# Compliance, Financial Crimes

**Company:** [Kalshi](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/kalshi)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Legal
**Salary:** $150k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** AML, kyc, transaction monitoring, sar, ofac, sanctions screening, customer risk assessment, fraud, trade surveillance, market surveillance, financial crime compliance, cams
**Posted:** 2026-08-11

> This role will build and operate Kalshi’s financial crime compliance program, owning transaction monitoring, SAR investigations, KYC remediation, sanctions rescreening, and audit support. The ideal candidate has 7–10 years of hands-on AML experience in a regulated financial or fintech environment.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Build and operate Kalshi’s transaction monitoring program, including alerting frameworks, investigation workflows, escalation standards, policies, procedures, and documentation.
- Review and disposition transaction monitoring alerts, investigate potentially suspicious activity, and coordinate the preparation and filing of SARs where applicable.
- Conduct KYC reviews and remediation, including investigating customer risk indicators and resolving escalated onboarding or account issues.
- Own ongoing OFAC and sanctions rescreening processes and maintain regulator-ready documentation and audit trails.
- Perform retrospective transaction reviews and work through existing monitoring and KYC backlogs.
- Support AML audits, regulatory examinations, and diligence requests from banking, payments, FCM, and strategic partners.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Payments, Compliance, and Operations to improve automation and controls across AML, KYC, fraud, sanctions, and transaction-monitoring workflows.
- Identify emerging financial-crime risks associated with new products, payment methods, customer types, and international expansion, and translate them into practical controls.
- Develop metrics and reporting covering alert volumes, investigation outcomes, turnaround times, KYC remediation, and other program-effectiveness indicators.
- Support broader market-surveillance and DCM compliance initiatives where financial crime and trading activity intersect.

## Requirements

- 7–10 years of relevant experience across AML, KYC, fraud, transaction monitoring, financial-crimes compliance, or related functions.
- Significant hands-on experience investigating and dispositioning transaction-monitoring alerts and identifying potentially suspicious activity.
- Strong familiarity with SAR investigation, drafting, escalation, and filing requirements.
- Experience designing or materially improving AML, KYC, fraud, or transaction-monitoring policies, procedures, controls, and workflows.
- Experience in a regulated fintech, broker-dealer, financial institution, crypto or digital-asset company, payments business, exchange, or similarly complex financial environment.
- Strong working knowledge of KYC/CDD, OFAC and sanctions screening, customer-risk assessment, and financial-crime typologies.
- Ability to operate effectively in a high-volume environment without sacrificing investigative rigor or attention to detail.
- Sound judgment when escalating activity, with the ability to distinguish meaningful risk from noise.
- Willingness to move between program design and hands-on execution.
- Strong organization and ability to create structure in an evolving regulatory environment.

## Nice to Have

- Experience with trade surveillance or market surveillance.
- CAMS or another relevant financial-crime compliance certification.

## Compensation and Benefits

- **Salary:** $150,000–$250,000 annually, plus equity and benefits.

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