Sanctions Investigations Team Lead (Crypto)

Location: Malaysia, Singapore, or the United Arab Emirates. Remote-first, work-from-home arrangement; this may vary depending on the nature of the role and team.

Company

Binance is a global blockchain ecosystem operating a cryptocurrency exchange and digital-asset products across trading, finance, payments, education, research, and institutional services.

What you will do

• Lead end-to-end investigation quality, including case scoping, evidence standards, narratives, disposition rationale, and closure documentation.
• Review and escalate complex, high-value, politically exposed, material, or time-sensitive sanctions and CTF matters.
• Manage intake, triage, ageing, prioritization, SLAs, capacity planning, time-zone coverage, and surge handling.
• Track throughput, cycle time, QA outcomes, and escalation volumes; drive process improvements that reduce false positives and manual effort without weakening controls.
• Represent the team with regulators, auditors, independent reviewers, law enforcement, and industry bodies; coordinate with Sanctions Advisory, Technology, Legal, and Financial Crime Compliance.
• Manage, coach, and develop investigators while maintaining SOPs, playbooks, escalation protocols, records, retention, confidentiality, and remediation plans.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in sanctions investigations, CTF investigations, or financial crime investigations in a crypto or financial services environment.
• Direct people leadership experience, including performance management, coaching, and investigator career development.
• Experience building SOPs, playbooks, and escalation protocols.
• Experience with regulatory exams, external audits, or independent reviews, including owning evidence packs and remediating findings.
• Experience delivering measurable process improvements that reduce false positives or cycle time without weakening controls.
• Hands-on experience with blockchain analytics tools such as Chainalysis, Elliptic, TRM Labs, or equivalent, plus sanctions screening platforms.
• Knowledge of emerging evasion typologies and digital-asset risks, including mixers, chain hops, and nested VASPs.
• Strong working knowledge of OFAC, UN, EU, and UK sanctions frameworks and CTF regulatory requirements, including sanctions-specific blocking and rejected transaction reporting beyond SARs/STRs.
• Ability to conduct complex multi-source investigations and produce clear, defensible written outputs, including SARs/STRs; strong analytical and investigative skills are required.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, high-volume environment with competing priorities.

Nice to have

• Degree in Finance, Law, Criminal Justice, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Experience managing third-party or BPO investigation capacity, including quality scorecards, sampling, and corrective action.
• Experience designing or running a QC or QA program, including sampling methodology and translating scores into action.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first, work-from-home arrangement, subject to the nature of the role and team.
• Global, user-centric organization with a flat structure and collaboration with world-class talent.
• Fast-paced, innovative, results-driven environment with autonomy and challenging projects.
• Opportunities for career growth and continuous learning.
• Competitive salary and company benefits.
• Equal opportunity employer with a commitment to workforce diversity.