The Opportunity:
The Jurisdictional AML SME provides senior regulatory interpretation and technical oversight for the investor onboarding AML/KYC program supporting a global alternative investment manager. This role serves as the primary escalation authority for complex and high-risk investor due diligence matters across key fund jurisdictions, including Luxembourg, the Cayman Islands, and the United States.
The SME ensures consistent and accurate application of AML/CFT requirements within private markets investor onboarding, including entity verification standards, ownership and control analysis, substitute documentation governance, and Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) expectations.
This position supports regulatory readiness, quality governance, and client-facing advisory on jurisdiction-specific nuances impacting onboarding, lifecycle events, and ongoing monitoring.
What you’ll do:
- Serve as the senior jurisdictional SME for investor onboarding AML/KYC across Luxembourg, Cayman Islands, and U.S. fund structures, ensuring consistent regulatory alignment.
- Provide expert escalation support on high-risk and complex investor cases, including multilayer ownership chains, trust arrangements, nominee structures, PEP exposure, sanctions risk, and adverse media.
- Interpret and apply jurisdiction-specific AML/CFT standards governing investor due diligence.
- Authorize and govern substitute documentation determinations where standard evidence is unavailable, ensuring outcomes remain compliant, risk-based, and regulator-defensible.
- Support senior client stakeholders in resolving high-priority onboarding escalations, regulatory questions, and documentation challenges.
- Develop, maintain, and enhance onboarding playbooks, jurisdictional guidance, training modules, and escalation frameworks to ensure consistent execution across delivery teams.
- Contribute to quality governance, thematic issue remediation, and continuous improvement initiatives across onboarding, lifecycle, and screening processes.
- Monitor evolving AML/CFT regulatory developments and translate changes into operational guidance, control enhancements, and program updates.
To Qualify for the role, you will have:
- 8+ years of progressive AML/KYC experience, including multi-jurisdictional regulatory exposure within financial services or private markets.
- Demonstrated expertise in investor due diligence for alternative investment funds, including complex institutional and entity investor structures.
- Strong working knowledge of regulatory expectations relevant to private fund onboarding, including Luxembourg AML regime and CSSF supervisory standards, Cayman Islands AML Regulations and CIMA Guidance, U.S. AML compliance frameworks (FinCEN, CIP/CDD principles).
- Proven ability to provide credible technical escalation support and operate as an independent control authority with limited oversight.
- Experience interfacing with senior compliance stakeholders, fund governance functions.
- Exceptional analytical, documentation, and professional communication skills.
- CAMS or equivalent certification preferred.
Skills and Attributes for Success:
- Demonstrated professional integrity
- Dependable, flexible, and adaptable to new ACA initiatives and changing client needs
- Ability to exercise discretion and make independent judgments on matters of significance
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, small team environment
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues and clients
- Highly motivated and goal oriented; pro-active in one’s own education and career progression; volunteers for and shows initiative on both internal and external projects and tasks
- Dedicated to upholding ACA’s high-quality standards and customer service focus
- Strong organizational and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Proficient with Microsoft Office applications and comfortable working in a tech enabled environment.
What working at ACA offers:
We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. Our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options as well as a flexible work environment. You’ll also be granted time off for designated ACA Paid Holidays, Summer Fridays, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being. We also offer unique benefits such as Student Debt Forgiveness and Pet Insurance.
About ACA:
ACA Group is the leading governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) advisor in financial services. We empower our clients to reimagine GRC and protect and grow their business. Our innovative approach integrates consulting, managed services, and our ComplianceAlpha® technology platform with the specialized expertise of former regulators and practitioners and our deep understanding of the global regulatory landscape.
What we commit to:
ACA is firmly committed to a policy of nondiscrimination, which applies to recruiting, hiring, placement, promotions, training, discipline, terminations, layoffs, transfers, leaves of absence, compensation and all other terms and conditions of employment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.
