👋 About us

Caliza is building the infrastructure to power stable finance for everyone. Currency volatility and lack of access to financial products make saving and building wealth challenging in emerging markets. Our software allows companies around the world to open digital dollar accounts, enabling their customers to access the digital dollar economy.

Our mission is backed by top-tier VCs including Better Tomorrow Ventures, Abstract Ventures, Valor Capital, Quona Capital, QED Investors, and the Raba Partnership as well as the founders of Rappi, Flutterwave, Chipper Cash, Compound, and many more.

We are a global team with a global product and a global mission. Our team brings experience from Visa, Nubank, Mercado Livre, Upstart, Silicon Valley Bank, Intuit, and more.

🎭 About the Role

We’re looking for our first Compliance Analyst. You will report to the Head of Legal and work closely with our team to identify, analyze, and resolve compliance alerts associated with customer onboarding and transactions flagged for review in our priority markets. You will help maintain and update existing compliance models, and report results to senior management, partners, and clients. As Caliza’s operational compliance expert, you will be an essential member of our team enabling customer onboarding and ensuring customer safety.

🚀 Your impact at Caliza

You will:

• Review documentation for new customer accounts, evaluate high-risk accounts, and analyze new customer processes and policies.
• Monitor queues, observe customer transactions to identify fraudulent activity such as account take over, friendly fraud, theft, and other risks.
• Identify fraudulent transactions and stop them from further processing.
• Interact with partners and clients to validate information, resolve transactions, and to confirm or cancel authorizations.
• Determine existing anti-money laundering trends by analyzing accounts and transaction patterns.
• Identify system improvements to prevent fraudulent activities.
• Maintain analysis models to improve efficiency and effectiveness of company systems.

🎩 About you

• Bachelor’s degree with at least 2 years experience in the financial services industry.
• Experience working in a compliance function with knowledge of BSA/KYC, AML, transaction monitoring and fraud rules.
• Comfort working cross-functionally on multiple tasks to deliver on key organizational objectives.
• Excellent communicator who can effectively deliver a message to internal and external stakeholders, including everyone from start ups, to major financial institutions, to local regulatory agencies.