Compliance Officer Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• At least 7 years of relevant experience in BSA/AML, financial crime compliance, payments compliance, fintech compliance, banking, crypto, or a related field.
• Experience at a senior individual-contributor or management level in a regulated financial services, payments, fintech, crypto, or banking environment.
• Strong working knowledge of BSA/AML, KYC/KYB, customer due diligence, enhanced due diligence, OFAC sanctions, transaction monitoring, and suspicious activity escalation.
• Strong understanding of payment flows, including ACH, wire, RTP, cross-border payments, virtual accounts, and other bank payment rails.
• Strong familiarity with stablecoins, digital asset transactions, blockchain-based settlement, wallets, and crypto compliance risks.
• Experience with compliance platforms such as Sumsub, Persona, TRM Labs, Chainalysis, or similar systems.
• Demonstrated experience improving or redesigning manual compliance processes through automation, workflow design, tooling, or operational controls.
• Strong judgment in distinguishing regulatory requirements, partner requirements, internal policy, and risk-based business decisions.
• Ability to communicate complex compliance issues clearly to technical, operational, commercial, and executive stakeholders.
• Strong project management skills and ability to drive remediation and implementation work across multiple teams.
• Comfort working in a fast-moving environment where products, regulations, counterparties, and risk profiles evolve quickly.
• Must live within commuting distance of HIFI's office and be able to work in person most days of the week.

Responsibilities

• Own HIFI's BSA/AML and sanctions compliance program across fiat and stablecoin flows, including the annual risk assessment and independent testing.
• Oversee KYC/KYB and enhanced due diligence for institutional clients, fintechs, and financial institutions; make final decisions on high-risk onboarding.
• Manage transaction monitoring and investigations, including alert quality, escalation standards, and final review and filing of SARs.
• Run sanctions screening using OFAC and other applicable lists for clients, counterparties, and blockchain wallet addresses, and set standards for resolving potential matches.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for banking partners, auditors, and examiners; own responses to diligence requests and exam findings.
• Write and maintain compliance policies and procedures, including stablecoin-specific requirements under the GENIUS Act, and brief leadership on relevant regulatory changes.
• Partner with product and engineering to design onboarding flows, monitoring rules, and system controls; evaluate and select compliance vendors and tooling.
• Hire, manage, and develop the compliance team, and establish processes that allow the function to scale with transaction volume.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance