Compliance Lead, Gemini

• BA/BS degree or international equivalent
• 8+ years of relevant AML-related work experience within the financial services, law enforcement, digital asset services, and/or management consulting space focusing on financial crime and counter-terrorism financing
• Subject matter expertise in BSA/AML regulations with specific focus on the drafting and preparing of US SAR filings
• Comfort in a technology-forward company and facility with computer and web-based applications, including Google GSuite, case management systems, and web-based databases
• Superior writing skills, including the ability to analyze and assess large amounts of information into succinct responses
• Ability to work independently
• Authorization to work in the United States and fluency in English

Desirable

• In this role, you will lead a team of experienced investigators responsible for critical functions within the Compliance and the AML/BSA program
• You will have responsibilities including, but are not limited to, advising on the analysis and adjudication of escalated events of unusual activity, reviewing and ensuring the high quality of Gemini’s Suspicious Activity Report (“SAR”) filings, filing Gemini’s SARs with the relevant regulators, leveraging intelligence gained from business-as-usual activities to develop enhancements to the Compliance program and other critical components/development of the compliance program that may arise from time to time
• This position will have frequent interaction with firm senior management, third party vendors/auditors, and the Chief Compliance Officer
• Gemini’s Compliance team is constantly evolving and developing new operations and controls. In this role, you will contribute to and lead that development as an integral part of the Investigations Team
• Conduct investigations of customer activity to determine whether such activity warrants reporting or other action
• Review team escalations for SAR filings and ensure all SARs meet the high expectations driven by Gemini’s compliance-first ethos
• File Gemini US SARs, including providing SAR metrics with other compliance stakeholders on a regular and ad hoc basis
• Manage the SAR filing workflow to consistently meet regulatory and internally defined deadlines
• Advise compliance colleagues across the globe on suspicious activity trends observed in escalations
• Remain current with industry developments and new BSA/AML rules, regulations and guidance
• Contribute effective leadership to the Investigations team as an experienced professional and individual contributor, drawing on your diverse skills and knowledge-base to advise team members in their day-to-day responsibilities
• Gather information from escalations, different workstreams and sources to develop typologies and recommendations for control enhancements
• Balance numerous projects, queues and priorities in a fast-paced start-up environment