As a Vice President in Global Financial Crimes Compliance - Digital Asset Intelligence Operations, you will lead a high-performing team responsible for detecting, investigating, and mitigating money laundering and terrorist financing (ML/TF) risks across both fiat and digital assets. Additionally, you will collaborate with partners across Risk, Operations, Technology, and Legal to design innovative detection approaches and deliver impactful intelligence with a special focus on blockchain-based products, platforms, and customer and entity types across global markets. You help us strengthen our controls, inform strategy, and share appropriate insights while fostering an inclusive, growth-oriented team culture.

Job responsibilities

• Coach, train, and upskill the team on current and emerging risk typologies, including digital asset typologies; lead workshops to drive awareness of on-chain risks and investigative best practices.
• Produce and maintain reporting that monitors key trends (on-chain and off-chain), articulates risk drivers, and recommends risk-mitigating actions to leadership.
• Partner with data analysts and technology teams to design typologies and help build monitoring/detection tools for fiat and digital assets, including on-chain tracing, clustering, wallet/VASP screening, and cross-chain analytics.
• Identify and acquire relevant customer, transaction, exchange/VASP, and on-chain data across platforms to assess suspicious and high-risk activity; ensure appropriate data governance and controls.
• Lead and conduct complex investigations employing blockchain analytics and forensic tools (e.g., Chainalysis Reactor, Elliptic, TRM Labs) alongside traditional AML platforms; resolve cases and escalate significant matters.
• Drive process improvements and efficiencies that anticipate stakeholder needs and scale globally (case triage, risk-based prioritization, alert tuning, and typology iteration for digital assets and fiat).
• Coordinate investigative activities within GFCC and across lines of business, regions, and functions; present intelligence findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders, Legal, Audit, and Risk.
• Share appropriate information with external law enforcement in alignment with policy and legal requirements; support responses to regulatory inquiries and exams.
• Collaborate with Anti-Money Laundering Investigations and senior stakeholders to enhance detection and reporting outcomes across digital assets and traditional payment rails.
• Ensure accurate and timely preparation and filing of Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) in accordance with FinCEN, BSA/AML, and sanctions standards.
• Independently manage the team’s case inventory, set priorities, and allocate resources to meet departmental objectives and service-level expectations.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 5 years of financial crime investigations experience, including SAR preparation and filing; at least 3 years focused on digital asset investigations or compliance.
• Demonstrated people leadership and team development experience, including coaching investigators and enhancing capabilities.
• Proven project management experience delivering defined outcomes (process scaling, typology launches, alert optimization).
• Expert knowledge of banking systems and AML typologies, with specialization in digital asset typologies and cryptocurrency trends.
• Proficiency with BSA/AML and sanctions regulatory requirements (including OFAC) and familiarity with FinCEN guidance relevant to digital assets.
• Must have hands-on experience using Chainalysis reactor to trace and assess suspicious activity; experience with digital asset transaction monitoring and wallet/VASP screening.
• Experience acquiring and analyzing customer and transaction data across multiple systems, including exchange/VASP data and on-chain sources; ability to synthesize complex findings into clear, actionable recommendations.
• Strong collaboration skills with partners across businesses, regions, and functions; confident presenter to senior audiences.
• Excellent written and verbal communication tailored to technical and non-technical stakeholders; high attention to detail, sound judgment, and commitment to ethical decision-making.
• Ability to operate amid ambiguity, prioritize multiple tasks, and manage case queues to meet objectives.

Preferredqualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Breadth across typologies including terrorist financing, fraud, human trafficking/smuggling, transnational criminal organizations, corruption, cybercrime, proliferation financing, internal risk and sanctions, wildlife trafficking, and cyber-enabled laundering.
• Familiarity with tokenization, DeFi protocols and platforms, stablecoins, smart contracts, cross-chain activity, and other emerging digital asset technologies.
• Prior collaboration with law enforcement, regulatory counterparts, or industry consortia on digital asset investigations.
• Professional certifications: CAMS, CFE, CFCS; and digital asset certifications (e.g., Certified Blockchain Expert) or platform certifications (e.g., Chainalysis, TRM Labs, Elliptic).
• Proficiency with AML software and transaction monitoring platforms (e.g., Actimize, Mantas).
• Experience engaging global stakeholders and navigating complex, matrixed organizations; change management experience in scaling processes, controls, or investigative programs.
• Familiarity with emerging financial crime trends and digital asset products (e.g., digital tokens and tokenized assets), including typologies such as trade-based money laundering and cyber-enabled laundering.