Lead Jobs at Fortress Trust

Who is Fortress? 

Fortress Financial Technologies is a Web3 FinTech company building technology-driven (API) infrastructure for financial, regulatory, and e-payment needs. Fortress serves traditional and modern markets, including banking, neo-banking, blockchain technologies, cryptocurrency, ePayments, and tokenization. With our products and APIs, clients can build their platforms with everything they would need to modernize within our burgeoning digital economy. Fortress Trust, a wholly-owned subsidiary and Chartered Trust company provides embeddable financial infrastructure and is founded by a team of former banking commissioners/regulators, career bankers, and VC-backed entrepreneurs with several exits. 

What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties)

• Conduct compliance reviews and analysis in support of Fortress BSA/AML and other regulatory compliance policies and programs including investigating transaction monitoring program alerts, reviewing transaction and user activity, conducting research, and determining whether activity is suspicious and reportable to FinCEN in a Suspicious Activity Report   
• Respond to ad-hoc AML requests, escalate issues, incorporate feedback from manager review or quality control, assist with SAR preparation and filing, identify opportunities to improve processes and tools for greater efficiency.
• Remain current with industry standards and developments in the areas of BSA/AML, KYC and OFAC, and apply regulatory requirements (e.g., BSA, 4MLD, CDD Rule, Sanctions, USA PATRIOT Act, etc.) and internal policies and procedures to case investigations.
• Maintain detailed documentation to demonstrate compliance with regulations and internal policies and procedures. 

The Role

• The Compliance team at Fortress isn’t your traditional banking compliance team. We’re a new, dynamic team looking to grow our footprint in the Web3 payment space, and are looking for someone to grow with us and own our processes.
• As the Web3 Payment Compliance Lead, you’ll own the research, investigation and onboarding due diligence of accounts in the Fortress ecosystem. 
• A key part of this role will be the investigations work. This entails diving into irregular account actions, reviewing suspicious activity and resolving issues accordingly.

What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties)

• Conduct compliance reviews and analysis in support of Fortress BSA/AML and other regulatory compliance policies and programs including investigating transaction monitoring program alerts, reviewing transaction and user activity, conducting research, and determining whether activity is suspicious and reportable to FinCEN in a Suspicious Activity Report 
• Respond to ad-hoc AML requests, escalate issues, incorporate feedback from manager review or quality control, assist with SAR preparation and filing, identify opportunities to improve processes and tools for greater efficiency.
• Remain current with industry standards and developments in the areas of BSA/AML, KYC and OFAC, and apply regulatory requirements (e.g., BSA, 4MLD, CDD Rule, Sanctions, USA PATRIOT Act, etc.) and internal policies and procedures to case investigations.
• Maintain detailed documentation to demonstrate compliance with regulations and internal policies and procedures.

What we look for in you (ie. job requirements)

• 3-5+ years of investigation experience, preferably in a financial domain
• Blockchain or Crypto Compliance
• Experience Chainalysis KYT and Reactor certified
• Investigation background

Nice to haves:

• CAMS, CFE or CFCS certification