Deputy Head of Compliance

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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🚔 Compliance

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Codex

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11 - 50 employees

💳 Fintech

₿ Crypto

🔌 API

💰 $15.8M Seed on 2025-03

Fintech • Crypto • API

Codex is a stablecoin-powered FX infrastructure platform for businesses that move money across borders and currencies. It provides wholesale FX liquidity, institutional-grade pricing, and an API to settle fiat↔stable and stable↔stable transactions, focusing on emerging and frontier market corridors. The platform offers sub-30-minute settlement on average, 24/7/365 availability, transparent upfront pricing, KYB onboarding in days, enterprise-grade security and compliance integrations, and supports USD, GBP, EUR, MXN, USDC, USDT and upcoming emerging market currencies.

📋 Description

• Review flows of funds for new corridors, products and payment partners and set compliance conditions before launch • Own compliance oversight of third-party payment models, outsourced KYB, partner-level controls and ongoing partner monitoring • Apply Travel Rule requirements and counterparty VASP due diligence to stablecoin transfers • Build and own the B2B cross-border payments compliance framework covering payouts, collections and stablecoin on- and off-ramps • Write and maintain AML/CFT, sanctions, KYB and transaction monitoring policies • Own corridor- and jurisdiction-level risk assessments and support the firm-wide assessment • Set compliance requirements for new products and client segments • Support licence applications and regulator engagement • Own transaction monitoring across fiat and on-chain flows, including scenarios, thresholds, alert logic and coverage • Tune monitoring rules using data and improve alert quality • Review escalated alerts, request information and decide whether to close, escalate or convert cases to suspicious activity reports • Write and file suspicious activity reports and maintain audit-ready case files • Work with Engineering and Product on monitoring requirements and automation • Make risk determinations on complex B2B clients and financial partners • Review and sign off higher-risk onboardings and handle Compliance Operations escalations • Support responses to due diligence requests and RFIs from financial partners, banks and regulators • Set investigation standards, SLAs and quality checks and coach junior analysts • Produce management information on alerts, ageing, SAR conversion, EDD pipeline and review backlog

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years in financial crime compliance, including at least 5 years in B2B cross-border payments compliance, such as payouts, collections or correspondent banking • Background at a reputable fintech or payments company • Working knowledge of payment rails and flow of funds, including SWIFT, SEPA and local schemes • Experience working on licence applications and writing compliance frameworks in at least one of the US, LatAm, APAC or Africa • Experience designing, tuning and governing transaction monitoring rules • Experience writing and filing suspicious activity reports, and handling regulator or bank partner scrutiny • Sound judgement to make defensible risk calls on incomplete information and explain them clearly • Hands-on experience personally writing policies, working cases and handling regulator queries • Comfortable interrogating transaction data and working with Engineering on requirements • Nice to have: direct experience with MSB, money transmitter or e-money licensing • Nice to have: experience with digital assets, stablecoins or VASP regimes, including on-chain monitoring and Travel Rule • Nice to have: experience setting up a compliance or monitoring function at a scale-up • Nice to have: prior experience as a deputy MLRO or in an MLRO-adjacent role

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