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BSA OPERATIONS MANAGER

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of hands-on BSA/AML/Sanctions experience at a bank, trust company, or regulated fintech
  • Strong command of the Bank Secrecy Act, FinCEN regulations, OFAC sanctions requirements
  • Experience operating or tuning transaction monitoring and sanctions screening systems
  • Comfort in ambiguous, build-from-scratch environments

Responsibilities

  • Own client onboarding: run know-your-business onboarding and due diligence for new clients
  • Run ongoing monitoring: manage risk-based CDD refresh and transaction monitoring
  • Investigate suspicious activity and own regulatory reporting and record-keeping
  • Supervise and grow the BSA/AML analyst team

Key facts

Other skills

  • Training And Development
  • Team Management

About the company

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Catena

Catena is a banking and governance platform for AI agents. We give agents programmable financial infrastructure. For the humans and businesses who deploy them, we provide a control plane to ensure that when agents use money, they do it safely.

Company details

Company size11 - 50

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Job description

ABOUT THE ROLE

The BSA Operations Manager runs the day-to-day engine of CTB’s BSA/AML and Sanctions program. Reporting to the Chief Compliance Officer / BSA Officer, the Manager owns customer onboarding, transaction monitoring, screening, investigations, and regulatory reporting, and grows the analyst team as the Trust Bank scales. This is a chance to build a financial-crimes function from the ground up at the intersection of AI, stablecoins, and regulated banking.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

  • Own client onboarding: run know-your-business onboarding and due diligence for new clients.

  • Run ongoing monitoring: manage risk-based CDD refresh and transaction monitoring across fiat and digital assets.

  • Operate sanctions and risk screening within the Trust Bank’s compliance gate, along with the resulting reporting.

  • Investigate suspicious activity and own regulatory reporting and record-keeping, plus management and Board reporting for the areas you own.

  • Maintain funds-transfer and Travel Rule compliance across all transaction types.

  • Design and deliver BSA/AML and Sanctions training to the team, and support the BSA Officer in developing training for Management and the Board.

  • Supervise and grow the BSA/AML analyst team and support independent testing and examinations.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING

  • 7+ years of hands-on BSA/AML/Sanctions experience at a bank, trust company, or regulated fintech, with direct ownership of CIP/CDD/EDD, transaction monitoring, OFAC screening, and SAR investigation and filing.

  • Strong command of the Bank Secrecy Act, FinCEN regulations, OFAC sanctions requirements, and funds-transfer and Travel Rule recordkeeping.

  • Experience operating or tuning transaction monitoring and sanctions screening systems and managing alert and case workflows.

  • Clear writing, examination-ready documentation, and sharp investigative judgment.

  • Comfort in ambiguous, build-from-scratch environments, with a desire to help define the process, not just run it.

NICE TO HAVE

  • AML and Sanctions experience in a digital-asset context, including familiarity with leading blockchain analytics tools (e.g., Chainalysis, TRM Labs, Elliptic).

  • Experience at a national trust bank or other OCC-regulated institution, or through a de novo charter and early examinations.

  • Experience related to implementing systems that leverage AI and ML to increase quality and productivity within the function.

  • CAMS, CFCS, or comparable certification.

  • Experience supervising or building a team.

JOIN US

If you're passionate about pushing the boundaries of what AI agents can do in financial services and want to be part of building the trusted financial infrastructure for the agentic economy, we want to hear from you. You'll have the opportunity to work on challenging problems that have never been solved before, with a team that's defining an entirely new category of financial services.

This is more than a job; it's a chance to be part of the startup team that makes the AI economy possible. Your work will directly enable millions of AI agents to participate safely in commerce, unlocking trillions in economic value and increasing prosperity around the world.

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