Senior Regulatory Specialist
Role Overview
The Senior Regulatory Specialist supports Compliance remediation, governance, oversight, and financial-crime risk work across global and regional functions.
Key Skills for This Role
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About Binance
Binance describes itself as a global blockchain ecosystem serving users across more than 100 countries, with offerings including trading, finance, education, research, payments, and institutional services.
Its stated mission is to increase freedom of money and financial access worldwide.
Role overview
The Senior Regulatory Specialist supports Compliance remediation, governance, oversight, and financial-crime risk work across global and regional functions.
Responsibilities
- Drive development and implementation of key remediation initiatives across Compliance and support the GMLRO office.
- Serve as a liaison between global Compliance functions and regional Compliance teams on special projects and initiatives.
- Support execution of Compliance governance forums and oversight programmes.
- Prepare programme oversight reporting and assist with board reporting for global and local entities.
- Oversee obligation mapping and horizon scanning for financial-crime risks across regional functions.
Experience and expertise
- Requires 7+ years of experience, including 3+ years in financial-crime compliance or AML; global or multi-jurisdictional experience is ideal.
- Requires hands-on experience building or overhauling AML governance frameworks, policies, assurance programmes, and Board or RCC committee structures.
- Requires experience handling SARs/STRs, high-risk customer decisions, and regulatory investigations.
- Requires deep knowledge of global AML/CFT frameworks and FATF standards, including KYC/KYB, EDD, transaction monitoring, and sanctions.
- Requires a background at a global crypto exchange, bank, or payments company with complex multi-entity structures, plus working knowledge of AML technology, typologies, and financial-crime risk assessments.
Collaboration and influence
- Must be able to influence without authority, navigate jurisdictional tensions, and standardise without overriding local autonomy.
- Requires a track record of collaborative relationships across cultures and time zones and comfort in a decentralised, matrixed structure.
Work arrangement
- The posting describes the arrangement as remote-first and work from home, with variation possible depending on the role and team.
Why Binance
- The posting highlights challenging projects, autonomy, career growth, continuous learning, and a competitive salary with company benefits.
- It describes a global, user-centric organisation with a flat structure and world-class talent.
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