Financial Crimes Compliance Strategist

New York, NY (HQ) · San Francisco · Remote (US) · Miami, FL · Full-time · Posted Sep 21, 2026

At a glance

Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $200B in annualized spend flows in and out of 70,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books.
The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving.
We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome.
The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year – far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same.
If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it.

The Financial Crimes Compliance Strategist will execute Ramp’s AML and sanctions compliance program by conducting investigations and driving process improvements.
This role focuses on escalated transaction-monitoring alerts, preparing SARs and UARs, and partnering with cross-functional teams to develop AI-enabled compliance capabilities.

Lead comprehensive investigations of escalated transaction-monitoring alerts and internal referrals.
Recommend account actions or restrictions based on financial crimes risk.
Present findings and recommendations to the Account Review Board.
Draft and file SARs and prepare applicable partner reporting.
Conduct secondary and peer reviews of investigations and filings.
Identify and drive practical improvements to investigation workflows, procedures, quality standards, tooling, and training.
Partner with Compliance, Risk, PEDD, and Operations to build scalable workflows, automation, and AI-enabled capabilities.
Flex into other Financial Crimes Compliance work including sanctions, PEPs, customer due diligence, and enhanced due diligence reviews.

Minimum 5 years of experience in BSA/AML advisory or operations teams.
At least 2 years of experience in BSA/AML investigations.
Demonstrated experience drafting and filing SARs and making recommendations to leadership on account actions.
At least 1 year of experience conducting secondary or peer reviews of financial-crimes investigations.
Deep knowledge of money-laundering and terrorist-financing typologies.
Demonstrated experience improving financial-crimes processes, procedures, controls, tooling, training, or quality standards.
AI fluency, including the ability to design repeatable, validated multi-step AI-assisted workflows.
Prior Fintech experience.

Role is available in New York, NY (HQ), San Francisco, Miami, FL, or Remote (US).