BSA Officer
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DakotaFinTech
United StatesFull-TimeManager
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in BSA/AML, financial crime, or regulatory compliance within a regulated financial institution, fintech, payments company, or digital asset business
- Experience through at least one regulatory examination cycle
- Direct experience serving as a designated BSA Officer or Deputy BSA Officer
- SAR decisioning and filing authority experience
- Experience preparing for and responding to state or federal AML examinations, including trust charter or bank charter environments
- Familiarity with stablecoin or digital asset transaction monitoring
- Experience with transaction monitoring systems (Unit21 or similar)
- Experience with KYC/KYB providers
- Experience with blockchain analytics tools
- Experience managing external investigative vendors
- Exposure to cross-border or multi-jurisdictional compliance programs
Responsibilities
- Serve as Dakota's formally designated BSA Officer for FinCEN, applicable state regulators, and the federal trust charter entity
- Hold SAR decisioning and filing authority
- Oversee Dakota's BSA/AML, sanctions, and transaction monitoring programs across all US entities
- Ensure monitoring systems are tuned, effective, and defensible
- Manage alert review, investigations, SAR filings, and escalation workflows
- Maintain documentation discipline and audit-ready program artifacts
- Coordinate independent testing and remediation tracking
- Support regulatory examinations, audits, and remediation efforts
- Directly manage and develop a growing AML team
- Oversee external analysts and overflow support partners
- Build operating rhythms, case quality standards, and escalation clarity
- Design hiring plans and org structure as volume scales
- Work closely with product and engineering to embed controls into infrastructure
- Optimize and evolve Dakota's compliance tooling stack (Sumsub, Unit21, TRM Labs)
- Contribute to rule design, threshold tuning, and monitoring enhancements
- Identify opportunities for responsible automation and AI leverage
- Provide senior oversight across all US financial crimes programs, including MTL entities
- Act as the primary regulatory point of contact for financial crimes across US examinations
- Coordinate financial crime monitoring as Dakota expands into Europe
- Ensure appropriate risk posture across US compliance programs
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