AML Investigations Specialist (Fintech)

Location: Guadalajara, Mexico; currently fully remote with a future transition to a hybrid setup.

Company

hirify.global is a hyper-growth fintech building AI-powered financial services, crypto-enabled remittances, and broader financial products for immigrant communities in the US.

What you will do

• Review and disposition transaction monitoring and screening alerts within SLA.
• Conduct end-to-end AML, sanctions, fraud, and financial crime investigations across onboarding, transaction monitoring, and post-transaction reviews.
• Analyze customer activity, transactional behavior, device intelligence, payment flows including blockchain where applicable, and external intelligence.
• Prepare investigative summaries and SAR recommendations, perform EDD and adverse media research, and escalate suspicious activity.
• Identify emerging money laundering, fraud, sanctions evasion, mule account, and synthetic identity patterns.
• Improve detection and operating processes through feedback to Product, Data, and Risk teams, documentation, audits, QA, training, and collaboration with Fraud and Compliance Operations.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience in AML investigations, transaction monitoring, fraud investigations, sanctions compliance, or financial crime operations.
• Strong understanding of AML/BSA concepts, customer due diligence, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, and suspicious activity investigations.
• Excellent analytical and investigative skills with the ability to connect multiple data points into clear, evidence-based conclusions.
• Strong written communication skills for investigative case documentation.
• Experience writing operational documentation such as procedures, case templates, or internal memos.
• Comfort working with large datasets, multiple systems, and evolving investigative tools.
• Curiosity, proactivity, comfort with ambiguity, sound risk judgment, ownership, attention to detail, and a continuous improvement mindset.
• Fluency in written and spoken English is required; Spanish proficiency is highly desirable.
• Equivalent competencies may be considered for the listed requirements.

Nice to have

• CAMS or an equivalent financial crime certification.
• Experience with cross-border payments, remittances, fintech, digital wallets, cryptocurrency, or embedded finance products.
• Experience using AI assistants or LLMs for research, investigations, documentation, or operational workflows.
• Familiarity with data analytics, prompt engineering, workflow automation, low-code/no-code tools, case management platforms, or workflow automation tools.
• Experience working with Product, Engineering, or Data Science teams.
• Experience supporting regulatory examinations or responding to law enforcement requests.
• Interest in using technology to rethink financial crime investigations.

Culture & Benefits

• Currently fully remote work with a future transition to a hybrid setup.
• Competitive salary, initial stock options grant, and annual performance bonus.
• Health, dental, and vision plans.
• Continuous learning opportunities and growth in an entrepreneurial environment.
• Unlimited PTO and paid parental leave.