Senior Compliance Analyst

ACA Group; United States; On-site; USD 59,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

ACA Group, a leading GRC advisor in financial services, seeks an AML/KYC Senior Analyst to support investor onboarding and lifecycle due diligence, focusing on private fund KYC, documentation review, entity verification, and file completion. This production-oriented role requires applying SOPs, meeting SLA targets, and documenting findings clearly.

The ideal candidate has 2–4 years of AML/KYC or related experience, with familiarity of institutional investor documentation and a meticulous,

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of AML/KYC, compliance, or financial services experience.
• Prior experience supporting onboarding and due diligence workflows.
• Familiar with institutional investor documentation and entity structures.
• Strong attention to detail, file organization discipline, and ability to work in SLA-driven environments.
• Willingness to learn and expand AML/KYC expertise.

Responsibilities

• Perform investor intake, document collection, review, and verification.
• Execute AML/KYC tasks in accordance with SOPs.
• Handle lower-complexity onboarding or lifecycle cases.
• Clearly document findings and decisions.
• Escalate issues or data gaps following defined guidelines.
• Meet productivity, quality, SLA, and turnaround time targets.

Skills

AML/KYC experience

Onboarding workflows

Documentation review

Attention to detail

SLA-driven work

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

ACA Group is the leading governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) advisor in financial services. We empower our clients to reimagine GRC and protect and grow their business. Our innovative approach integrates consulting, managed services, and our ComplianceAlpha® technology platform with the specialized expertise of former regulators and practitioners and our deep understanding of the global regulatory landscape.

The Opportunity:

The AML/KYC Senior Analyst supports the day-to-day execution of the investor onboarding and lifecycle due diligence. This role is focused specifically on private fund investor KYC, including intake, documentation review, entity verification, screening, and file completion, day-to-day production activities supporting investor onboarding and lifecycle monitoring. This role executes defined procedures while developing deeper AML/KYC expertise and supporting SLA-driven workstreams. Senior Analysts execute defined onboarding procedures across a range of investor types, ensuring subscription-related due diligence files are complete, accurate, and compliant with applicable AML requirements and internal standards.

This role is production-oriented and SLA-driven, with responsibility for identifying documentation gaps, escalating risk triggers, and maintaining high-quality case documentation across onboarding volumes.

What you’ll do:

• Perform investor intake, document collection, review, and verification.
• Execute AML/KYC tasks in accordance with SOPs.
• Handle lower-complexity onboarding or lifecycle cases.
• Clearly document findings and decisions.
• Escalate issues or data gaps following defined guidelines.
• Meet productivity, quality, SLA, and turnaround time targets.

To Qualify for the role, you will have:

• 2-4 years of AML/KYC, compliance, or financial services experience.
• Prior experience supporting onboarding and due diligence workflows.
• Familiar with institutional investor documentation and entity structures.
• Strong attention to detail, file organization discipline, and ability to work in SLA-driven environments.
• Willingness to learn and expand AML/KYC expertise.

Ideally, you’ll also have:

• Major or concentration in compliance, criminal justice, law, business, accounting, finance, and/or economics preferred.

Skills and Attributes for Success:

• Demonstrated professional integrity
• Dependable, flexible, and adaptable to new ACA initiatives and changing client needs
• Ability to exercise discretion and make independent judgments on matters of significance
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, small team environment
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues and clients
• Highly motivated and goal oriented; pro-active in one’s own education and career progression; volunteers for and shows initiative on both internal and external projects and tasks
• Dedicated to upholding ACA’s high-quality standards and customer service focus
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Proficient with Microsoft Office applications and comfortable working in a tech enabled environment.

What working at ACA offers:

We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. Our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options as well as a flexible work environment. You’ll also be granted time off for designated ACA Paid Holidays, Summer Fridays, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being. We also offer unique benefits such as Student Debt Forgiveness and Pet Insurance.

What we commit to:

ACA is firmly committed to a policy of nondiscrimination, which applies to recruiting, hiring, placement, promotions, training, discipline, terminations, layoffs, transfers, leaves of absence, compensation and all other terms and conditions of employment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.

Salary Range: $65,000.00

Please note that everyone using, storing, sharing or transmitting information with or through ACA devices or systems, should have no expectation of privacy in any message, files, data, document, facsimile, telephone conversation, conversation, message, or any other kind of information or communications transmitted to, received from, printed from, or stored or recorded while utilizing any ACA systems, software, and data.