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Global Deputy Chief Compliance Officer (Global Compliance Lead)
Anchorage DigitalUnited States, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 20 May 2024
About the role
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.
As the Global Deputy Chief Compliance Officer, you are responsible for developing and overseeing the global compliance strategies for multiple Anchorage Digital entities and Compliance shared services, including but not limited to the trading, yield, settlement, staking, prime brokerage, lending businesses. The Compliance Officer will also be responsible for overseeing and managing pending licensing applications with the NY Department of Financial Services, FINRA, and other jurisdictional regulatory agencies.
You are a compliance and financial crimes subject matter expert in brokerage services and compliance matters related to trading and lending to provide direct expertise and guidance to various entities in their initial phases to help them grow and mature. You also contribute strategically across the Anchorage Digital enterprise in the development of compliance practices that support Anchorage Digital’s mission. This includes direct oversight of the company-wide training, conduct, and complaints policies and programs, as well as the policies and procedures framework.
You have managerial oversight of the Anchor Labs Compliance team, which services primarily trading and brokerage related entities, with dotted line oversight of international compliance teams. You also have managerial oversight of the Corporate Compliance Lead, whose day-to-day responsibilities include managing company-wide training, conduct, complaints, and policies and procedures programs. You work closely with these teams to define priorities and team goals aligned with the Firm’s larger strategy, and ensure teams and team members are managed through accountability, performance management, and mentoring to help each team member to reach his/her full potential.
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.
As the Global Deputy Chief Compliance Officer, you are responsible for developing and overseeing the global compliance strategies for multiple Anchorage Digital entities and Compliance shared services, including but not limited to the trading, yield, settlement, staking, prime brokerage, lending businesses. The Compliance Officer will also be responsible for overseeing and managing pending licensing applications with the NY Department of Financial Services, FINRA, and other jurisdictional regulatory agencies.
You are a compliance and financial crimes subject matter expert in brokerage services and compliance matters related to trading and lending to provide direct expertise and guidance to various entities in their initial phases to help them grow and mature. You also contribute strategically across the Anchorage Digital enterprise in the development of compliance practices that support Anchorage Digital’s mission. This includes direct oversight of the company-wide training, conduct, and complaints policies and programs, as well as the policies and procedures framework.
You have managerial oversight of the Anchor Labs Compliance team, which services primarily trading and brokerage related entities, with dotted line oversight of international compliance teams. You also have managerial oversight of the Corporate Compliance Lead, whose day-to-day responsibilities include managing company-wide training, conduct, complaints, and policies and procedures programs. You work closely with these teams to define priorities and team goals aligned with the Firm’s larger strategy, and ensure teams and team members are managed through accountability, performance management, and mentoring to help each team member to reach his/her full potential.
Technical Skills:
- Applies deep and extended technical expertise of current regulatory, industry and emerging trends in crypto custody, settlement, trading and brokerage compliance as they apply to Anchorage Digital, to provide insights, guidance and technical leadership and to ensure compliance with relevant laws, rules and regulations.
- Uses extensive knowledge of compliance best practices and design and is a key influencer across Anchorage Digital in the enterprise’s design of a target global operating model and implementation of effective controls to support Anchorage Digital’s various strategic initiatives.
- Is internally recognized as an influential leader and is involved in the development of Anchorage’s strategic direction.
- Ensures technical compliance and risk work is properly evaluated for important projects and advises on how to improve execution.
Complexity and Impact of Work:
- Key player and partner in helping business successfully grow and develop new business lines with the appropriate compliance programs, controls and procedures.
- Leads and coaches successful teams by coaching, mentoring, motivating the team members while navigating unexpected roadblocks. Ensures on-time delivery, including meeting licensing / regulatory deadlines and commitments, and prioritizes effectively.
- Identifies, influences, and/or resolves critical issues that may affect the direction of Anchorage Digital, including spotting and making the case for projects that span multiple teams, or inventing new or novel projects.
- Works regularly with open-ended and ambiguous problems that have impact across Anchorage Digital, clients and/or profitability and significantly contribute to our global success which may include new technology. Exercises strong business judgment in using consultants or third-parties as appropriate to influence outcomes.
- Exercises wide latitude in determining issues, objectives, approaches and guidance to critical compliance and regulatory matters that require an assessment of multiple intangible variables. Identifies and evaluates fundamental issues, providing strategy and directio
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