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Treliant is an essential consulting firm serving banks, mortgage originators and servicers, fintechs, and other companies providing financial services globally. We are led by practitioners from the industry and the regulatory community who bring deep domain knowledge to help our clients drive business change and address the most pressing compliance, regulatory, and operational challenges.
We provide data-driven, technology-enabled consulting, implementation, staffing, and managed services solutions to the regulatory compliance, risk, credit, financial crimes, and capital markets functions of our clients.
Founded in 2005, Treliant is headquartered in Washington, DC, with offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Treliant is committed to fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment that values and embraces all races, religions, ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnicities, languages, nationalities, political parties, socioeconomic groups and other characteristics that inform an individual's worldview, experiences and system of beliefs (“the principles”). We believe in championing every voice and ensuring everyone’s full potential.

Treliant’s Financial Crimes and Fraud Services business unit is looking for AML/KYC/Sanctions Analysts for a multi-year client engagement.  This is an onsite opportunity, and all work will be conducted at a Treliant site in San Antonio, TX.  Job specific training will be provided, as appropriate.

While the scope of each project may be different, your duties & responsibilities may include: 

1. Customer and transaction name screening.
1. Accurately decision alerts generated for customers and/or transactions who appear to be matches to individuals or entities on designated lists (e.g., Politically Exposed Persons (PEP) watchlists, OFAC Specially Designated National and Blocked Persons lists, adverse media databases, etc.).
2. Obtain documentation as necessary to support dispositions.
3. Draft brief narratives on decision outcomes, mitigating factors, and rationale.
2. Know Your Customer (KYC).
1. Perform reviews of customer meeting certain high risk criteria to verify identification details, assess account transactional activity, perform open source research on customer/counterparties, and develop and document an understanding of the customer’s KYC risk profile.
2. Conduct periodic refresh of KYC profiles to ensure that the understanding of the customer is current, and where applicable, remediate KYC files.
3. Transaction monitoring alert deposition, investigation and Suspicious Activity Reporting.
1. Conduct and perform review of alerted transaction activity involving “mobile app” payments (i.e., person-to-person, person-to-business, business-to-business) in accordance to define procedures.
2. Review of deposit, investment, or crypto transactions via mobile and online platforms.
3. Conduct due diligence via open source and commercial databases.
4. Determine if transactions appear unusual or potentially suspicious or pose financial crime risks (i.e., money laundering, fraud, human trafficking, child exploitation, unlawful gambling, online scams, etc.).
5. Draft narratives that highlight investigative results and making escalation/filing recommendations.
6. Prepare, edit, and file Suspicious Activity Reports.
7. Conduct ongoing reviews to determine if previously identified suspicious activity is continuing.

• 1-3 years of experience in financial crimes compliance (AML/BSA) preferred.
• Prior experience in the FinTech, Crypto, or payments space or experience in AML compliance operations (e.g., alert triage, negative news, name screening, or sanctions transaction filtering operations) also preferred.
• Ability to adhere to defined procedures and meet Service Level Agreement and daily productions goals.
• Recent college graduates eager to learn with interest in working with financial technology companies will also be considered. Training will be provided.
• Ability to work 40 hours/week onsite.

Primary Location: San Antonio, TX onsite

Primary Location Salary Range: $20/hr - $25/hr

Treliant offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefit package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.  In addition to a competitive base salary, candidate is eligible for incentive pay as well as a full range of health benefits, vacation plan, and 401k plan.

If you want to be part of a dynamic team of professionals, we invite you to join the team at Treliant.  We invest in people, and challenge you to advance your career while achieving your aspirations and goals.  Here at Treliant, we pride ourselves on our collaborative team culture, where we embrace diversity of thought and innovation.  If you strive for excellence and seek an inclusive environment apply on line treliant.com and follow us on LinkedIn. 

Right to Work

Treliant is not in the position to provide sponsorship for this current position and so applicants must be able to work in the United States without requiring sponsorship.

Please note, Treliant receives a high volume of applications for all roles. While we will endeavor to respond to all applicants, this is not always possible. Should you not receive a response to your application within 2 weeks, it is likely that you will have been unsuccessful on this occasion. However, we would like to retain your details on our systems and may contact you should another potentially suitable vacancy arise.

Treliant LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, religion, age, disability, or military status in employment or provision of services. When contacted for an interview, an applicant who requires special accommodations due to a disability should notify the office so that proper arrangements can be made.