BSA/AML Officer & Blockchain Compliance
Bullish helps you trade cryptocurrencies securely through a regulated exchange that combines traditional order books with automated market making.
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About Bullish
Bullish helps institutional traders execute cryptocurrency transactions through a regulated Gibraltar-licensed platform. You can trade spot assets, access margin funding, and trade perpetual futures with cross-collateralized accounts. The exchange combines traditional central limit order books with automated market making to provide consistent liquidity and tight spreads across market conditions.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead BSA/AML, OFAC sanctions, and financial-crime compliance for spot crypto, derivatives, and tokenized securities. You will oversee regulatory reporting, risk assessments, investigations, training, and control design. You will conduct blockchain forensic investigations, assess on-chain risks, and develop controls for tokenized securities activities.
Requirements
- Experience in financial crime, BSA, AML, financial crime investigations, risk management, audit, or compliance with exposure to digital assets
- Experience managing regulatory examinations and examiner relationships
- Knowledge of the Bank Secrecy Act, USA PATRIOT Act, OFAC regulations, and SEC, CFTC, FINRA, and NFA requirements
- Proficiency with enterprise blockchain forensics platforms
- Knowledge of smart contract mechanics, token standards, permissioned wallet registries, and securities-law impacts on on-chain activities
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- Professional compliance certification preferred, such as CAMS, CFE, CRCM, or CFCS
Responsibilities
- Lead compliance programs for tokenized securities, derivatives, and spot crypto trading
- Implement domestic BSA/AML and OFAC compliance programs
- Maintain risk-based BSA/AML and OFAC policies and procedures
- Direct BSA/AML and OFAC compliance monitoring
- Oversee affiliate controls performed for U.S. entities
- Oversee regulatory reporting and timely suspicious activity report filings
- Prepare monthly and quarterly BSA/AML management reporting
- Identify, escalate, track, and remediate BSA/AML compliance issues
- Perform BSA/AML, CIP, and OFAC risk assessments
- Ensure required BSA/AML and OFAC reports and records are maintained
- Train employees on financial-crime prevention policies and procedures
- Lead blockchain analytics, wallet clustering, and transaction tracing investigations
- Conduct forensic investigations of flagged deposit and withdrawal addresses
- Develop processes and controls for on-chain trading, custody, settlement, and transfers
- Design controls for blockchain, smart contract, and tokenization risks
- Maintain tokenized-securities compliance controls including wallet whitelisting and transaction monitoring
- Assess token listings, blockchain networks, smart contract upgrades, and bridge mechanisms for compliance risks
- Translate on-chain activity into findings for investigations, regulatory reporting, and law-enforcement requests
Benefits
- Discretionary annual target bonus
- Performance incentives
