# Compliance Lead, Financial Services and Bank Partnerships | Housing

**Company:** [EliseAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/eliseai)
**Location:** New York, NY, Boston, MA, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Legal
**Salary:** $140k – $190k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Aml/Bsa, Kyc/Kyb, Ofac Sanctions, Transaction Monitoring, Fraud Detection, Sanctions Screening, Enhanced Due Diligence, Fincen Regulations, Bank Secrecy Act, Compliance Technology, Sardine, Uar/Sar Processes
**Posted:** 2026-09-02

> Leads AML/BSA, KYC/KYB, fraud, transaction monitoring, and sanctions compliance programs while managing banking-partner relationships and regulatory readiness. Requires 5+ years of regulated-financial-services compliance experience and the ability to operationalize requirements across Legal, Product, Engineering, and Operations.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own and continuously improve fraud monitoring, KYC/KYB, AML/BSA, and OFAC/sanctions compliance programs, including policies, procedures, risk assessments, and governance materials.
- Serve as the primary compliance contact for banking, fintech, and financial institution partners; oversee meetings, reporting cycles, obligations, open items, and escalations.
- Lead KYC/KYB processes, oversee transaction monitoring, review escalated alerts and investigations, and prepare UARs and other required reports.
- Partner with Legal, Product, and Engineering to translate regulatory requirements into workflows, controls, system rules, audit trails, and monitoring capabilities.
- Provide compliance guidance for new products and market initiatives, identifying risks and supporting responsible launches.
- Coordinate compliance testing, audits, examinations, issue remediation, and responses to partner or regulator requests.
- Monitor state and federal regulatory developments and translate them into prioritized business actions.
- Build practical, embedded compliance processes and accountability across the organization.
- Own the BSA/AML training program, including content creation, completion tracking, and third-party reporting.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of AML/BSA compliance experience at a fintech, bank, payment processor, money services business, or comparable regulated financial institution.
- Experience managing relationships with banking partners, sponsor banks, or other financial institutions.
- Experience building an AML/BSA compliance program from 0 to 1.
- Working knowledge of transaction monitoring, customer identification and due diligence, enhanced due diligence, sanctions screening, investigations, and UAR/SAR processes.
- Strong understanding of FinCEN regulations, the Bank Secrecy Act, and OFAC sanctions requirements.
- Experience with compliance technology and operational tooling.
- Clear written communication, sound judgment, and ability to translate complex compliance requirements for cross-functional stakeholders.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage concurrent deadlines and stakeholders.
- Willingness to work in person at the office 4–5 days per week.

## Nice-to-haves
- Familiarity with Sardine or similar compliance systems.

## Compensation
- Salary range: $140,000–$190,000.
- Total rewards package includes base salary, equity, benefits, and perks.

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