Chief AML Advisory & Compliance Strategy

Rozgoo; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercury, a U.S. fintech, seeks a Head of AML Advisory to lead the BSA/AML program and advise across KYC, monitoring, and risk areas. The role requires strong cross-functional work with risk strategy, product, and engineering teams to ensure compliant growth.

The ideal candidate will drive governance, policy development, and training, while coordinating with regulators, partners, and internal stakeholders in a highly regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8+ years experience building and designing BSA/AML governance and policy programs at fintechs, traditional financial institutions, or ideally both

Responsibilities

• Help to develop Mercury’s BSA/AML program, including supporting policy, control, governance, and training development
• Work closely with the BSA/AML and Sanctions Compliance Officer, existing operational AML/BSA and KYC teams, and Product Compliance managers on aligning policies with implementation and addressing escalation
• Partner across Compliance, Risk, Legal, and Product, among other teams, to help guide Mercury’s growth in a highly-regulated space
• Serve as a champion and conduit for BSA/AML and KYC priorities across the company, and provide advisory to business partners as needed
• Maintain an inventory of BSA/AML requirements; execute gap assessments and change management assessments as required, to ensure compliance with expectations from regulators, partner institutions, and Mercury’s policies
• Support the execution of the AML/BSA and KYC Risk Assessments

Skills

BSA/AML governance

Job description

Mercury, a U.S. fintech, seeks a Head of AML Advisory to lead the BSA/AML program and advise across KYC, monitoring, and risk areas. The role requires strong cross-functional work with risk strategy, product, and engineering teams to ensure compliant growth.

The ideal candidate will drive governance, policy development, and training, while coordinating with regulators, partners, and internal stakeholders in a highly regulated environment.