AML Digital Assets Director

Pay and Benefits:
 

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

Your Primary Responsibilities:
 

• Develop, communicate and ensure adherence to department risk policies, procedures and best practices;
•  Reassess existing processes and create new ones that most effectively anticipate, manage and reduce risk to DTCC and its participants;
• Foster an environment of regulatory awareness and ensure regulatory compliance;
• Demonstrate and embed the behaviors and competencies that create a risk management mindset in the organization; 
• Manage suspicious activity alert and case investigation activity for digital assets activity. 
• Coordinate major projects with the business aimed at addressing expansion of digital assets monitoring.  
• Coordinate the design and development of scenario rules and investigative standards and practices, the testing and implementation of monitoring systems and investigation support systems, transactional data/quantitative analysis, and investigations trend reporting and analysis for digital asset monitoring. 
• Liaise with the FCCC and Global Sanctions Teams in the enhancement and maintenance of policies, procedures and processes related to compliance with global sanctions, transaction monitoring, investigations and suspicious activity reporting as it relates to digital assets.
• Ensure that policies and procedures for digital asset monitoring are kept current and in compliance with regulatory expectations. 
• Interface with senior-level internal and external professionals, industry regulators and law enforcement on Compliance related matters including regulatory examinations and reporting of suspicious activity incidents.
• Coordinate the timely and accurate completion of critical reports to keep Compliance management, and compliance-related DTCC committees or working groups informed of the current status of the AML activities.
   
• Mitigates risk by following established procedures, spotting key errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• 10 + years of financial services industry experience in Compliance, Legal, or Regulatory environment.
• 8 + years of experience leading or managing Digital Assets and AML program.
• Ability to work independently and with direction from senior and executive management
• Excellent technical, analytical, problem solving, decision-making and investigative skills
• Comprehensive knowledge of BSA/AML laws and regulatory compliance requirements
• Detailed knowledge and experience in blockchain monitoring and analytics 
• Relevant corporate and regulatory compliance experience 
• Detailed understanding of automated rules-based alert scenario development and optimization
• Ability to manage multiple priorities across varying functions
• Excellent communications, organizational, and interpersonal skills
• Legal and Regulatory/AML Compliance Certification a plus