About the role
Mercury is building a complete finance stack for startups. We work hard to create the easiest and safest banking* experience possible to simplify entrepreneurs' and business owners' financial lives. The challenge is to do so while ensuring we protect Mercury, customers, and the broader financial ecosystem from bad actors and harmful, illegal, or unauthorized activities.
Mercury builds banking* for ambitious entrepreneurs. While we’re not a bank ourselves, our work sits within the broader U.S. financial system — and with that comes a responsibility to help keep it safe. That means building thoughtful systems and processes that root out bad actors, prevent abuse, and protect access for the founders and companies we’re here to serve.
The BSA/AML & Sanctions compliance team serves as the oversight function for Mercury's overall AML & Sanctions program. As Financial Crimes Compliance Modeling & Analytics Manager, you'll help drive enhancements to Mercury's financial crimes compliance (FCC) detection and screening models and improve the overall FCC framework. You'll play a key role in developing, tuning, and maintaining Mercury's transaction monitoring (TM) and Sanctions models, and in building the analytics and metrics that track the health of FCC programs. This technical role requires a strong analytical background and FCC subject-matter expertise, and will collaborate closely with risk strategy, engineering, and compliance teams.
*Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC.
As part of the journey, we would expect you to:
- Use SQL and other analytical tools to conduct in-depth analysis of Mercury's customers, transactions, alerts, TM rules, risk ratings, and more
- Use data-driven methods to improve, design, implement, and maintain Mercury's FCC models, including transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, and relevant models
- Develop bespoke transaction monitoring rules and sanctions screening logic designed to address Mercury's specific AML and sanctions risk
- Partner with Compliance, Product, and Data leaders to translate regulatory requirements into effective analytical frameworks