Compliance Operations Analyst, Sanctions and Financial Crimes

fun.xyz•New York, NY

15h•Hybrid

About The Position

Fun is building infrastructure for consumer-facing fintech applications, including onboarding, account access, and money movement that connects users with blockchain-based systems. The Compliance Operations Analyst, Sanctions and Financial Crimes will handle the sanctions and financial crimes casework supporting this infrastructure, including screening, investigations, and day-to-day compliance decisions. The role applies sanctions screening to a global, non-custodial architecture with fiat and crypto rails, reasoning from first principles rather than simply adopting bank or exchange practices. This is a hands-on position involving alert review, investigations, and edge cases. The analyst reports to the Head of Compliance (General Counsel in the interim) and works closely with Finance and Operations, Engineering, Partnerships, and Customer Support. The role is primarily in person at Fun’s Midtown, NYC headquarters. The team works together Monday through Thursday, with optional work from home on Fridays. The base salary range is $120,000–$150,000 per year. Total rewards may also include equity ownership, performance incentives, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

Five or more years of experience in sanctions or financial crimes compliance, including meaningful experience at a leading crypto or DeFi company, a digital asset exchange, or a financial institution with a serious digital assets practice.
Working command of OFAC sanctions requirements as applied to on-chain activity and familiarity with UN, EU, UK, and Singapore sanctions regimes.
Ability to reason about how sanctions obligations apply to non-custodial and self-custody product architectures.
Fluency with blockchain analytics tools and on-chain investigations across chains and bridges, including dust and address-poisoning attacks and the distinction between genuine indirect exposure and incidental dust.
Ability to independently trace transaction chains rather than relying on a vendor report.
Precise, defensible judgment, including the ability to decide difficult cases, document the rationale, and distinguish rules and norms from vendor defaults.
Comfort with SQL and AI tools, including the ability to query transaction data directly and use AI to work faster without outsourcing judgment.
Excellent written communication.
Comfort working at startup speed on a high volume of time-sensitive cases.

Nice To Haves

Experience building sanctions screening or investigations processes at an early-stage company.
Experience drafting suspicious activity report (SAR) narratives.
Exposure to money transmission, money services business (MSB) registration, or state licensing frameworks.
Regulatory, enforcement, or policy experience at an agency, trade association, or in private practice.
Certified Global Sanctions Specialist (CGSS) or Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) certification from ACAMS.
Familiarity with card scheme rules and the compliance surface of fiat payment rails.

Responsibilities

Operate wallet and transaction screening and monitoring, working alerts involving sanctions, scams, and address poisoning; investigate cases, decide escalations, and document the rationale for blocks, rejects, and releases.
Prepare blocked and rejected transaction reports for OFAC and implement new designations and FinCEN special measures.
Identify when general or specific licenses may apply and escalate those cases to Legal.
Maintain records that can withstand review by banks, partners, or regulators.
Tune matching logic, risk thresholds, and exposure rules in blockchain analytics and screening tools; test changes, reduce false positives, and assess provider performance against measurable standards.
Write clear, testable specifications for the in-house rule engine, including automated rules that help manage the review queue.
Work with Engineering, Product, and Customer Success to embed sanctions controls in the product.
Keep sanctions procedures current, support partner and bank due diligence, and explain the implications and limitations of the company’s non-custodial architecture to counterparties.
Meet defined alert-handling service levels, track alert volume and false-positive rates, and participate in a weekend and off-hours coverage rotation.