Square Compliance Quality Control Analyst

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Job Description
The mission of the Square Compliance Quality Control (QC) team at Square is to provide timely and encouraging feedback on decision-making; constructive observations; valuable insight into trends, processes, and procedures, while highlighting opportunities for efficiency. This is achieved by sampling decisions made by the Compliance Team. We are looking for a Compliance Quality Control Analyst to help QC review decisions made by our global Compliance operations teams. You will specifically focus on QC reviews of Japan and Australia Compliance cases. You will provide training, identify gaps, and recommend enhancements to global Compliance procedures and report to the Square Compliance Quality Control Lead.
This position is remote from Australia or Japan. Please note that this role requires non-traditional work hours across international time zones.
Qualifications
You Will:

• Sample a wide range of decisions arising from compliance-related alerts
• Recognize patterns by evaluating data to make constructive observations to highlight gaps, develop procedures, and conduct training to support consistency.
• Provide ongoing quality coaching.
• Collaborate with leads to recommend enhancements to policy and procedures.
• Respond to QC escalations, disputes and inquiries.
• Have, or be able to quickly develop, knowledge of Compliance team workstreams to assess decisions against procedures.
• Understand regulatory landscape and compliance requirements; with emphasis on applicable AML requirements including customer identification procedure, due diligence best practice, sanction screening requirements, and anti-money laundering protocols

Qualifications
You Have:

• Native-level proficiency in written and spoken Japanese
• 2+ years experience in the AML/Compliance space in either Japan or Australia
• 2+ years experience in transaction monitoring, suspicious matter reporting, KYC and and/or watchlist screening
• Experience delivering training
• Experience delivering feedback to individuals.
• A desire to work with individuals and teams across multiple countries and time zones

Even Better:

• 1+ year of Compliance QC/QA experience
• Experience working in a financial institution or related FinTech payments space
• Familiarity with using and writing SQL queries
• Experience working for a global compliance team
• Knowledge of Looker and experience creating complex dashboards
• Experience manipulating and presenting trends to management using large data-sets

Qualifications
You Will:

• Sample a wide range of decisions arising from compliance-related alerts
• Recognize patterns by evaluating data to make constructive observations to highlight gaps, develop procedures, and conduct training to support consistency.
• Provide ongoing quality coaching.
• Collaborate with leads to recommend enhancements to policy and procedures.
• Respond to QC escalations, disputes and inquiries.
• Have, or be able to quickly develop, knowledge of Compliance team workstreams to assess decisions against procedures.
• Understand regulatory landscape and compliance requirements; with emphasis on applicable AML requirements including customer identification procedure, due diligence best practice, sanction screening requirements, and anti-money laundering protocols

Qualifications
You Have:

• Native-level proficiency in written and spoken Japanese
• 2+ years experience in the AML/Compliance space in either Japan or Australia
• 2+ years experience in transaction monitoring, suspicious matter reporting, KYC and and/or watchlist screening
• Experience delivering training
• Experience delivering feedback to individuals.
• A desire to work with individuals and teams across multiple countries and time zones

Even Better:

• 1+ year of Compliance QC/QA experience
• Experience working in a financial institution or related FinTech payments space
• Familiarity with using and writing SQL queries
• Experience working for a global compliance team
• Knowledge of Looker and experience creating complex dashboards
• Experience manipulating and presenting trends to management using large data-sets