EDD Analyst

Job title: EDD Analyst

About Remote Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.

With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role.

We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.

If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!

What this job can offer you

This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global employment space as an Enhanced Due Diligence Analyst, joining our Operational Risk team.

You will play a key role in tackling fraud and driving continuous improvement. This role is responsible for performing enhanced due diligence on complex and higher-risk customers, both at on-boarding and on an on-going basis.

What you bring

• Several years of experience in operational risk, compliance, KYC/AML, enhanced due diligence, sanctions screening (financial services / fintech or similar)
• Experience performing EDD checks at onboarding and ongoing
• Comfortable with complexity; can summarise and present recommendations to decision-makers
• Proven ability to lead investigations / due diligence continuous improvement; familiarity with compliance tools; can manage vendor relationships
• Able to lead projects independently; proactive learner
• Relevant AML certification preferred (e.g. ACAMS)
• Fluent in English

Key Responsibilities

• Perform EDD on customers across high risk industries, including review of relevant export control and licensing regulations

• Improve due-diligence processes, documentation, and supporting systems (clarity + traceability)

• Assist with regulatory changes; participate in cross-functional projects

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders, business partners and second-line control functions

• Lead continuous improvement around tooling, SOPs and policies

• Contribute to specialist training and knowledge sharing

• Stakeholder engagement to raise the profile of Compliance

• Prepare data-driven internal management reports

• Practicals

• You'll report to: Director, Compliance & Regulatory Affairs

• Team: Compliance - Risk Operations

• Location: For this position we welcome everyone to apply, but we will prioritize applications from EMEA and AMER;

• Start date: As soon as possible

Benefits

Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:

• work from anywhere

• flexible paid time off

• flexible working hours (we are async)

• 16 weeks paid parental leave

• budget towards co-working spaces, learning and wellness (including gym memberships)

• mental health support services

• stock options

• home office budget & IT equipment

• How you’ll plan your day (and life)

• We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async.

• You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

• If that sounds like something you want, apply now!