Manager, AML Compliance
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Manager, AML Compliance

Flex is a growth-stage, NYC headquartered FinTech company that is creating the best rent payment experience. It's hard to believe that it's 2025 and paying rent on time is expensive, inflexible, and difficult. We're here to change that! Flex enables our users to pay rent throughout the month on a schedule that better fits their finances and budget. Our mission is to empower as many renters as possible with flexibility over their most significant recurring expense. After deliberately keeping a stealth profile as we built up unprecedented investor support and an enthusiastic user base, we are looking for motivated individuals to help us keep our mission growing. Will you be a part of the team?

About the Role

This role is pivotal in safeguarding Flex against financial crime. The AML Manager will lead governance, conduct risk assessments, provide QA oversight, manage regulatory responses, and ensure alignment with new product initiatives. Leveraging strong analytical skills, including SQL, this role will extract and analyze data to identify patterns, anomalies, and red flags. Advanced spreadsheet proficiency is essential for clear organization, interpretation, and presentation of findings. As needed, this position will also support in-depth customer due diligence (CDD) and transactional activity reviews. This role demands meticulous attention to detail, robust problem-solving abilities, and an unwavering commitment to AML regulatory compliance.

The ideal candidate will be deeply committed to upholding financial system integrity, excel in data-driven environments, and possess exceptional communication skills for effective escalation and reporting. This is a critical role where your insights will directly bolster our commitment to a compliant and secure business.

This is a hybrid position with on-site expectations of 3 days per week in our New York Headquarters. For candidates outside of the NY/NJ area, you may be eligible for our relocation assistance program.

What You'll Do

Lead the development, maintenance, and implementation of FinCrime policies and procedures, ensuring robust program governance.

Contribute to the strategic development and implementation of Flex's suspicious activity detection program, aligning it with risk assessments and new product initiatives.

Manage regulatory responses and drive alignment with new product initiatives, serving as a key cross-functional liaison.

Collaborate extensively with cross-functional teams (Risk, Product, and Operations) to address AML-related issues, ensuring regulatory alignment and seamless integration for new products.

Identify and drive opportunities to improve and automate monitoring processes, enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of financial crime detection. Take ownership of the development, maintenance, and optimization of AML/FinCrime detection and monitoring tools.

Leverage strong analytical skills, including SQL, to extract, manipulate, and analyze large datasets for risk assessments, QA oversight, and program enhancement.

Conduct manual account and transaction level reviews to identify unusual patterns and escalate suspicious activity.

Stay current with evolving regulatory requirements and industry best practices to proactively manage FinCrime risks and ensure Flex's continuous compliance posture.

Key Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business or related field.
• 2-4 years of experience in AML compliance.
• Strong analytical, writing and project management skills.
• Experience conducting investigations and drafting Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs)
• Experience using SQL queries and synthesizing large data sets.
• Advanced spreadsheet skills for data organization, analysis, and reporting.
• Experience with AML compliance tools or transaction monitoring systems.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills for escalating and reporting findings.
• Experience with financial services, fintech, or high-growth startups is highly desirable.
• CAMs certification is a plus.

The compensation range for this role will be commensurate with the candidate's experience and Flex's internal leveling guidelines and benchmarks. For working locations in NY/NJ/CA, the base salary pay range will be $137,000 - $156,000. For all other states, the base salary pay range will be $123,000 - $140,000.

Life at Flex:

We understand that it takes a diverse team of highly intelligent, curious, determined, empathetic, and self aware people to grow a successful company. Our HQ is located in New York City, but we have employees located throughout the US, Australia, Canada and South America. We are growing quickly, but deliberately, with a focus on building an inclusive culture. Our dynamic team has incredible perspectives to share, just as we know you do, and we take great pride in being an equal opportunity workplace.

We offer many employee benefits. For full time, U.S. based employees we offer:

• Competitive pay
• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision
• 401(k) + company equity
• Unlimited paid time off + 13 company paid holidays
• Parental leave
• Flex Cares Program: Non-profit company match + pet adoption coverage
• Free Flex subscription

For full time non-US employees, we offer:

• Competitive Pay
• Company Equity
• Unlimited PTO