Head of Financial Crimes Compliance

Acting as senior FCC point of contact and SME on fiat and digital assets, contributing to the FCC framework.

Identifying and assessing money laundering, terrorist financing, sanctions, fraud, and other illicit finance risks across digital asset products, clients, counterparties, and transaction flows, including blockchain, wallets, custody models, and stablecoins.

Providing risk-based advice and effective challenge across the product and client lifecycle, including new initiatives, product approvals, onboarding, and material changes.

Assessing cross-business and cross-regional impacts, promoting consistent minimum standards and documented treatment of regional variances.

Partnering with first-line and other teams to design, enhance, and oversee controls for CDD/EDD and KYC, sanctions screening, blockchain analytics, transaction monitoring, case management, investigations, suspicious activity escalation, and recordkeeping.

Reviewing AML programs and internal control structures, including automated solutions, through policy and procedure reviews, gap analyses, risk assessments, and regulatory compliance assessments.

Identifying and escalating material risks and control weaknesses, and overseeing agreed remediation.

Leading implementation of FCC technology solutions, including onboarding blockchain analytics and digital asset intelligence vendors and managing those vendor relationships.

Developing transaction monitoring scenarios aligned to products, services, and risk appetite.

Leading testing, tuning, and optimization of transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, customer risk rating, and detection, both before production and on an ongoing basis.

Validating AML models across these same areas.

Performing and overseeing data reconciliation, lineage, and quality testing, and interpreting complex analyses to identify patterns, risks, and conclusions.

Improving data quality, system capabilities, and automation to strengthen preventive and detective controls.

Monitoring new laws, regulations, guidance, enforcement actions, and industry practice, and translating them into practical requirements and action plans.

Supporting engagement with regulators, auditors, and independent reviewers, including exam preparation, information requests, and remediation of findings, as necessary.

Developing policies, procedures, training, metrics, and governance materials for senior stakeholders and committees.

Leading multiple complex FCC initiatives from initiation to completion, on time, within budget, and to stakeholder expectations.

Managing teams, delegating effectively to managers, and mentoring junior and mid-level staff while remaining hands-on.

Building strong relationships with executives, business, technology, Risk and Audit partners, and industry forums or trade associations.

Leading stakeholder discussions, identifying new opportunities to add value, and delivering special projects as assigned.

7+ years in Financial Crime Compliance, Compliance, Legal, Risk, Internal Audit, or a related control function, preferably at a financial institution or regulated digital assets business.

Deep knowledge of AML, CTF, sanctions, and fraud risk frameworks, including CDD, transaction monitoring, investigations, regulatory reporting, and common typologies.

Working knowledge of blockchain and digital assets, or experience assessing financial crime risk in new products, technologies, or payment models.

A track record of building controls for digital assets risk, including work with blockchain analytics vendors.

Experience conducting risk assessments and designing, implementing, or overseeing financial crime controls.

Hands-on experience designing and implementing FCC technology, including transaction monitoring rule development, tuning, CIP systems, and TM systems.

Analytical skills to understand complex product structures, workflows, transaction flows, and data dependencies, and to turn conclusions into actionable recommendations.

The ability to translate complex, evolving regulatory expectations into practical guidance, control requirements, and executable plans.

Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex issues, risk decisions, and metrics clearly at all levels, including senior management.

Strong collaboration and influencing skills across functions and regions, with the ability to provide constructive, independent challenge.

Strong project, time, and change management skills, with the ability to prioritize multiple initiatives under time constraints in a dynamic environment.

A strategic, inquisitive, proactive, and solutions-oriented mindset, anticipating emerging trends and favoring sustainable control enhancement and appropriate automation.

Discretion in handling sensitive and confidential information, and a respectful, compassionate approach to colleagues.