Who are we?
FalconX is a pioneering team of operators, investors, and builders committed to revolutionizing institutional access to the crypto markets. Operating at the intersection of traditional finance and cutting-edge technology, FalconX addresses the industry's foremost challenges: Navigating the digital asset market can be complex and fragmented, with limited products and services that support trading strategies, structures, and liquidity found in conventional financial markets. As a comprehensive solution for all digital asset strategies from start to scale, FalconX operates as the connective tissue empowering clients with seamless navigation through the ever- evolving cryptocurrency landscape.
Impact
At FalconX, you’ll help make crypto assets a successful asset class in the most compliant way. Some of the largest financial institutions from Wall Street to Silicon Valley and around the world will turn to us for the best market prices and insights on the crypto industry. You will understand the key money laundering risks within the global digital assets industry and assist in putting key risk mitigation controls in place. As a key member of the APAC compliance team and key contributor to the global AML program, you will learn and grow our company’s values which define our culture and drive day to day behaviors and decision making.
Responsibilities
- Lead the KYC and Transaction Monitoring Analysts and Associates by managing, mentoring, developing and fostering a culture of compliance, maintaining service level agreements and working towards continuous improvement.
- Liaise with internal stakeholders including Institutional Coverage (IC), Sales, Business Operations by providing KYC/AML/TM policy advice, status update as needed.
- Form strong partnerships with country compliance teams globally by balancing shifting priorities, ensuring policy and regulatory requirements remain at the forefront of execution and approach.
- Develop and maintain key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of KYC and Transaction Monitoring operations.
- Prepare regular reports for senior management on KYC activities, risks, and compliance status.
- Stay updated on relevant laws, regulations, and guidance pertaining to Digital Asset regulations particularly around KYC and Transaction Monitoring.
- Proactively seek and develop greater productivity and enhancements where possible through process improvements and/or technological enhancements.
- Support global and regional compliance teams on certain risk mitigation projects.
Success
- As a team lead, you’ll be part of a global network of high performing compliance leadership and a key contributor to the success of the Firm’s AML and Sanctions program.
- You consider yourself to be an expert in KYC regulatory requirements in at least three jurisdictions.
- To be successful in this role, you must work well under pressure and have excellent communication and written skills.
- You will need to be flexible, managing shifting priorities across time zones.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Law, or a related field; advanced degree or relevant certifications a plus.
- At least 10+ years of experience in KYC, compliance, risk management, or related fields, ideally with a focus on KYC and Transaction Monitoring.
- Team Leader: a strong track record of leading people as a people manager.
- Effective leadership: project manager and people experience with simplifying, consolidating, standardizing, and eventually automating certain (AI) processes.
- Demonstrated knowledge of compliance risks, operations, systems, tools and processes, including third party vendor solutions.
- Provide insights into trends in compliance operations to enable informed decisions about management of compliance risks.
- Understand the evolving digital technology landscape and partnering with the compliance leadership team to develop strategies to enable digital technologies and apply to day job.
- Responsible for designing data and management reporting, connecting the dots from different data sets, building data visualizations for easy identification of patterns, trends, outliers, and communication in a clear and succinct manner results to senior management.
- Excellent communication and written communications skills.
- Good judgment and analytical skills.
- Genuine interest in Digital Assets, AI and Web 3.
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Inclusivity Statement
FalconX is committed to building a diverse, inclusive, equitable, and safe workspace for all people. Our roles are intended for people from all walks of life. We encourage all those interested in applying to our organization to submit an application regardless if you are missing some of the listed background requirements, skills, or experiences!
As part of our commitment to inclusivity, FalconX would like to acknowledge that the EEOC survey has limited potential responses that you can select. For legal reasons, FalconX must use this language to align with federal requirements, however, we want to ensure that you are able to provide a response to our own voluntary survey questions about your identity that best aligns with your most true self.
FalconX is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee based on race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, sex (including gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), age, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, citizenship, or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law.
Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act and other applicable state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing undue hardship on FalconX. Please inform FalconX’s People team at [email protected], if you need assistance with participating in the application process.
What We Do
FalconX is a digital asset trading platform that provides clients fast, secure and reliable execution using data science to eliminate slippage and hidden fees.
We’re fortunate to be backed by a wide range of investors including: Accel, Fidelity, B-Capital, Tiger Global, Accomplice, Coinbase, Fenbushi Capital, Flybridge Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and others.
