Group sanctions and compliance specialist

📋 Description

• • As a Group Sanctions and Compliance Specialist at Remote Referral Board Inc., you will play a critical role in ensuring the company’s global operations adhere to evolving sanctions, AML, and CFT regulations, directly supporting Remote’s mission to enable compliant international hiring and payroll.
• • Your day-to-day responsibilities include monitoring regulatory changes, advising on risk mitigation strategies, acting as a second-line escalation point for onboarding and transaction monitoring teams, drafting and maintaining compliance policies (including CDD, EDD, screening, transaction monitoring, and SARs), coordinating audits with third-party advisors, and overseeing the control environment to ensure ongoing compliance with internal policies and external regulations.
• • You will join Remote’s Risk Operations – Regulatory Compliance team, part of a globally distributed, async-first workforce spanning six continents, where innovation, automation, and AI are embedded into every role, and where your expertise will help shape best-in-class compliance infrastructure for a fast-growing HR technology platform.
• • In this role, you will deepen your expertise in global financial crime compliance, gain influence over enterprise-wide risk frameworks, develop leadership in policy design and audit coordination, and contribute to Remote’s culture of innovation by integrating automation and AI into compliance processes — positioning you for growth into senior compliance, risk, or regulatory leadership roles.