BitGo is the leading infrastructure provider of digital asset solutions, delivering custody, wallets, staking, trading, financing, and settlement services from regulated cold storage. Since our founding in 2013, we have focused on enabling our clients to securely navigate the digital asset space. With a global presence and multiple Trust companies, BitGo serves thousands of institutions, including many of the industry's top brands, exchanges, and platforms, and millions of retail investors worldwide. As the operational backbone of the digital economy, BitGo handles a significant portion of Bitcoin network transactions and is the largest independent digital asset custodian, and staking provider, in the world. For more information, visit www.bitgo.com.
BitGo is looking for a Compliance Analyst, FIU who will report directly to our Head of Financial Intelligence Unit.
Responsibilities:
- Analyzing, reviewing, and investigating transaction monitoring alerts using tools such as Elliptic, TRM Labs, and Unit21 to identify and escalate financial crime red flags.
- Preparing documents and relevant information into a ‘package’ necessary for complex investigations that stem from alerts worked.
- Keeping a watchful eye over wider BitGo platform activity to identify potential financial crime red flags, including reviewing sanctions screening, negative news, escalations, referrals from BitGo employees or external parties.
- Collaborating with the wider Compliance team on program enhancements such as risk rule and detection scenario calibration, quality assurance reviews, and data analysis.
- Driving efforts to integrate transaction monitoring vendors into BitGo systems.
- Drafting and updating Financial Intelligence Unit procedures, participating in AML training and education efforts.
- Maintaining an advanced understanding of AML typologies that relate to cryptocurrency transactions, correspondent banking, high risk jurisdictions, and be a vocal point for current regulatory trends, enforcement actions and crypto related financial crime news.
Skills & Experience:
We are looking for teammates who share and practice our values: open communication, transparency, taking ownership, and a high level of craftsmanship.
Required:
- 3+ years experience in AML transaction monitoring, investigations.
- 2+ years of experience with using blockchain analytics tools (Elliptic, TRM Labs, Chainalysis, etc)
- Knowledge and understanding of global AML regulatory requirements and expectations.
- Strong investigative and analytical skills; experience leveraging multiple information sources to run an investigation.
- Experience dispositioning multiple transaction monitoring alerts within a given and strict timeline.
- A drive to understand the causes and reasons for account or transaction behavior and an eagerness to ‘paint the picture’ of an alert, investigation, or account review.
- Excellent written, oral communication, and argumentative skills
- Willing to learn and become an expert in complex blockchain based subject matter and crypto crime concepts.
- Ability to work independently and with minimum supervision; be comfortable navigating various internal systems and tools provided by vendors.
- Ability to stay disciplined and pivot when necessary in an ever evolving fast past environment.
- Organization and time management skills.
- Eagerness to work with other teams in a highly collaborative startup Fintech environment.
- The working hours will be 12PM to 9PM IST
Why Join BitGo?
Disrupting an industry takes vision, innovation, passion, technical chops, drive to deliver, collaboration, and execution. Join a team of great people who strive for excellence and personify our corporate values of open communication, collaboration, accountability, craftsmanship, and a client first approach. We are looking for new colleagues who bring innovative ways of thinking and problem solving, and who want to be part of the team that changes the world’s financial markets.
Here are some of the benefits of working at BitGo:
- Competitive salary
- IT equipment support for work
- Meal & Commute allowance
- Medical Insurance
- Attractive Well-being allowance (comprises of medical, wellness and fitness aspects)
- Snacks : on-the-house in the Bangalore office
- Great/Talented workforce to learn and grow with
Cryptocurrencies are the most disruptive change the financial services industry has seen in years. Join us and you’ll be able to look back and say you were part of the team that transformed finance.
Note: This role requires working onsite (Monday to Friday) at the Bangalore office.