Compliance Officer - AML & Trade Surveillance

Level: AVP

Client: International Cryptocurrency Exchange

Location: Hong Kong



Role overview:

An intermediate level compliance operations role responsible for supporting the implementation and continuous improvement of the organisation’s AML and Trade Surveillance compliance program, alongside responsibility for day-to-day operational transaction monitoring. The organisation’s compliance program aims to lead the virtual asset industry, and the successful candidate will play a key role in developing and maturing the program to this vision.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the implementation and maturity of the selected AML / Trade Surveillance transaction monitoring system, Operating Level Agreement, and procedures.

• Actively review transaction monitoring alerts to a defined OLA and procedures, and remediate accordingly where escalation is deemed unnecessary.

• Perform initial investigation on transaction monitoring alerts demonstrating characteristics of unusual behaviour.

• Prepare unusual activity reports for activity requiring further investigation by the internal FIU.

• Produce weekly transaction monitoring statistics and analysis for reporting to management.

Qualifications:

• At least 4 years of trade surveillance experience and 2 years of AML transaction monitoring experience.

• Demonstrable financial crime investigative skills, with experience of uncovering patterns of suspicious behaviour.

• Compliance qualification (e.g. ICA Diploma / ACAMS).

• Deep understanding of financial markets, in particular derivatives trading.

• Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English.

• Demonstrable interest in virtual asset financial services.

• Demonstrable ability to operate under own initiative.

• Exposure to global markets.

• Desirable

  • Exposure to blockchain transaction analytics monitoring.

  • Knowledge of data manipulation / extraction / presentation techniques such as SQL queries and Tableau.