Compliance Manager - Crypto, Trade Compliance and Country Risk

Job Description

Ready to take your career global?

Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We’re looking for a Compliance Manager - Crypto, Trade Compliance and Country Risk to join our ever evolving team and help shape the future of global commerce.

This role will by hybrid (working 3 days per week in office at either our Cincinnati, OH or Manchester, UK locations). Please note this not a role that we can sponsor or transfer sponsorship now or in the future.

What you will own:

Export Controls

• Maintains and directs the enterprise Trade Compliance Program.
• Interpret and operationalize U.S., UK, EU, and international export control regulations.
• Conduct export-control reviews involving products, technologies, merchants, and services.
• Assess risks related to dual-use goods, proliferation financing, and sanctions circumvention.
• Support regulatory examinations, audits, and remediation efforts. 

Country Risk Program Ownership

• Maintain the global Country Risk Program and associated methodology.
• Conduct geopolitical and country risk assessments.
• Evaluate jurisdiction-specific sanctions, AML, corruption, terrorism financing, and trade risks.
• Develop executive-level country risk analyses and recommendations.
• Provide ongoing advice regarding emerging sanctions programs and geopolitical developments. 

Digital Asset & Cryptocurrency Compliance

• Lead compliance oversight for digital asset products and partnerships.
• Assess cryptocurrency exchanges, stablecoin providers, blockchain businesses, and virtual asset service providers.
• Evaluate compliance with FATF Travel Rule requirements and cryptocurrency regulatory obligations.
• Conduct blockchain-related financial crime investigations and risk assessments.
• Partner with blockchain analytics vendors and internal stakeholders to implement monitoring solutions.

Merchant Risk Reviews & Enhanced Due Diligence

• Conduct enhanced due diligence on high-risk merchants and strategic partners.
• Review ownership structures, supply chains, payment flows, jurisdictions, and products.
• Evaluate sanctions, export control, AML, fraud, and reputational risks.
• Prepare risk-based approval recommendations and escalation memoranda for senior leadership.
• Support onboarding, periodic reviews, and remediation activities. 

Regulatory Strategy & Governance

• Monitor emerging regulatory developments and assess business impact.
• Lead enterprise initiatives associated with sanctions, trade compliance, digital assets, and financial crime obligations.
• Develop policies, standards, procedures, and governance materials.
• Present risk assessments and program updates to executive leadership and governance committees.
• Maintain key performance indicators and quarterly reporting metrics.

Investigations & Regulatory Support

• Lead complex sanctions, trade compliance, and financial crime investigations.
• Support regulator inquiries, audits, examinations, and independent reviews.
• Draft regulator-ready responses, risk assessments, and remediation plans.
• Coordinate corrective actions across business and compliance stakeholders. 

Leadership & People Management

• Direct and develop a team of compliance professionals.
• Provide technical guidance across sanctions, country risk, trade compliance, and cryptocurrency compliance.
• Mentor staff and support enterprise training efforts.
• Drive a culture of accountability, risk ownership, and continuous improvement. 
• Digital Asset & Cryptocurrency Compliance

Lead compliance oversight for digital asset products, stablecoin initiatives, blockchain payment solutions, and cryptocurrency partnerships.

• Assess cryptocurrency exchanges, stablecoin providers, blockchain businesses, custodians, wallet providers, payment facilitators, and virtual asset service providers (VASPs).
• Evaluate compliance with FATF Travel Rule requirements, virtual asset regulations, licensing requirements, and evolving global cryptocurrency frameworks.
• Conduct cryptocurrency-related financial crime investigations, sanctions reviews, and blockchain risk assessments.
• Utilize blockchain analytics and transaction monitoring tools to identify sanctions exposure, illicit finance typologies, terrorist financing risks, fraud, darknet activity, and high-risk wallet activity.
• Assess on-chain and off-chain controls, including Know Your Customer (KYC), Know Your Transaction (KYT), wallet screening, transaction monitoring, and enhanced due diligence programs.
• Evaluate exposure to sanctioned actors, prohibited jurisdictions, mixers, privacy-enhancing technologies, decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, and peer-to-peer cryptocurrency ecosystems.
• Perform due diligence and ongoing monitoring of digital asset merchants, exchanges, and strategic partners, including review of governance, licensing, AML controls, blockchain analytics capabilities, and sanctions compliance frameworks.
• Assess risks associated with stablecoins, fiat on-ramp/off-ramp services, self-custody wallets, hosted wallets, tokenized payment solutions, and emerging blockchain technologies.
• Develop risk frameworks and governance standards for digital assets, including onboarding reviews, periodic risk assessments, monitoring requirements, and escalation criteria.
• Partner with blockchain analytics providers and industry stakeholders to enhance cryptocurrency screening, monitoring, investigations, and risk intelligence capabilities.
• Provide subject matter expertise on cryptocurrency sanctions compliance, blockchain investigations, and emerging digital asset regulatory developments to senior leadership, business stakeholders, and governance committees.

About the team 

Our inclusive and global teams win together every day. We’re proud to have the best minds in the industry, who you can learn from as you grow your career. The people, the energy, the connections – it’s unmatched. Come and be part of an ever-evolving company and get dynamic opportunities that go beyond borders. 

What makes a Globalpayer? 

Globalpayers think like a client, act like an owner and win as one team. We’re curious and innovative – always finding better ways to deliver impact. We empower each other to make decisions, and it’s our passion that drives excellence in everything we set out to do.  

Does this sound like you? Then you sound like a Globalpayer. Apply now to take your career global.  

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