Senior Analyst, Payment Compliance

The Payments (Payments Risk and Compliance Team) team’s mission is to keep the online payment ecosystem safe and optimized to enable anyone, anywhere to pay and be paid with confidence, create a world-class compliance organization and have a data driven approach to building an innovation friendly, scalable compliance program. Our goal is to ensure that Airbnb Payments can grow in a safe fashion, with risks appropriately measured and mitigated.

Sr. Analyst supports Airbnb’s payments compliance activities. This position is responsible for managing high volumes of alerts and/or cases generated by multiple queues to satisfy processes required by AML, Economic Sanctions Enforcement and other compliance programs. This role ensures that day-to-day compliance activities relating to these programs are maintained to a high standard.

• Review and investigate alerts or cases escalated from various sources to provide supporting documentation and narratives to aid with determining if activities are unusual or out of character. 
• Manage large volumes of incoming cases and execute decisions under pressure of tight deadlines and regulatory time frames for TMIR. 
• Leverage open and closed source systems to decide potential matches in the relating queues. 
• Compile appropriate case notes and other documentation to support review, completed steps, recommended determinations, etc.
• Gather relevant and applicable on and off-platform data and objective information to support a subjective determination to support a case through its lifecycle. 
• Prepare detailed reporting to support independent decisions & justification for escalations and de-escalations including extensive supporting documentation and comprehensive narratives. 
• Assist in the assessment of potential risks, patterns and trends based on case review and investigations completed. 
• Assist and support leadership with procedure and workflow changes that may impact multiple teams and/or regions with the support of your manager. 
• Identify accurately and escalate compliance risks and opportunities to the Compliance Management. 

• Bachelor’s Degree or Technical Equivalent. 
• 3-5 years compliance operations experience in payments, banking, or e-commerce with 2+ years working in Sanctions and PEP screening/decisioning. 
• Fundamental knowledge of counter terrorist financing, anti-money laundering and anti-fraud, and anti-bribery and corruption typologies related to the payments and e-commerce space. 
• Strong systems thinker. 
• Superior communication skills both written and verbal. 
• Strong ability to think clearly and rationally in order to understand logical connections between various data points. 
• Strong problem solving skills with an emphasis in adaptability and resilience.
•  Ability to clearly articulate complex case patterns. 
• Ability to gather objective information and make a subjective determination and be able to defend that determination both verbally and textually. 
• Ability to work closely and build trust with your team and other teams.
• Exceptional organisation and process management ability. 
• High level of personal integrity, interest in payments as evidenced by related work experience, proven dedication to excellence, leadership qualities and a flexible, creative, innovative approach to problem solving. 
• Ability and desire to work in a fast-paced environment. 
• Familiarity with SQL, excel and data querying skills is a huge preference.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.