AML Investigations Specialist (Fintech)

Location: Bogotá, Colombia. Currently fully remote, with a future transition to a hybrid setup.

Company

hirify.global is a hyper-growth Series C fintech building AI-powered financial infrastructure and cross-border money movement products for Latino 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, transaction behavior, device intelligence, payment flows including blockchain where applicable, and external intelligence.
• Escalate suspicious activity and prepare investigative summaries and SAR recommendations; perform EDD and adverse media research.
• Identify emerging money laundering, fraud, sanctions evasion, mule account, and synthetic identity patterns.
• Provide feedback to Product, Data, and Risk teams; maintain procedures and support FinCrime, Fraud, and Compliance Operations coordination.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience in AML investigations, transaction monitoring, fraud investigations, sanctions compliance, or financial crime operations.
• Experience in a fintech, payments company, digital bank, crypto platform, or other fast-paced financial institution is strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of AML/BSA concepts, customer due diligence, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, and suspicious activity investigations.
• Strong analytical and investigative skills, including connecting multiple data points into clear, evidence-based conclusions.
• Strong written communication skills, especially for investigative case documentation.
• Experience writing procedures, case templates, internal memos, or other operational documentation.
• 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.

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

• Competitive salary, initial stock options grant, and annual performance bonus.
• Health, dental, and vision plans; paid parental leave; and unlimited PTO.
• Continuous learning opportunities and growth in a dynamic entrepreneurial environment.
• Currently fully remote, with a future transition to a hybrid setup.
• Culture focused on ownership, urgency, transparency, collaboration without ego, experimentation, and continuous improvement.