AML Ops Analyst (LATAM Focus)
About Reap
Reap is a global financial technology company headquartered in Hong Kong with employees across multiple countries. We enable financial connectivity and access for businesses worldwide by combining traditional finance with stablecoins for efficient money movement.
Through our stablecoin-powered corporate cards, payments, and expense management tools, we streamline financial operations and help businesses scale. Our APIs enable businesses to integrate stablecoin-enabled finance into their own products and services, from issuing Visa cards to facilitating cross-border payments.
Backed by leading investors including Index Ventures and HashKey Capital, Reap is building the future of borderless, stablecoin-enabled finance.
About the team
At Reap, we're building the future of global finance - borderless, compliant, digital-first, and secure. Our Compliance Operations Team plays a vital role in safeguarding our business and our customers as we expand across the globe.
You'll report to the LATAM Compliance Operations Lead, and work closely with our LATAM Regulatory and Compliance Head, Global Compliance Managers and cross-functional teams across LATAM, the Head Quarters, and beyond. As part of the Legal, Risk & Compliance (LRC) function, led by our Head of LRC, you’ll help shape compliance operations in a fast-paced, high-growth fintech environment.
While Reap is headquartered in Hong Kong, and we have team members working remotely in LATAM.
This is a high-impact role ideal for someone with a strong command of end-to-end compliance operations, global AML regulatory awareness, and a proactive mindset capable of balancing strategy and execution in a fast-moving fintech environment.
What You'll Do
You will own and drive end-to-end compliance operations across client lifecycle stages and transaction flows. Key responsibilities include:
- Onboarding KYC/KYB Reviews: Conduct and sign off on due diligence for new and existing clients, including assessing complex corporate structures, international UBOs, and business models with higher-risk elements.
- Payment Reviews & Transaction Monitoring: Execute real-time and post-transaction investigations with a deep understanding of cross-border payment risks. Identify, assess, and escalate suspicious patterns, fraud indicators, or financial crime exposure.
- Periodic Reviews & Ongoing Monitoring:Lead ongoing due diligence checks and risk re-rating exercises, ensuring continued alignment with internal AML policies and evolving risk appetite.
- Alert Handling & Investigation: Triage and investigate alerts from internal systems (e.g., sanctions, transaction anomalies, adverse media). Document cases with clear rationale and elevate high-risk items in line with escalation protocols.
- Risk-Based Thinking & Data Analysis: Interpret and leverage data trends to identify potential policy gaps, process inefficiencies, or client behavioral red flags. Collaborate with analytics or product teams to refine rules and controls.
- SOP Development, QA Involvement & Project Ownership: Drive the drafting and enhancement of SOPs, control checklists, and workflows in alignment with global AML/CTF policies. Partner with the QA team to ensure consistency and execution quality. You will also help design and implement the maker-checker (2-eye/4-eye) process, and serve as checker for escalated or sensitive cases.
- Regulatory Readiness: Support internal reviews, audits, and regulatory inquiries by maintaining high-quality documentation and being audit-ready at all times.
Qualifications and Experience
5+ years of experience in AML compliance within fintech, payments, cards, crypto or financial services..
What We're Looking For
We’re seeking a high-performing compliance professional who can operate independently while contributing to the strategic buildout of our global compliance operations.
Experience
Minimum 4–5 years of experience in compliance operations or financial crime compliance, ideally with exposure to fintech, payments, EMIs/MSBs, cards, or regulated financial institutions
End-to-end exposure across KYC/KYB, transaction monitoring, STR/SAR processes, sanctions screening, and ongoing due diligence
Chain alysis or other blockchain monitoring tool experience is a plus
AML Knowledge
Strong familiarity with global AML/CTF standards (e.g., FATF, CNBV, UIF, BCB, and other relevant Regulations in Mexico and/or Brazil) and ability to translate them into operational processes within a risk-based compliance framework
Strategic Execution & Maker-Checker Design
Proven ability to balance execution with strategy, and experience building workflows and control structures
Experience implementing or managing 2-eye/4-eye review frameworks, including performing the checker role on risk-sensitive cases.
Experience in detecting and identifying patterns of unusual activity that lead to new types of unusual behavior.
Project Ownership
Strong ownership mindset, with the ability to lead and deliver small-to-medium compliance projects
Comfortable coordinating across teams such as Product, Growth, QA, Legal, and Finance Ops
Language Proficiency
Fluent in business English (spoken and written)
Ability to read and speak Portuguese, is a strong advantage (for candidates outside Brazil)
- Department
- Finance
- Locations
- Mexico
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
About Reap
Reap is a leading global payment technology provider that enables financial connectivity and access for businesses worldwide. By merging traditional finance with digital assets, bridging disparate economies, and connecting key financial players, we are transforming the financial landscape into a more interconnected and interoperable space for efficient money movement.
With stablecoin-enabled corporate cards, payout solutions, and expense management tools, we streamline financial operations and empower businesses to scale. Our APIs enable businesses to embed finance into their own products and services, from issuing Visa cards to facilitating cross-border payments.
Reap is supported by a strong network of investors, including Acorn Pacific Ventures, Arcadia Funds, HashKey Capital, Hustle Fund, Fresco Capital, Abacus Ventures, and Payment Asia.
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