BSA Officer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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Dakota

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11 - 50 employees

💳 Fintech

🏦 Banking

🤝 B2B

Fintech • Banking • B2B

Dakota is a financial technology company that provides a modern banking platform powered by stablecoins and backed by U. S. Treasuries. It facilitates global finance by allowing businesses to send and receive USD seamlessly through multiple transfer methods, including ACH, Fedwire, SWIFT, and SEPA. Dakota offers various banking services through global bank partners and emphasizes security, asset control, and automation to optimize financial operations for its users.

📋 Description

• Own Financial Crime Program Execution • Serve as Dakota's formally designated BSA Officer for FinCEN, applicable state regulators, and the federal trust charter entity • Hold SAR decisioning and filing authority • Oversee Dakota's BSA/AML, sanctions, and transaction monitoring programs across all US entities • Ensure monitoring systems are tuned, effective, and defensible • Manage alert review, investigations, SAR filings, and escalation workflows • Maintain documentation discipline and audit-ready program artifacts • Coordinate independent testing and remediation tracking • Support regulatory examinations, audits, and remediation efforts • Partner Deeply with Engineering • Work closely with product and engineering to embed controls into infrastructure — not layer them on after the fact • Optimize and evolve Dakota's compliance tooling stack (Sumsub, Unit21, TRM Labs) • Contribute to rule design, threshold tuning, and monitoring enhancements • Identify opportunities for responsible automation and AI leverage • Support Multi-Jurisdictional Coordination • Provide senior oversight across all US financial crimes programs • Act as the primary regulatory point of contact for financial crimes across US examinations as Dakota advances through trust charter and federal charter supervision • Coordinate financial crime monitoring as Dakota expands into Europe, aligning US BSA program requirements with emerging MiCA and EMI expectations • Ensure appropriate risk posture across US compliance programs

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in BSA/AML, financial crime, or regulatory compliance within a regulated financial institution, fintech, payments company, or digital asset business. • Direct experience serving as a designated BSA Officer or Deputy BSA Officer • SAR decisioning and filing authority experience • Experience preparing for and responding to state or federal AML examinations, including trust charter or bank charter environments • Familiarity with stablecoin or digital asset transaction monitoring • Experience with transaction monitoring systems (Unit21 or similar), KYC/KYB providers, and blockchain analytics tools • Experience managing external investigative vendors • Exposure to cross-border or multi-jurisdictional compliance programs

🏖️ Benefits

• Engaging problems that increase economic freedom globally • Competitive salary and equity • Employee-friendly equity terms (extended exercise) • Remote work, no commuting to the office • Paid co-working space/desk at an office • Health, dental, and vision insurance • Regular team events and off-sites