About the company
At The Block, we see digital assets as a ubiquitous part of the future. As this space continues to evolve, we view our role as the trusted moderator and authoritative voice for those who invest in, work with, make decisions about, or seek to understand digital assets. We'll achieve this by delivering objective, impactful, and timely information across our three pillars: news, research, and data.
Job Summary
You Will
📍Policy Management & Governance – Design, draft, and maintain BSA/AML policies and standards; establish governance frameworks, review cycles, and exception protocols to ensure regulatory alignment and transparency. 📍Regulatory Advisory & Guidance – Serve as the subject matter expert on BSA/AML requirements, providing regulatory interpretation, guidance on new initiatives, and training to ensure consistent understanding across the organization. 📍Testing & Monitoring Frameworks – Build continuous, scalable, and auditable frameworks for testing, monitoring, and documenting compliance, including automation to reduce cost while strengthening controls. 📍Embedded Financial Crimes Controls – Partner with technical teams to integrate financial crimes checks directly into pipelines, workflows, and monitoring systems for seamless compliance. 📍Regulatory Change Management & Engagement – Translate new regulatory rules into actionable policy updates, coordinate with Legal and Compliance to embed changes, and act as a key liaison during regulatory examinations. 📍Reporting & Oversight – Develop and maintain required regulatory and internal reporting, monitor key compliance metrics, and provide senior leadership with transparent updates on program effectiveness. 📍Continuous Improvement & Risk Alignment – Drive ongoing enhancements to policies, testing, and governance that strengthen the BSA/AML control environment, reduce friction, and align with organizational risk appetite.
You Have
📍10+ years of experience in BSA/AML policy, compliance, or regulatory advisory roles within financial institutions or consulting. 📍Proven experience developing and managing large scale Financial 📍Crimes programs applied to modern product and modeling practices 📍Strong knowledge of Bank Secrecy Act, Customer Identification Program, FFIEC Examination Manual and/or BSA/AML Exam Manual for MSBs, and the ability to translate regulatory requirements into clear, quantitative standards and operational controls 📍Familiarity with contemporary technological approaches for compliance policy management and comfort working directly with technical teams to design requirement documents
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