About the Role:
The Sanctions Compliance team is seeking a seasoned Financial Crime Compliance professional to lead sanctions and counter-terrorist financing (CTF) investigations across our global business. This role is ideal for a senior professional who thrives in ambiguous environments, takes ownership of complex issues, and drives them to defensible resolutions without seeking direction.
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What You’ll Do:
- Own the end-to-end investigations lifecycle from intake of alerts, referrals, and escalations, through evidence gathering, disposition, and documented closure, applying one consistent evidentiary standard across the team;
- Apply sanctions regimes operationally, covering blocking, rejection, and reporting obligations;
- Enforce pipeline discipline through triage and prioritization rules, SLA and aging management, throughput, and quality metrics;
- Lead lookbacks and remediation, including retrospective reviews, backlog clearance, root cause analysis on missed or mis-dispositioned cases, and feeding findings back into screening logic and procedures;
- Bring deep subject matter expertise in sanctions and CTF investigations within a second line of defense environment, including investigative frameworks, evidentiary standards, and quality assurance over dispositions;
- Manage internal stakeholders across all Compliance functions and more broadly, providing investigative findings and recommendations that inform effective management of sanctions and CTF-related risks;
- Build and manage the team through hiring and capacity planning, training and accreditation, calibration on judgment calls, and development of investigators.
What We’re Looking For:
- 10+ years of proven experience in the (international) compliance / financial crime compliance domain;
- Knowledge of the cryptocurrency and financial institution business, processes, procedures and systems;
- Fluency in English is required; additional languages would be an advantage;
- Strong analytical skills and sound judgment;
- Ability to work across functional and geographic lines;
- Learning agility and a critical and innovative mindset;
- Natural authority combined with the ability to inspire, motivate, and help others succeed;
- A people-focused approach, connecting and interacting naturally with others;
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, able to convey complex messages simply to explain why change is required for effective management of sanctions and CTF risks;
- Adherence to the company's values.
Nice to Haves:
- ACAMS or ACFCS certification is preferred.
Why the company:
- Shape the future of finance;
- Collaborate with world-class talent in a user-centric global organization with a flat structure;
- Tackle challenging projects in a fast-paced and innovative environment with autonomy;
- Thrive in a results-driven workplace with opportunities for career growth and continuous learning;
- Competitive salary and company benefits;
- Remote-first, work-from-home arrangement (may vary depending on the nature of the role and team).
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