About the Role
You will oversee the firm's sanctions framework and regulatory engagements and ensure compliance with EU sanctions regimes including MiFID and MiCA. You will lead investigations into potential matches, own and execute regulatory reporting obligations, supervise screening and onboarding flows to address compliance gaps. You will work with legal product and engineering teams to ensure all products adhere to regulatory requirements and monitor evolving EU regulations and global standards.
Requirements
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and collaborate effectively across global time zones including flexibility for late afternoon/early evening overlap with US-based teams.
- Strong working knowledge of MiFID and emerging MiCA frameworks supporting retail financial services, paired with deep expertise in EU sanctions, OFAC, and UN regimes.
- Proven experience navigating regulatory divergence between different global jurisdictions.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex compliance metrics, screening engine performance data, and key risk indicators.
- Experience overseeing outsourced functions or services, holding global teams accountable to local EU service-level agreements.
- Proven track record of engaging with EU regulatory bodies, including direct experience interacting with the Bank of Lithuania.
- Ability to assess complex issues quickly, provide practical, risk-based recommendations, and drive effective executive decision-making.
- Clear, authoritative written and verbal communication skills, particularly when documenting investigative findings or presenting to senior stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Drive the implementation and continuous enhancement of the firm’s broader compliance and sanctions frameworks.
- Serve as the firm’s ultimate escalation point and subject matter expert for complex sanctions alerts, conducting deep-dive investigations into potential matches.
- Own and execute the firm’s regulatory reporting obligations. Serve as a key point of contact for external exams, regulatory inquiries, and internal audits.
- Partner closely with legal, product, and engineering teams to ensure that new and existing products adhere to applicable regulatory requirements (including MiFID and MiCA).
- Maintain and update the firm’s sanctions policies and procedures, ensuring strict alignment with evolving EU regulations, UN lists, OFAC, local laws, and global corporate standards.
- Conduct independent assurance testing on sanctions controls, screening lists, and onboarding flows, actively driving the remediation of any identified compliance gaps.
- Manage asset freezing and mandatory reporting procedures, ensuring true matches are restricted and reported to applicable authorities strictly within statutory deadlines.
- Provide oversight of screening engines and blockchain analytics tools, offering strategic advice and tuning recommendations to the First Line of Defense.
- Monitor geopolitical developments and sanctions evasion typologies, translating regional risks into actionable updates for the firm's screening logic.
Benefits
- Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career.
- Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact and bonus programs.
- Top tier benefits to fuel your work including supplemental health insurance ancillary insurance and mental health support programs.
- Lifestyle wallet a highly flexible employer-paid benefits spending account expenses beyond traditional benefits such as wellness childcare learning and more.
- Time off to recharge including company holidays paid time off sick time paid volunteer time off parental leave and more.
- Exceptional office experience with catered meals events and comfortable workspaces.
- Monthly commuter stipend to help offset in-office commuting costs.