Sanctions, Operations Associate(CDMX)

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

At Stripe, our Mexico City office is a vibrant hub at the forefront of our mission to reshape the financial landscape for businesses worldwide. Our team prioritizes collaboration, innovation, and excellence. As a member of the Mexico City team, you'll be part of a mission-driven community dedicated to enhancing the global economy and increasing the GDP of the internet. We strive for excellence by creating with craft and beauty, while having fun and celebrating our successes together.

We cultivate a culture of collaboration, inclusivity and support where every team member’s voice matters. Our commitment shines through as we handle over a million support cases each year, empowering our users not just to solve problems but to achieve their goals.

What you’ll do

We are looking for someone who is passionate about fighting financial crimes and solving the puzzle of investigations, is naturally curious, and is comfortable operating in ambiguity and finding creative solutions. You will be responsible for conducting investigations and making account-level judgments and recommendations for regulatory reporting. You will be confident in looking through data, assessing various indicators, and making judgements on your findings.

The right candidate for this role will have experience in financial crimes compliance, preferably within the fintech or e-commerce space

Responsibilities

• Conduct a wide variety of analyses, including:
• Conducting screening (“watchlist” and “keyword”) reviews on merchants as part of Stripe’s sanctions program
• Analyzing and investigating accounts for exposure to both listed persons and high-risk/prohibited jurisdictions
• Understand complex regulatory and compliance requirements within the financial services space and complete analyses in accordance with these requirements
• Conduct in-depth open source research as part of Sanctions reviews, including in the open web, corporate registries, governmental databases, and social media platforms, to understand the use case and appropriately assess the relevant sanctions and financial crimes risk
• Analyze complex problem and exercising sound analytical judgment on investigation resolutions or decisions
• Perform assignments/tasks of high complexity and