Compliance Analyst (Transaction Monitoring & Screening)

Location: Hybrid in Warsaw, Poland, with 3 days per week expected in the Warsaw office

Company

hirify.global provides global payments technology and cross-border money movement solutions through hirify.global Cross-Border Solutions.

What you will do

• Investigate complex financial crime alerts, customer activity, and higher-risk scenarios across transaction monitoring and sanctions screening.
• Analyse transactional behaviour, customer risk indicators, sanctions exposure, fraud risks, and financial crime typologies.
• Review evidence from internal systems, RFI responses, supporting documents, and external sources to determine investigation outcomes.
• Prepare investigation narratives covering evidence, judgement, escalation rationale, and recommended outcomes.
• Support suspicious activity and sanctions escalation processes, quality assurance, calibration, audits, and governance requests.
• Identify false-positive drivers, process gaps, and control improvements while contributing to rule optimisation and typology development.

Requirements

• Experience in AML, financial crime investigations, transaction monitoring, sanctions compliance, or related risk-based compliance operations.
• Strong ability to assess financial crime risk and interpret complex or incomplete transaction information.
• Excellent investigation, written communication, and case narrative skills.
• Ability to make sound risk-based decisions and clearly explain the rationale.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills, including the ability to work under pressure accurately.
• Experience coaching, mentoring, or supporting junior colleagues.

Nice to have

• ACAMS, ICA, sanctions, or equivalent financial crime qualification.
• Experience in payments, fintech, banking, e-money, or cross-border financial services.
• Knowledge of AML typologies, sanctions frameworks, ownership and control concepts, PEP screening, adverse media, and fraud risk indicators.
• Experience with quality assurance, calibration, process improvement, audit, governance, or control effectiveness reviews.
• Experience with rule refinement, false-positive reduction, typology development, or operational readiness.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working arrangement with regular collaboration from the Warsaw office.
• Work within the Financial Crime Operations function supporting secure and compliant global money movement.
• Collaboration with Compliance, Product, Technology, Operations, clients, auditors, regulators, and senior stakeholders.
• Exposure to sanctions developments, AML typologies, fraud indicators, and evolving regulatory expectations.