Head of Financial Crimes

About This Opportunity

We are representing a well-funded, high-growth fintech company that is building next-generation financial infrastructure for business owners. Our client has achieved exceptional scale in a short time and is expanding its financial crime prevention capabilities to support continued global growth.

We are seeking a Head of Financial Crimes to own and build the company's financial crime risk management function. This role reports directly to the General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer and serves as the day-to-day BSA Officer responsible for a global suite of products spanning traditional banking, payments, and digital assets.

This is a hands-on leadership position ideal for someone who has run AML programs at scale and is ready to build, improve, and future-proof critical controls in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the global BSA/AML program end-to-end, including policy development, risk assessment, governance, and regulatory reporting
• Build and manage financial crime programs for both traditional fiat and cryptocurrency/stablecoin products, including on/off-ramp activity and digital asset issuance
• Partner with product, engineering, operations, and risk teams to develop and refine controls across AML/BSA, sanctions/OFAC, KYC/CIP, CDD/EDD, transaction monitoring, and fraud prevention
• Design and enhance transaction monitoring and fraud detection capabilities, including rules development, threshold tuning, typology analysis, alert handling, and quality assurance
• Manage regulatory exam readiness, banking partner reviews, findings remediation, and audit coordination
• Analyze trends across alerts, suspicious activity, fraud attempts, and transaction anomalies to identify emerging threats and drive control improvements
• Establish fraud response processes including case management, escalation protocols, and cross-functional incident response
• Track regulatory and industry developments; translate requirements into practical program updates and business guidance
• Develop training programs on AML, sanctions, fraud awareness, and financial crime obligations across the organization
• Create reporting and dashboards to communicate program performance, key risk indicators, and trends to senior leadership and partners

What We're Looking For

• 7–10+ years of experience in financial crime compliance, AML/BSA, fraud risk management, transaction monitoring, or related risk functions within fintech, financial services, or regulated payments
• Deep working knowledge of BSA/AML, OFAC/sanctions, KYC/CIP, and CDD/EDD requirements as applied to fintechs and bank partnerships
• Hands-on experience with cryptocurrency and stablecoin financial crime risk in a fintech or financial services environment
• Proven track record designing, implementing, or maturing financial crime controls including program documentation, monitoring frameworks, governance structures, and reporting
• Experience with global or multi-jurisdictional AML/sanctions programs
• Direct experience building transaction monitoring and/or fraud detection programs, including rule strategy, tuning, investigations, typology development, and playbook creation
• Strong analytical skills with ability to synthesize data insights into practical risk mitigation actions
• Builder mindset with ability to create structure and balance regulatory expectations with practical execution in evolving environments
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills across legal, product, engineering, operations, and leadership teams
• Sound judgment and risk-based thinking with ability to navigate ambiguity and manage multiple priorities in fast-paced, high-growth settings
• Bias toward action and willingness to roll up sleeves to get things done

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Pay

The client offers $210,000–$260,000+ annually depending on experience, plus equity compensation.

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