Senior Compliance Associate, KYC

The role

You will manage customer risk through onboarding, ongoing due diligence, and enhanced due diligence reviews for individual and institutional customers. You will work independently to assess complex information and make risk-based decisions.

What you will do

• Perform KYC onboarding, ongoing due diligence, and enhanced due diligence reviews.
• Assess complex customer information and document risk-based decisions.
• Support junior analysts through guidance, knowledge sharing, and feedback.
• Contribute to KYC procedures and operational guidance.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Data, and business teams to resolve KYC challenges.
• Communicate with enterprise partners, customers, and Compliance teams.
• Identify control gaps and support remediation through root cause analysis.
• Support audits and regulatory examinations by preparing documentation.
• Identify and escalate KYC vendor issues.
• Recommend and drive improvements to KYC tools and workflows.

Required qualifications

• Strong working knowledge of US KYC requirements, including customer identification, beneficial ownership, CDD, EDD, customer risk rating, and ongoing due diligence.
• Experience independently performing KYC reviews and assessing complex cases.
• Ability to support junior analysts through practical guidance and feedback.
• Strong collaboration skills working across Compliance, Product, Engineering, Data, and business teams.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines.
• Experience contributing to procedures and operational guidance.
• Experience identifying control gaps and supporting remediation, audits, or regulatory examinations.
• Ability to use operational metrics to prioritize work.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• A hands-on approach and ability to work independently.
• Familiarity with AI and automation tools.

About the company

Paxos is rebuilding financial infrastructure to enable the instant movement of any asset. They build blockchain infrastructure that tokenizes, custodies, trades and settles assets for leading financial institutions.