Compliance Operations Manager, Transaction Monitoring (Fully Remote)

Caliza; United States; Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

PTO and holidays

Home office allowance

Equipment allowance

Professional development budget

Team offsites

Job summary

Caliza is seeking a senior analyst to own and advance its real-time transaction monitoring program. You will partner with Engineering to improve TM tooling and ensure comprehensive coverage across fiat and stablecoin flows, while defining and reporting metrics to Compliance leadership and the Board.

You will run daily alert triage, investigations, and case management, including SAR/STR decisioning for multiple jurisdictions.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in AML/BSA or financial crime compliance.
• Hands-on experience implementing or migrating a TM system and writing AML rules.
• Strong data skills, including SQL, and clear communication for audits and exams.

Responsibilities

• Build and own the real-time transaction monitoring program from rule writing to tuning and testing.
• Run daily alert triage, investigations, and case management, including reviewing held transactions.
• Lead SAR and STR decisioning and filing for US, Bermuda, Brazil, and Mexico.
• Partner with Engineering to enhance TM tooling and ensure best-in-class coverage across fiat and stablecoin flows.
• Define and report TM metrics to Compliance leadership and the Board.

Skills

AML/BSA

SQL

Rule writing

Transaction monitoring

Tools

TM tooling

Job description

• Build and own the real-time transaction monitoring program, from rule writing to tuning and testing.
• Partner with Engineering to enhance TM tooling and ensure best-in-class coverage across fiat and stablecoin flows.
• Define and report TM metrics to Compliance leadership and the Board.

What You'll Do:

• Run daily alert triage, investigations, and case management, including reviewing held transactions.
• Lead SAR and STR decisioning and filing for US, Bermuda, Brazil, and Mexico.
• Manage sanctions-adjacent escalations and requests from law enforcement and partner banks.

What You'll Bring:

• 6+ years in AML/BSA or financial crime compliance, with at least 3 years focused on transaction monitoring.
• Hands-on experience implementing or migrating a TM system and writing AML rules.
• Strong data skills, including SQL, and clear communication for audits and exams.
• Health coverage, PTO and holidays, home office/equipment allowance, and professional development budget.
• In-person team offsites with a distributed remote team.
• Benefits vary by country of employment.

Caliza builds commercial banking infrastructure for cross-border businesses, offering USD accounts, multi-currency payments, and stablecoin conversion via a single API. It's a venture-backed fintech backed by Initialized Capital and QED Investors, with a team that has built financial infrastructure at Visa, Nubank, and other major companies.