[Hiring] Senior Manager - BSA/AML & Sanctions Modeling and Analytics @Mercury

Role Description

As the Sr Manager, Financial Crimes Modeling and Analytics, you’ll own and drive enhancement of our financial crime (anti-money laundering and sanctions) detection models. This role will own transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, and customer risk scoring models—ensuring they are data-driven, well-governed, and defensible.

• Build the modeling and analytics function and take ownership of model documentation, tuning, and partner with engineering for model development.
• Develop and execute the modeling and analytics roadmap supporting the company’s Financial Crimes Compliance program.
• Partner with senior Compliance, Product, and Data leaders to translate regulatory requirements into effective analytical frameworks.
• Champion analytical excellence, model governance, and innovation in AML and Sanctions detection approaches.
• Design, implement, and maintain statistical and machine learning models for transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, customer risk scoring, and alert optimization.
• Ensure models and rules have appropriate documentation in line with Mercury’s Model Risk Management framework, draft new documentation for existing models as needed.
• Evaluate and tune existing detection models and rules to reduce false positives while maintaining regulatory rigor.
• Develop data-driven methods to identify new typologies, emerging risks, and evolving financial crime trends.
• Partner with Model Risk Management to support validation and performance monitoring of models to ensure compliance with internal and regulatory standards.

Qualifications

• 5-8 Years of experience leading modelling and analytics functions for financial crimes compliance.
• Ability to build and scale the function, including hiring, establishing norms, and delivering excellence along the roadmap.
• Establish regular reporting for modelling and analytics.
• Identify areas of opportunity to increase efficiency and precision of the transaction monitoring and sanctions screening program.
• Highlight and escalate deficiencies in the program and develop a solutions-oriented approach for executive leadership.
• Have the technical writing skills to translate code into plain English and vice versa.

Benefits

• Base salary, equity (stock options), and benefits.
• Highly competitive salary and equity ranges within the SaaS and fintech industry.
• New hire offers based on experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity.
• Target new hire base salary ranges for this role:
• US employees in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area: $239,000 - 298,800
• US employees outside of the New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area: $215,100 - 268,900

Company Description

Mercury is building a complete finance stack for startups. We work hard to create the easiest and safest banking experience possible to simplify entrepreneurs' and business owners’ financial lives. Mercury, while not a bank itself, is an important part of the U.S. financial ecosystem, providing banking services to ambitious entrepreneurs.