payments compliance activities. This position is responsible for managing high volumes of alerts and/or cases generated by multiple queues to satisfy processes required by AML, Economic Sanctions Enforcement and other compliance programs. This role ensures that day-to-day compliance activities relating to these programs are maintained to a high standard.
A Typical Day:
- Review and investigate alerts or cases escalated from various sources to provide supporting documentation and narratives to aid with determining if activities are unusual or out of character.
- Manage large volumes of incoming cases and execute decisions under pressure of tight deadlines and regulatory time frames for TMIR.
- Leverage open and closed source systems to decide potential matches in the relating queues.
- Compile appropriate case notes and other documentation to support review, completed steps, recommended determinations, etc.
- Gather relevant and applicable on and off-platform data and objective information to support a subjective determination to support a case through its lifecycle.
- Prepare detailed reporting to support independent decisions & justification for escalations and de-escalations including extensive supporting documentation and comprehensive narratives.
- Assist in the assessment of potential risks, patterns and trends based on case review and investigations completed.
- Assist and support leadership with procedure and workflow changes that may impact multiple teams and/or regions with the support of your manager.
- Identify accurately and escalate compliance risks and opportunities to the ComplianceManagement.
Your Expertise:
- Bachelor’s Degree or Technical Equivalent.
- 3-5 years compliance operations experience in payments, banking, or e-commerce with 1+ years working in Sanctions and PEP screening/decisioning.
- Fundamental knowledge of counter terrorist financing, anti-money laundering andanti-fraud, and anti-bribery and corruption typologies related to the payments ande-commerce space.
- Strong systems thinker.
- Superior communication skills both written and verbal.
- Strong ability to think clearly and rationally in order to understand logical connections between various data points.
- Strong problem solving skills with an emphasis in adaptability and resilience.
- Ability to clearly articulate complex case patterns.
- Ability to gather objective information and make a subjective determination and be able to defend that determination both verbally and textually.
- Ability to work closely and build trust with your team and other teams.
- Exceptional organization and process management ability.
- High level of personal integrity, interest in payments as evidenced by related work experience, proven dedication to excellence, leadership qualities and a flexible, creative, innovative approach to problem solving.
- Ability and desire to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Familiarity with SQL, excel and data querying skills is a huge preference.