Location: San Francisco, CA

Coinbase has built the world's leading compliant cryptocurrency platform serving over 30 million accounts in more than 100 countries. With multiple successful products, and our vocal advocacy for blockchain technology, we have played a major part in mainstream awareness and adoption of cryptocurrency. We are proud to offer an entire suite of products that are helping build the cryptoeconomy, and increase economic freedom around the world.

There are a few things we look for across all hires we make at Coinbase, regardless of role or team. First, we assess whether a candidate demonstrates our values: Clear Communication, Positive Energy, Efficient Execution, and Continuous Learning. Second, we look for signals that a candidate will thrive in a culture like ours, where we default to trust, embrace feedback, disrupt ourselves, and expect sustained high performance because we play as a championship team. Finally, we seek people with the desire and capacity to build and share expertise in the frontier technologies of crypto and blockchain, in whatever way is most relevant to their role.

Read more about our values and culture here.

The Compliance Analytics Associate  will work within the Compliance Tools team to develop, maintain, tune and enhance key compliance systems and tools. Compliance Tools include but not limited to Transaction Monitoring System (TMS), Global Sanctions Screening, PEP and Adverse Media Screening, KYC/Onboarding and Consumer Risk Rating.

The person should have excellent hands-on  data analytics, SQL, data visualization and analytic skills. In addition, the person should have working knowledge of BSA/AML compliance, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening and customer risk rating. 

Knowledge of cryptocurrencies will be a big plus but not a prerequisite.

What You'll Be Doing (i.e., Job Duties) 

• Assist in the development, testing and ongoing enhancements of Transaction Monitoring System.
• Partner with Compliance teams globally to develop, maintain, tune and enhance Compliance Tools.
• Develop, enhance and maintain metrics and dashboards measuring TMS performance
• Profile user and transaction data and identify TMS rule enhancements
• Build metrics and reports for internal Compliance stakeholders and external regulators
• Assist in ongoing development, and enhancements of the Compliance PGM Tool
• Run data analysis and assist Compliance team in scoping and documentation
• Gather system requirements from compliance end-users and business partners to improve workflow, meet regulatory requirements and launch new offerings (e.g. new currency launch, product changes and expansion in new jurisdictions).
• Perform testing of the compliance Tool changes, track bug fixes, resolve open deficiencies and document the results of testing and user acceptance.
• Test data ETL (extraction, transformation and load) from upstream production systems into the data repository, and from the data repository into the Compliance Tools.
• Assist in creating, tuning and optimizing transaction monitoring detection models in TMS, including above-the-line and below-the-line testing.
• Assist in screening configuration of Sanctions, PEP and Adverse Media screening systems and screening profiles as needed.
• Translate requirements into system functionalities and liaise with Data and Engineering teams to implement system changes.
• Maintain system documentation for future regulatory reviews.
• Produce Compliance system performance metrics dashboards, reports and extracts as required.

What We Look For In You (ie. Job Requirements)

• At least a bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related disciplines
• Minimum 2 years of relevant experience
• Compliance Tools experience, TMS, sanctions screening and/or customer risk rating
• Excellent analytics skills; solid working SQL and data analysis skills
• Knowledge of software development life cycle (SDLC): requirements development, system design, development, testing and production launch
• Understanding of BSA/AML compliance program, AML transaction monitoring and screening (Sanctions, PEP, Adverse Media) controls
• Ability to successfully collaborate in a cross-functional environment and under minimal supervision
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written