AML Investigations Specialist (Fintech)

Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina. Currently fully remote, with a future transition to a hybrid setup.

Company

Félix builds AI-powered financial services and cross-border payment infrastructure for Latino immigrant communities in the US, including remittances, credit, savings, and wallet services.

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, transaction 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 operations through feedback to Product, Data, and Risk teams; maintain procedures and support coordination across FinCrime, 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.
• Strong analytical and investigative skills, including the ability to connect multiple data points into clear, evidence-based conclusions.
• Strong written communication skills for investigative documentation and experience writing procedures, case templates, or internal memos.
• Comfort working with large datasets, multiple systems, and evolving investigative tools.
• Curiosity, proactivity, 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.

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, supporting regulatory examinations, or responding to law-enforcement requests.

Culture & Benefits

• Currently fully remote, with a planned future transition to a hybrid work model.
• Competitive salary, initial stock options grant, and annual performance bonus.
• Health, dental, and vision plans.
• Continuous learning opportunities, unlimited PTO, and paid parental leave.
• Growth opportunities in a dynamic entrepreneurial environment focused on ownership, transparency, collaboration, experimentation, and customer impact.