BitGo is the leader in digital asset financial services, providing institutional investors with liquidity, custody, and security solutions. Founded in 2013, BitGo pioneered the multi-signature wallet and is the first digital asset company to focus exclusively on serving institutional clients. Active in both centralized and decentralized finance, BitGo offers market-leading trading, lending, and borrowing services. In 2018, BitGo launched BitGo Trust Company, the first qualified custodian purpose-built for storing digital assets. In 2020, it launched BitGo Portfolio and Tax, providing clients with a full-stack solution for digital assets. BitGo processes approximately 20% of all global bitcoin transactions and supports over 600 coins and tokens. BitGo provides the security and operational backbone for more than 1500 institutional clients in 50 countries, including many regulated entities and the world’s top cryptocurrency exchanges and platforms. BitGo is backed by Goldman Sachs, Craft Ventures, Digital Currency Group, DRW, Galaxy Digital Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, and Valor Equity Partners.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work on the development and implementation of formal fiduciary risk management and compliance programs.
- Identify, measure risks, and effectively monitor the business unit control environment.
- Play a key role in the development and implementation of AML compliance activities.
- Perform risk assessments of fiduciary risks and monitor the risk management process.
- Keep up to date on changing law and regulations impacting business operations.
- Provide ongoing guidance to the business unit in complying with fiduciary regulations and reporting.
- Compile, analyze, and produce financial crimes metrics across multiple stakeholders
- Contribute to the documentation, production and execution of financial crimes compliance policies, procedures, processes, and training
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of financial crime-related laws, regulations, and trends
- Reporting compliance activities and compliance audits to the Board.
- Concurrently serves as the Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) of the Company.
Requirements:
- Comprehensive understanding of global laws and regulations pertaining to digital assets and related activities
- Attention to detail, strong judgment, ethics and decision-making skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work independently with minor supervision.
- Ability to work in a highly collaborative startup FinTech environment
- 5+ years of relevant experience in a compliance or risk management position.
- Advanced degree or certification or relevant experience in the field.
- Attention to detail, strong judgment, ethics and decision-making skills.
- Ability to work independently with minor supervision.
- Ability to work in a highly collaborative startup FinTech environment.
- Candidates would ideally be currently based in the UAE and familiar with the applicable laws and regulations.
Why Join BitGo?
Disrupting an industry takes vision, innovation, passion, technical chops, drive to deliver, collaboration, and execution. Join a team of great people who strive for excellence and personify our corporate values of ownership, craftsmanship, and open communication. We are looking for new colleagues who bring innovative ways of thinking and problem solving, and who want risks to be part of the team that changes the world’s financial markets.Here are some of the benefits* of working at BitGo:
- Competitive base salary, bonus and stock options
- Opportunity to set the pace in a fast evolving industry
- Great colleagues and inspiring startup environment
- *Benefits may vary based on location
Cryptocurrencies are the most disruptive change the financial services industry has seen in years. Join us and you’ll be able to look back and say you were part of the team that transformed investing.
