Financial Crimes Analyst

Few people get to build a bank from scratch. Even fewer get to build one at a moment when banking itself is being reinvented.

The Dollar is the best product in the history of the world - there is infinite global demand. But international fintechs and banks are left with two unsatisfying options to choose from: Either build on legacy correspondent banks that are slow and unreliable, or interface with middleware providers that neither move nor hold the dollars directly, but instead rely on underlying legacy banks themselves. At Augustus, we collapse the stack by combining two things: A real, national bank charter (in organization), and Marble, our proprietary core banking system, built around intelligence, made of code.

We are a group of ex-founders, founding employees of unicorns, and people who dropped out of university because they believe this is an industry and career defining opportunity. We are backed with more than $200M from Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Hummingbird, QED, Creandum, and the founders of Nubank, Ramp, Deel, Circle, Fluidstack, Fuse, and Etched.

We are regulated in Europe and live with Euro and Stablecoin clearing today. Now, we are building the US team from the ground up, while continuing to grow rapidly in Europe.

The Role

As a Financial Crimes Analyst at Augustus, you own transaction monitoring end to end, from alert to final disposition. You clear alerts, run case investigations and draft SARs. You find new typologies and turn them into rules.

We’re building an AI native bank, which is designed to run mostly autonomously. Legacy banks scale transaction monitoring with people. We scale it with agents, supporting human decisions. You improve the prompts of our alert review agents, tune monitoring rules to cut false positives, and work with Engineering and Product to automate investigations within our regulatory bounds. Your judgment sets the standard the agents follow. The goal is to make routine alerts disappear so your time goes to the cases that matter.

 

Your First Six Months

• Months 1-2: Work the queue yourself. Clear transaction monitoring alerts end to end: review, disposition and escalation. Learn the Bank’s TM program and rule logic well enough to see where rules misfire and where the review agents get it wrong.

• Months 3-4: Own case investigations. Your escalations reach the SAR decision complete and documented, with no rework needed. You recommend rule changes based on false-positive analysis, and you rewrite agent prompts based on what you see in the queue.

• Months 5-6: Agents handle routine alert disposition. You take complex investigations, SAR drafting and new typologies. You write the case investigation desktop guidance and work with Engineering and Product on the next workflows to automate, within regulatory bounds.

 

Who Will Thrive At Augustus

We believe that throwing smart people with high agency at big problems produces the best outcomes. We’re building a modern correspondent bank, and we win by having a better team. The people who succeed here share the following traits:

• American Dream: You’d rather shoot for gold than settle for mediocrity. You pick the harder goal and stay optimistic when the odds are against you. If it feels easy, we aimed too low.

• Live Player: You don’t need permission. You rebuild what’s broken without being asked, challenge how things are done, and move before the perfect moment.

• Ever to Excel: You can’t accept good enough and you take your work personally. When it matters, you do what it takes and keep raising the bar for yourself and your team.

• Genuine: You play for the company, not your title or turf. Low ego, low drama, no politics. You say it straight, also upwards and always assume good intent.

 

This role is for you if:

• You reason from first principles. When false positives pile up, you ask which rule needs fixing, not how many analysts to hire.

• You hunt typologies. When you see a pattern that should have its own rule, you write the requirements and push it into production.

• You work hard. When alert volume spikes or an investigation gets complex, you stay on it until it’s done right.

• You challenge how things are done. If a process is slow, redundant or wrong, you say so, also upwards, and you bring the fix.

• You’re diligent. Your case files are complete, your reasoning is documented, and they hold up when someone checks them.

This is not for you if:

• You want a fixed checklist and a stable process. Ours changes every time the agents get better.

• You see automation as a threat to your job. Here it is the job.

• You treat alert clearing as box-ticking. An examiner may read every disposition you write.

• You need someone else to tell you a case isn’t good enough.

 

Hard Requirements

• 2 - 6 years experience. Preferably at a top-tier consultancy (McKinsey, BCG, Bain), a high-bar startup, or as Chief of Staff to a founder.

• You’ve been promoted or given a bigger scope faster than the standard cycle.

• You’ve built automations, tools, or workflows that people use today (SQL, scripting, AI tools), not just recommendations.

• Degree from a top-tier university.

• Based in New York City and working onsite.

 

Pay transparency

Compensation packages at Augustus include base salary, equity, and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidate's experience, expertise and geographic location. The annual US base salary range for this role is $100,000-$150,000 + equity.

What We Offer

• Career Growth: You will be given more responsibility and pushed to grow faster than ever before.

• Network: Your peers are brilliant, highly motivated people. These people will be foundational in your future opportunities.

• Real Participation: Employees are shareholders. You will think and act like an owner.

• Perks & Benefits: Relocation support, visa support, the latest Apple gear (MacBook + AirPods), lunch benefit, gym benefit, a beautiful office in the heart of the city, 4x on-/offsites per year, and an annual development budget.

Additional to the global benefits above, we offer localized benefits such as comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance and a 401(k) retirement plan for our US team.

Augustus is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people from all backgrounds can thrive and where different viewpoints and experiences are valued and respected. Augustus will consider all applications for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, religious beliefs, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, disability, age, parental or veteran status.