Parallel Markets is seeking a bright, motivated self-starter to join our rapidly-growing operations team.
As an Accreditations Analyst, you’ll handle accredited investor application review, customer success and client communications. Your primary responsibility will be to help onboard investors and verify documentation. This involves a significant amount of client interaction, document review, online database research and independent thinking. Over time, our clients will expect you to be an expert in the space, and we expect you to develop a thorough understanding of the regulatory and practical issues at hand.
If it sounds like you’ll be wearing multiple hats, you’re right! We’re a small, elite team building transformational technology. We all wear many hats every day, and so will you. This role also has tremendous growth potential. You’ll have direct influence over the direction of your career at Parallel Markets. This is a great opportunity for someone looking to learn and eager for firsthand start-up experience.
About Parallel Markets
Private markets are shifting to online platforms at a rate of tens of billions of dollars a year. As part of regulatory requirements, investors must upload extensive financial and personal documentation. This process is painful and repetitive and leads to significant investor drop-off.
Parallel Markets significantly reduces this pain point by allowing investors to go through the verification process once, then enabling users to log in anywhere using a portable investor identity.
Responsibilities
- Review accreditation applications to confirm the applicant meets SEC accreditation verification requirements; authenticate documentation, verify applicant identity and evaluate customer risk, communicating with applicants as needed
- Work closely with customers to answer questions and resolve issues in a manner that promotes customer satisfaction and retention
- Assist in sanctions review, evaluating user matches in accordance with KYC/AML and CDD protocols
Requirements
- Highly detail-oriented and attentive
- Self-motivated, intellectually curious and analytical
- Excellent interpersonal skills — both written communication and professional empathy
- Collaborative, positive team player
- Highly detail-oriented
- Excellent interpersonal and writing skills
- Previous experience collecting/reviewing proof of income documentation, proof of net worth documentation, legal agreements, government IDs and/or other official documents a plus
Strong preference will be given to candidates who have:
- A background in financial compliance or knowledge of financial laws and regulations
- Knowledge of Reg D 506(c) offerings
- Experience helping non-technical people navigate technical solutions
- Experience working with online equity platforms
Compensation / Benefits
In addition to a salary range of $50k – $60k for this position, Parallel provides equity grants as well as a competitive benefits package (health/vision/dental insurance, 401k, home office setup, unlimited paid leave, and more).
Suggested reading: Parallel white paper
What We Do
Our goal is to empower the world with a digital identity system that puts you, the individual, first. We give developers a set of tools to integrate into their facial recognition, liveness detection, ID authenticity checks, and ID information extraction, while also baking in privacy protections that allow individual users to control their own identity data - creating a more privacy-centric future.
Why Work With Us
We have 2 offices - NYC and Berlin. We are a team of extremely smart, humble, and empathetic people empowered to disrupt the identity verification space by baking in the promise of privacy. Our co-founders started Passbase as a Rebellion - a rise against tech giants for changing the way they handle consumer data today.