Head of Financial Crimes Compliance

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🚨 AML and Financial Crime

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💳 Fintech

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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

• Serve as senior FCC point of contact and subject matter expert on fiat and digital assets and contribute to the FCC framework • Identify and assess money laundering, terrorist financing, sanctions, fraud and other illicit finance risks across digital asset products, clients, counterparties and transaction flows • Provide risk-based advice and effective challenge across the product and client lifecycle • Assess cross-business and cross-regional impacts and promote consistent minimum standards • Design, enhance and oversee controls for CDD/EDD, KYC, sanctions screening, blockchain analytics, transaction monitoring, investigations, suspicious activity escalation and recordkeeping • Review AML programs and internal control structures through policy and procedure reviews, gap analyses, risk assessments and regulatory compliance assessments • Identify and escalate material risks and control weaknesses and oversee remediation • Lead implementation of FCC technology solutions and manage blockchain analytics and digital asset intelligence vendor relationships • Develop transaction monitoring scenarios aligned to products, services and risk appetite • Lead testing, tuning and optimization of transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, customer risk rating and detection • Validate AML models • Perform and oversee data reconciliation, lineage and quality testing and interpret complex analyses • Improve data quality, system capabilities and automation • Monitor new laws, regulations, guidance, enforcement actions and industry practice and translate them into requirements and action plans • Support engagement with regulators, auditors and independent reviewers • Develop policies, procedures, training, metrics and governance materials for senior stakeholders and committees • Lead complex FCC initiatives from initiation to completion • Manage teams, delegate to managers and mentor junior and mid-level staff while remaining hands-on • Build relationships with executives, business, technology, Risk and Audit partners and industry forums or trade associations • Lead stakeholder discussions and deliver special projects as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• 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 • Practical experience in legal, financial, technical, risk or compliance background is preferred • 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 • Track record 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 design and implementation of FCC technology, including transaction monitoring rule development, tuning and CIP systems, and TM systems • Understanding of complex product structures, workflows, transaction flows and data dependencies • Ability to translate complex regulatory expectations into practical guidance, control requirements and executable plans • Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills • Strong project, time and change management skills • Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity • Remote work, no commuting to the office • Health, dental, and vision insurance • Regular team events and off-sites

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