Interactive Brokers

Analyst - Quality Assurance Financial Crime Compliance

Interactive Brokers$75K — $110K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years' experience in Financial Crime Compliance areas (e.g., Sanctions, Trade Surveillance, Fraud)
  • Ability to be cross-trained across multiple Financial Crime Compliance processes
  • Experience with global jurisdiction and legal entities preferred
  • High fluency with technology applied to business and regulatory challenges
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills
  • ACAMS, CFE, CFCS, or other relevant certifications preferred

Responsibilities

  • Conduct risk-based quality assurance reviews across Financial Crime Compliance functions
  • Review global account activity and assess adherence to policies and regulations
  • Perform QA testing across global entities to ensure standard consistency
  • Support cross-functional QA model and adapt to changing risk priorities
  • Advise management by analyzing and summarizing QA results and emerging risk trends
  • Identify control gaps and opportunities for process improvements
  • Review trading data for suspicious activities and fraud patterns

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and annual performance-based bonus
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company match
  • Comprehensive health benefits including paid medical premiums
  • Wellness programs and Employee Assistance Program for health coaching
  • Daily lunch allowance and stocked kitchen with healthy options
  • Corporate events for team building and volunteering
  • Education reimbursement opportunities and professional development
Full Job Description
This is Hybrid role (4 days in office /1 day remote)

Interactive Brokers is looking to hire a full-time Analyst - Quality Assurance (QA) Financial Crime Compliance at the Chicago office. This position has excellent growth potential for highly motivated and exceptional performers. Analysts will report to a Quality Assurance Compliance Manager in our Chicago office and will assist with ensuring the firm complies with the Bank Secrecy Act, the USA PATRIOT Act, anti-terrorist financing, sanctions program, AML requirements, and securities laws and other applicable global regulatory frameworks.

This role is global in scope and requires the ability to be cross-trained across multiple Financial Crime Compliance processes and across multiple legal entities supporting a risk-based, enterprise-wide Quality Assurance program.

Responsibilities:
  • Conduct risk -based quality assurance reviews across multiple Financial Crime Compliance Functions, including but not limited to:
    • Trade Surveillance
    • Financial Investigative Unit (AML)
    • Sanctions
    • Fraud
    • Enhance Due Diligence
    • Regulatory Correspondence
  • Review account activity globally, including trading behavior, deposits and withdrawals, sanctions exposure, fraud indicators, enhance due diligence on high-risk clients and public domain activity to assess adherence to internal policies, procedures and regulatory obligations.
  • Perform QA testing across multiple global entities and jurisdictions, ensuring consistent application of standards while account for local regulatory requirements.
  • Support a cross-functional, cross-trained QA model, rotating across Financial Crime Compliance processes and adapting to evolving risk priorities.
  • Advise management by collecting, analyzing and summarizing QA results, data, and emerging risk trends across regions and compliance disciplines.
  • Perform quality assurance reviews of regulatory filings, investigations, alerts and escalations.
  • Identify thematic issues, control gaps, and opportunities for process optimizations and continuous improvement across global Financial Crime Compliance programs.
  • Review trading and transactional data for suspicious activity. Market abuse, fraud typologies and unusual patterns.
  • Partner with stakeholders across Compliance, Risk, Operations and Technology to support remediation efforts and strengthen global control frameworks.


The ideal candidate will have experience working within a financial institution, broker dealer (BD), Futures Commission Merchant (FCM), exchange, regulator, or other regulated financial services organization with exposure to Financial Crime Compliance, internal audit, legal, accounting, or other control functions.

Candidates must demonstrate the ability and willingness to be cross trained across multiple Financial Crime Compliance disciplines and to support multiple global legal entities. Absent direct industry experience, candidates with strong bachelor level academic, credential in law, accounting, finance, data analytics or related fields and strong analytical and quantitative skill will also be considered.

Successful candidates are adaptable, detail-oriented, collaborative, time management skills and comfortable operating in a fast-paced globally environment to succeed in Interactive Brokers' work environment.

Qualifications & Skills:

2+ years' work experience in one or more Financial Crime Compliance areas (e.g., Sanctions, Trade Surveillance, Fraud, Regulatory Correspondence, Enhance Due Diligence, AML, FIU or Transaction Monitoring )
  • Demonstrate ability and willingness to be cross trained across multiple Financial Crime Compliance processes
  • Experience supporting or reviewing activity across multiple global jurisdiction and legal entities preferred
  • High comfort and fluency with computers and technology and understanding of how technology is applied to business and regulatory problems.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Detail-oriented with outstanding organizational and project management skills
  • Ability to work both independently as well as in a small-team environment and to multi-task with minimal supervision
  • ACAMS, CFE, CFCS, Series 7, or other FINRA licenses or certifications a plus
  • Capital Markets

To be successful in this position, you will have the following:
  • Self-motivated and able to handle tasks with minimal supervision.
  • Superb analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Excellent collaboration and communication (Verbal and written) skills.
  • Outstanding organizational and time management skills.

Company Benefits & Perks

  • Competitive salary, annual performance-based bonus and stock grant
  • Retirement plan 401(k) with competitive company match
  • Excellent health and wellness benefits, including medical, dental, and vision benefits. Company paid medical healthcare premium.
  • Wellness screenings and assessments, health coaches and counseling services through an Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Daily company lunch allowance provided and a fully stocked kitchen with healthy options for breakfast and snack
  • Corporate events including team outings, dinners, volunteer activities and company sports teams
  • Education reimbursement and learning opportunities


This role's anticipated base salary range is $75,000 to $110,000 annually based on skill's and experience. The offered salary is just part of the total compensation package. In addition to a competitive salary, the company offers both a discretionary cash bonus and stock award as well as a wide range of benefits, including health care, tuition reimbursement and much more.

About Interactive Brokers

Interactive Brokers is a leading online brokerage firm. They offer a wide range of services to clients, including trading in stocks, options, futures, currencies, and bonds. Interactive Brokers is known for their low fees and advanced trading platform. They have a team of experienced professionals who are committed to providing the best service to their clients. Interactive Brokers is a publicly traded company and is listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
Learn more about Interactive Brokers
Size
2,683 employees
Market Cap
$30 billion
Industry
Net Income
$195 million
5 Year Trend
+14.8%
Revenue
$2.4 billion
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