Member of Compliance, Trading Compliance
Anchorage Digital
Legal
United States
Posted on Tuesday, August 6, 2024
At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto.
Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry's leading security infrastructure. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the only federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through Anchorage Digital Singapore, Porto by Anchorage Digital.
The company is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Learn more at anchorage.com, on X @Anchorage, and on LinkedIn.
You are a key contributor for ensuring a well-functioning compliance program of our licensed, regulated, and unregulated entities to serve Anchorage Digital customers in a fair and orderly manner. You have the ability to lead and significantly contribute to medium-to-large scale compliance projects.
You will help define the long-term strategy for Trading Compliance. You not only understand the “why” and the “bigger picture”, but meaningfully contribute to prioritizing the work within the team. Additionally, you will have cross-team exposure and are recognized as a reliable partner who can apply expertise to have significant influence within and outside the team.
We have created the Factors of Growth & Impact to help Villagers better measure impact and articulate coaching, feedback, and the rich and rewarding learning that happens while exploring, developing, and mastering the capabilities and contributions within and outside of the Member of Compliance, Trading Compliance role:
Technical Skills:
- Demonstrates strong knowledge in trading compliance (specifically CFTC swaps compliance), evolving cryptocurrency regulations, and brokerage operations.
- Has knowledge and ability to interface with regulators such as FINRA, SEC, CFTC, FinCEN, DFPI, and U.S. financial market regulators and agencies.
- Applies regulatory knowledge to business practices and can build out a compliance framework around evolving regulatory guidance in the crypto space.
Complexity and Impact of Work:
- Provides advisory guidance to first-line trading and brokerage operations teams on regulatory compliance and risk management matters.
- Assists with varied and challenging initiatives to support a growing compliance framework, including developing market surveillance, interfacing with regulators on licensing/regulation/exam matters, providing training, developing policies and procedures, and supporting the trading business to grow and diversify in a safe and sound manner.
Organizational Knowledge:
- Is aware of Anchorage Digital’s regulatory, licensing, and business expansion strategy to assist in successful implementation and is considered when defining the planning and goals of the team.
- Influences the compliance roadmap for implementing necessary controls for various business lines.
Communication and Influence:
- Crosses the boundaries of Trading Compliance and partners with others to ensure Compliance review is accounted for as needed.
- Consistently expresses clear, thoughtful, analytical, and solutions-oriented communications, whether in high-impact slides/decks, written communications in Slack or email, or verbal communications.
You may be a fit for this role if you have:
- You have worked in trading and brokerage compliance, including CFTC swaps.
- You have worked in crypto and have experience with crypto regulation.
- You have startup experience.
- You can think on your feet and pivot quickly.
- You want to build and work in a fast-paced environment.
Although not a requirement, bonus points if:
- You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :)
About Anchorage Digital: Who we are
The Anchorage Village, what we call our team, brings together the brightest minds from platform security, financial services, and distributed ledger technology to provide the building blocks that empower institutions to safely participate in the evolving digital asset ecosystem. As a diverse team of more than 300 members, we are united in one common goal: building the future of finance by providing the foundation upon which value moves safely in the new global economy.
Anchorage Digital is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported, and connected at work—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives.
Anchorage Digital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. Anchorage Digital considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with other legal requirements. “Anchorage Digital” refers to services that are offered either through Anchorage Digital Bank National Association, an OCC-chartered national trust bank, or Anchorage Lending CA, LLC a finance lender licensed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, License No. 60DBO-11976, or Anchorage Digital Singapore Pte Ltd, a Singapore private limited company, all wholly-owned subsidiaries of Anchor Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
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