Due Diligence Analyst

Join Alpaca as a Due Diligence Analyst to support onboarding of new partners, ensuring compliance with risk and AML standards. Ideal for candidates with 2-3 years of experience in risk management within fintech or financial services. Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Our recent Series D funding round brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision. Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totaling over 9 million brokerage accounts. Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.

Support due diligence reviews for new and existing partners, including fintech companies, financial institutions, vendors, and other third-party service providers.

• •Communicate regularly with prospective and onboarding partners globally to help them understand requirements, timelines, and outstanding documentation needs.
• •Conduct and support third-party risk management processes, including KYC, KYB, enhanced due diligence, policy and procedure reviews, customer onboarding flow reviews, and risk assessments.
• •Review partner-provided documentation for completeness, consistency, and potential risk indicators.
• •Track partner onboarding progress, follow up on outstanding items, and help ensure required documents are submitted ahead of launch deadlines.
• •Respond to partner questions related to the onboarding and due diligence process, escalating requests or issues as appropriate.
• •Work closely with internal teams, including Operations, Compliance, AML, Legal, Product, and Project Management, to ensure partner integrations meet internal requirements.
• •Identify process gaps, recurring partner questions, or documentation issues, and contribute to improvements in the partner onboarding and diligence process.
• •Maintain accurate records of diligence reviews, decisions, approvals, and supporting documentation.

• •Competitive Salary & Stock Options
• •Health Benefits
• •New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
• •Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
• •Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.

• •2–3 years of experience in risk management, operational risk, third-party risk, compliance, AML, financial crime, or related functions within financial services, fintech, brokerage, or another regulated industry.

• •Comfort working with international partners and reviewing diligence materials across different jurisdictions and regulatory environments.

• •Strong critical thinking skills with the ability to identify anomalies, inconsistencies, gaps, and potential risk indicators in documentation, data, and partner responses.

• •Strong project management and prioritization skills, with the ability to manage multiple partner onboarding processes simultaneously.

• •Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain requirements clearly to external partners and internal stakeholders.

• •Ability to work effectively across Risk, Compliance, AML, Operations, Legal, Product, and Project Management teams.

• •A self-starter mindset with strong accountability, sound judgment, and the ability to operate independently in a rapidly evolving environment.

• •Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Economics, Risk Management, Criminal Justice, International Relations, or a related field.