Uphold is hiring a

Web3 Deputy Money Laundering Reporting Officer

About Uphold

Uphold is now the fastest-growing private company in the San Francisco Bay Area, according to the San Francisco Business Times Fast Track 100, 2022.Uphold is pursuing a mission to democratize investments and payments for people and companies worldwide. Founded in 2014, the Silicon Valley company today has more than 8 million customers in over 150 countries with an impressive 50x increase in Mobile App downloads during the first quarter of 2020. A bridge between the old and new money systems, Uphold allows people to buy, exchange and send more than 100 currencies, cryptocurrencies, precious metals and equities instantly. An engineering-led company with a social inclusion agenda, Uphold provides a stimulating and challenging home for the brightest and best talent.

Uphold’s unique trading experience - ‘Anything-to-Anything’ - allows customers to trade directly between any supported asset or currency in one step - physical gold to Bitcoin, for example - saving both time and money. Uphold supports financial inclusion by enabling customers virtually anywhere to open an account in less than 5 minutes and to invest with no minimum amounts. Customers can send money to virtually anyone with an email address free of charge. 

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The opportunity: 

Uphold is looking for an experienced compliance officer to join our growing European Compliance team as the deputy MLRO. This is an exciting opportunity to help build out our regulatory compliance program, supporting our local MLRO as well as the global CCO and wider teams.

What you’ll be doing primarily:

• Act as a deputy to the MLRO: Support the MLRO to deliver their responsibilities as regards the Money Laundering regulations. This means work on complex cases, strategic projects and coordinate cross-departmental initiatives. 
• Support long-term strategy planning and enhance departmental governance framework. 
• Work on ensuring policies and procedures remains fit for purpose 
• Brief the executive team: Write papers for internal governance to effect change to the control framework to respond better to risks or improve the performance of the function.  
• Project management: Respond to regulatory initiatives by providing leadership and direction for new projects to adhere to our obligations.
• Strategic insight: Be a resource for knowledge and understanding internally in order to make good judgements around regulatory obligations, audits, regulatory engagement, compliance risks and business development.  
• Ensure team success: Support team managers and have an oversight role for the front line operational staff involved with on-boarding new customers and ongoing account monitoring of crypto and fiat activity.  

Required qualifications:

• Minimum 4 years experience working in financial crime, crypto, compliance or financial regulation.
• Management experience - preferably at least 3 years.
• Specific experience in undertaking financial crime prevention (AML/CTF, sanctions, fraud, investigations, transaction monitoring) and law enforcement liaison 
• Project management experience, ideally in the compliance space
• Experience writing policy papers and reports, managing committees and supporting senior leaders’ work
• Credible stakeholder engagement skills
• Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously on tight deadlines
• Ability to work independently with a high level of responsibility
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience designing/documenting policies, procedures and presentations
• Fluent written and oral English skills

Bonus if you have:

• Previous experience working at a Fintech company, even better if you have experience in crypto or at the regulator
• Additional European languages, specifically Portuguese or French
• Experience writing SQL and communicating the results
• Professional qualifications such as ACAMS, ICA etc.
• Fluency in cryptocurrencies or other digital assets as they are core to our business

What we have to offer you:

• A fun and collaborative work environment in a company that continues to grow, driven by extraordinary and passionate people that keep us innovating and challenging each day
• Competitive salary and benefits
• An international team in a cutting edge field
• A flexible and enthusiastic environment with work from home opportunities
• Growth and career opportunities and the chance to be proactive and creative
• Open and transparent culture - we get together on a regular basis to share updates, strategic plans, and engage with each other informally over (virtual) drinks
• Interesting events that keep you connected with the team and celebrate our success

If this job isn’t exactly what you are looking for, visit our  Careers Page to check out all our exciting opportunities.  

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