Head of Financial Crimes Compliance

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as senior FCC point of contact and SME on fiat and digital assets; contribute to the FCC framework.
• Assess money laundering, terrorist financing, sanctions, fraud, and other illicit finance risks across digital asset products.
• Provide risk-based advice and effective challenge across product and client lifecycle.

Controls and Program Oversight:

• Partner with first-line and other teams to design, enhance, and oversee controls for CDD/EDD, KYC, sanctions screening, and blockchain analytics.
• Review AML programs and internal control structures through policy reviews, gap analyses, and risk assessments.
• Identify and escalate material risks and control weaknesses, and oversee agreed remediation.

FCC Technology, Models, and Data:

• Lead implementation of FCC technology solutions, including onboarding blockchain analytics vendors and managing relationships.
• Develop transaction monitoring scenarios and lead testing, tuning, and optimization of detection systems.
• Perform data reconciliation and quality testing; improve automation to strengthen controls.

Regulatory Engagement and Governance:

• Monitor new laws and translate them into practical requirements and action plans.
• Support engagement with regulators, auditors, and independent reviewers.
• Develop policies, procedures, training, and governance materials for senior stakeholders.