FinTech AML Investigations Specialist (Remote, AI-Driven)

Félix; Buenos Aires; Remote; ARS 123,879,000 - 185,819,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Initial stock options grant

Annual performance bonus

Health, dental, and vision plans

Continuous learning opportunities

Unlimited PTO

Paid parental leave

Fully remote now, future hybrid

Job summary

Félix is building the next generation of financial services for immigrant communities. We are seeking an AML Investigations Specialist to protect our platform from money laundering, fraud, sanctions evasion, and other financial crimes while enabling millions of legitimate users to move money quickly and safely.

You will conduct investigations across onboarding and transactions, use AI to speed up research, draft procedures, and collaborate with Fraud and Compliance Operations.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience in AML investigations, transaction monitoring, fraud investigations, sanctions compliance, or financial crime operations.

Responsibilities

• Review and disposition transaction monitoring and screening alerts within SLA.
• Conduct end-to-end AML, sanctions, fraud, and financial crime investigations across customer onboarding, transaction monitoring, and post-transaction reviews.
• Analyze customer activity, transactional behavior, device intelligence, payment flows, and external intelligence to identify suspicious activity.
• Escalate potentially suspicious activity and prepare clear, well-supported investigative summaries and SAR recommendations.
• Perform Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) and adverse media research on higher-risk customers and transactions.
• Identify and elevate emerging money laundering, fraud, sanctions evasion, mule account, and synthetic identity patterns relevant to fintech and cross-border payments.
• Provide feedback to Product, Data, and Risk teams on rule performance and false positives.
• Use AI tools responsibly to improve investigation quality, research, documentation, and productivity while maintaining sound investigative judgment.
• Draft and maintain investigation procedures, SOPs, memos, and knowledge articles.
• Support the joint operating model between FinCrime, Fraud, and Compliance Operations, including documenting handoffs and escalation paths.
• Participate in regulatory examinations, audits, internal QA reviews, and periodic training activities, as required.
• Contribute to building an increasingly automated, intelligence-driven Financial Crimes function.

Skills

AML investigations

Transaction monitoring

Sanctions compliance

Financial crime

English fluency

Job description

Félix is building the next generation of financial services for immigrant communities. We are seeking an AML Investigations Specialist to protect our platform from money laundering, fraud, sanctions evasion, and other financial crimes while enabling millions of legitimate users to move money quickly and safely.

You will conduct investigations across onboarding and transactions, use AI to speed up research, draft procedures, and collaborate with Fraud and Compliance Operations.