Anti-Money Laundering Specialist, Payments Compliance

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Legal, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in regulatory compliance with a specialisation in KYC/AML monitoring.
  
• Experience in KYC onboarding checks and due diligence, AML Transaction Monitoring and regulatory reporting requirements including filing of STR.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in regulatory guidelines around KYC, AML and CFT, PMLA Rules, etc.
  
• Experience in regulatory reporting such as STR filing.
  
• Experience working with highly regulated sectors such as the payments industry.
  
• Ability to navigate through ambiguity in a fluid, and dynamic environment.
• Excellent attention to detail, written and verbal communication, time management, and investigative skills.

About the job

The Google Payments Compliance team makes sure that Google's business is always operating in line with current financial regulations. This team balances Google's compliance requirements with the dynamic needs of our users and the values of our company. In this role, you will get to be on the front-line of our regulatory needs. This includes development and enhancement of policies, reporting and licensing needs, broad oversight, and working cross-functionally with teams internally and externally. Additionally, you will identify pain points and gaps in existing policy frameworks and find good solutions. You will play a key role in ensuring teams across Payments understand the criticality of being compliant.

The name Google came from "googol," a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. And nobody at Google loves big numbers like the Finance team when providing in depth analysis on all manner of strategic decisions across Google products. From developing forward-thinking analysis to generating management reports to scaling our automated financial processes, the Finance organization is an important partner and advisor to the business.

Responsibilities

• Assist with maintaining oversight of Payments Compliance legal and contractual obligations in India. Assist with the management of corporate governance responsibilities for regulated payments entities.
  
• Ensure policies and procedures are effective and reflective of current compliance obligations Oversight of the Merchant onboarding and Transaction monitoring program in India and fulfilling reporting obligations for it.
  
• Lead Transaction monitoring escalation reviews and Suspicious Transactions Reporting (STR) filing. Monitor the ongoing effectiveness of controls and escalate where necessary.
  
• Be an agent of change by advocating controls initiatives with cross-functional partners such as Engineering, Legal, Operations, Finance, and Product Management. Monitor changes in regulations and industry best practices.