Senior Manager, Compliance Technology and Data

Circle is a global financial technology firm that enables businesses of all sizes to harness the power of digital currency and public blockchains for payments, commerce and financial applications worldwide. Circle platforms and products provide a suite of internet-native financial services for payments, treasury infrastructure and capital formation. Circle is also a principal developer of USD Coin (USDC), which has become the fastest growing dollar digital currency in the world. USDC has grown to over 44+ billion in circulation and supported over $1.7+ trillion in transactions in the past year. Circle’s payments and treasury infrastructure services available through the Circle Account and APIs helps bridge the legacy financial system and digital currency and blockchain based finance. Combined, Circle’s suite of services helps companies to participate in a more open, global and inclusive financial system.

What you’ll be part of:

With the mission “To raise global economic prosperity through the frictionless exchange of value,” Circle was founded on the belief that the internet, blockchains and digital currency will rewire the global economic system, creating a fundamentally more open, inclusive, efficient and integrated world economy.  We envision a global economy where people and businesses everywhere can more freely connect and transact with each other with new technologies for digital money and internet-native finance. We believe such a system can raise prosperity for people and companies everywhere. Our mission is powered by the values we espouse and which we expect all Circlers to respect. We are Multistakeholder, serving the needs of our customers, our shareholders, our employees and families, our local communities and our world. Furthermore, we are also Mindful, Driven by Excellence, and High Integrity.

What you’ll be responsible for:

Circle is looking for an experienced Technology and Data leader to help us build out a new global data and analytics function. This is a critical new role and you will be empowered to design and build a best in class team to support the Global Compliance Program in delivering exceptional results. This will be achieved through ensuring the integrity of the data used on a day-to day-basis, developing program insights and analytics tools and tuning models to support compliance officers in making informed decisions. 

What you'll work on:

• Partnering with the Compliance Program team and cross-functional teams to execute strategy and developing the data and analytics roadmap to facilitate program execution.
• Partnering with Compliance Program team and Compliance Product team to facilitate the technology controls design conversations for AML, Sanctions and KYC controls.
• Enhancing and automating compliance reporting solutions, including data collection, aggregation, governance, and reporting.
• Developing system performance metrics and implementing a Testing and QA process to ensure consistent and accurate data is produced at all times.
• Designing and building self-service dashboards, statistical tools and models, and reports to enable consistent and informed decision-making.
• Assisting the team that will document, maintain, and tune AML transaction monitoring rules, sanctions screening systems, and risk scoring models as well as detailing data lineage and model/rule assumptions and parameters for all models.
• Executing on the pre- and post- implementation testing of AML and sanctions models developed by Circle’s Product & Risk Analytics team and external vendors.
• Leading rule coverage assessments and risk-to-rule mapping exercises.
• Ensuring appropriate documentation is in place for all technical aspects of the Compliance program, which can be reviewed by regulators and external examiners.
• Supporting the model validation processes to ensure compliance models are continuously working within the risk based framework.
• Using continuous improvement techniques to drive maturity and drive automation and process efficiency gains.
• Performing analysis of structured and unstructured data to solve complex business and department problems utilizing advanced statistical techniques and analysis.
• Managing and developing a team of direct reports.

You will aspire to our four core values:

• Multistakeholder - you have dedication and commitment to our customers, shareholders, employees and families and local communities.
• Mindful - you seek to be respectful, an active listener and to pay attention to detail.  
• Driven by Excellence - you are driven by our mission and our passion for customer success which means you relentlessly pursue excellence, that you do not tolerate mediocrity and you