Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will maintain core AML/ATF compliance activities, trace and review crypto transactions, investigate alerts, and tune monitoring controls. You will update policies, support regulatory reporting and training, partner with internal teams on practical risk controls, and help scale compliance processes.
Requirements
- 1–3+ years of progressive experience in compliance, AML, or financial crime roles within the digital asset industry
- Experience using blockchain analytics tools such as Chainalysis, Elliptic, or TRM
- Familiarity with crypto analytics platforms or dashboard building
- Experience managing or supporting a compliance or AML/ATF program subject to Canadian financial services regulation
- Understanding of Canadian AML/ATF requirements, including KYC, risk assessments, ongoing monitoring, and reporting
- Knowledge of digital-asset compliance risks, wallets, custody models, and blockchain transactions
- Ability to interpret regulations and translate them into operational processes
- Written and verbal communication skills, including drafting policies, procedures, and management reporting
Responsibilities
- Support and maintain the AML/ATF program in accordance with FINTRAC requirements and applicable regulations
- Oversee compliance reports and escalations, including large virtual currency, travel rule, and suspicious transaction reporting
- Coordinate AML effectiveness reviews, testing, and remediation efforts
- Trace on-chain and off-chain transactions using Elliptic
- Review automated flags for high velocity, unusual volume, and suspicious patterns
- Tune monitoring controls and risk parameters to reduce false positives and improve detection rules
- Maintain AML/ATF policies, procedures, and internal frameworks
- Ensure compliance policies are operationalized and understood by relevant teams
- Assist with compliance training programs
- Partner with Operations, Technology, Treasury, and Product teams to identify risks and design controls
- Support vendor due diligence and third-party risk management
- Build scalable compliance processes
Benefits
- Performance-based stock option grants
- Comprehensive health, dental, and paramedical coverage
- Hybrid work arrangement after onboarding