Due Diligence Analyst - APAC

Who We Are:

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.

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, totalling over 10 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.

Alpaca is proudly backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

Our Team Members:

We're a dynamic team of 400+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond!

We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.

About the Role Alpaca is looking for a collaborative and detail-oriented Due Diligence Analyst - APAC to join our Risk team. In this role, you will support the onboarding of new partners, including international fintechs and financial institutions, by helping ensure that required due diligence, risk, compliance, and AML standards are met before launch.

This is a hands-on, partner-facing role that sits at the intersection of risk management, third-party due diligence, compliance, operations, and project execution. You will help evaluate prospective partners, review key documentation, coordinate internal requirements, and guide partners through the onboarding process.

The ideal candidate is organized, analytical, comfortable communicating with external stakeholders, and able to manage multiple onboarding workstreams in a fast-paced environment.

What You’ll Be Doing

• 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.

What You’ll Need

• Experience: 2–3 years of experience in risk management, operational risk, third-party risk,...