Compliance Manager, Monitoring & Investigations

Ondo Finance • New York, NY

6h • Remote

About The Position

Ondo Finance is seeking a Compliance Manager to lead and strengthen its monitoring and investigations program across fiat and on-chain activity. The role owns transaction monitoring, secondary market and trade surveillance, investigations, and regulatory reporting, and partners with Legal, Product, Engineering, and Operations as the company scales. It is suited to a hands-on investigator able to trace blockchain funds, analyze trading patterns for potential manipulation, and prepare SAR narratives that meet regulatory scrutiny.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in financial crimes compliance, with significant hands-on work in investigations, AML/BSA, and transaction monitoring.
• Demonstrated experience with blockchain analytics tools such as Chainalysis (Reactor, KYT), TRM Labs, or Elliptic, and the ability to trace funds independently on-chain.
• Strong working knowledge of the BSA, USA PATRIOT Act, FinCEN guidance, and OFAC sanctions requirements.
• A track record of writing high-quality SAR narratives and investigation reports.
• Strong analytical skills, including the ability to work with large datasets and identify anomalous patterns.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, sound judgment, and the ability to handle sensitive matters with discretion.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with trade surveillance or market abuse detection at a broker-dealer, exchange, ATS, or digital asset trading venue.
• Familiarity with securities regulations (SEC, FINRA) and how they apply to tokenized assets or digital securities.
• Experience building or scaling a monitoring program at a high-growth fintech or crypto company.
• Experience managing or mentoring analysts.
• Certifications such as CAMS, CCAS, CFE, or CCI.

Responsibilities

• Own the day-to-day transaction monitoring program for fiat and digital asset flows, including alert review, escalation, and disposition.
• Design, tune, and document monitoring rules and scenarios based on the firm's risk assessment, typologies, and emerging threats.
• Use blockchain analytics tools to assess wallet exposure, counterparty risk, and illicit-finance indicators, including sanctions, mixers, darknet markets, scams, and ransomware.
• Track alert volumes, false-positive rates, and SLAs, and improve program efficiency and coverage.
• Build and run surveillance for trading activity on primary and secondary markets, including on-chain transfers, DEX/CEX activity, and OTC flows.
• Detect and investigate potential market abuse, including wash trading, spoofing, layering, front-running, pump-and-dump schemes, and insider trading.
• Work with Engineering and Data teams on surveillance tooling, data pipelines, and alert logic.
• Maintain reporting procedures, quality control checks, and audit-ready documentation.
• Support regulatory exams, independent audits, and responses to regulator inquiries.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including salary, future token rights, and/or equity according to preferences.
• Full medical, vision, and dental benefits.
• Flexible vacation policy (PTO).
• Remote-first team across many countries.
• Opportunity to help shape the company's vision, culture, and design practices.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed