Sanctions Investigations Team Lead

10 hours, 12 minutes ago
Binance

Binance

Binance operates as a leading blockchain ecosystem and digital asset exchange, integrating digital technology with financial services to facilitate the trading and management of cryptocurrencies.

Capital Markets
5001+
Founded 2017
$10M raised

Description

  • Own end-to-end investigation quality, including case scoping, evidence, narratives, disposition rationale, and closure documentation.
  • Review and escalate complex, high-value, and politically exposed matters, endorsing disposition recommendations.
  • Manage investigation intake, triage, prioritization, ageing, and SLA performance.
  • Plan team capacity, allocations, time-zone coverage, and surge response.
  • Report throughput, cycle time, QA results, and escalation volumes to senior management and governance forums.
  • Improve processes to reduce false positives and manual effort while maintaining control effectiveness.
  • Represent the team in regulatory, audit, and independent-review interactions, including response evidence packs.
  • Partner with Sanctions Advisory, Technology, Legal, and Financial Crime Compliance on typologies, screening, tooling, and material exposures.
  • Coach, develop, and manage investigator performance, career progression, and succession coverage.
  • Maintain investigation SOPs, playbooks, escalation protocols, records standards, and remediation of audit or control findings.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of sanctions, counter-terrorist-financing, or financial-crime investigation experience in crypto or financial services.
  • Direct people-leadership experience, including performance management, coaching, and investigator career development.
  • Experience building SOPs, investigation playbooks, and escalation protocols.
  • Experience supporting regulatory examinations, external audits, or independent reviews, including evidence packs and remediation.
  • Experience delivering measurable process improvements that reduce false positives or cycle times without weakening controls.
  • Hands-on experience with blockchain analytics tools such as Chainalysis, Elliptic, TRM Labs, or equivalent.
  • Knowledge of digital-asset evasion typologies and risks, including mixers, chain hops, and nested VASPs.
  • Strong knowledge of OFAC, UN, EU, and UK sanctions frameworks and CTF requirements.
  • Knowledge of sanctions reporting obligations, including blocking and rejected-transaction reporting.
  • Degree in Finance, Law, Criminal Justice, Computer Science, or a related field (preferred).

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and company benefits.
  • Remote-first, work-from-home arrangement, depending on role and team needs.
  • Career growth and continuous-learning opportunities.
  • Autonomous work in a global, flat-structured organization.

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