Team Lead, Financial Crime Compliance QA (Crypto)

Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Company

OKX is a regulated crypto exchange and developer of OKX Wallet, OKLink, and other blockchain products serving retail and institutional users.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and develop QA Analysts; set objectives, allocate workload, manage capacity, and conduct performance reviews.
• Own end-to-end QA reviews across Transaction Monitoring, Name Screening, Sanctions, EDD, and other AML investigations.
• Perform second-level reviews, validate defect ratings, resolve disputes, and make final decisions on complex or borderline cases.
• Design and improve scorecards, error taxonomies, risk-based sampling methods, procedures, and QA standards aligned with AML/CFT requirements and crypto typologies.
• Produce QA management information, dashboards, and trend analysis; identify root causes and emerging risks and present recommendations to leadership.
• Drive calibration, coaching, process improvements, AML projects, stakeholder alignment, audits, and adoption of AI-enabled QA tools such as QA Copilot.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in law, finance, business administration, or a related field.
• 10+ years of financial services experience with significant AML/CFT and financial crime compliance experience.
• Hands-on experience in AML Transaction Monitoring and Financial Crime Investigations, including alert disposition, case investigation, and SAR/STR decisioning.
• Experience managing, coaching, and developing teams of analysts or investigators.
• Strong understanding of global AML/CFT regulatory expectations and sanctions requirements.
• Excellent analytical, judgment, stakeholder management, communication, documentation, and root-cause analysis skills.
• Experience producing management information and presenting findings to leadership or governance forums.
• Fluent English with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

• Relevant compliance certification such as CAMS or ICA.
• Cryptocurrency or digital asset industry experience, including blockchain analytics tools such as Chainalysis, Elliptic, or TRM Labs and crypto-specific financial crime typologies.
• Experience in AML Quality Assurance or Monitoring & Testing, including scorecards, sampling methodologies, and QA frameworks.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within a compliance assurance function supporting a regulated crypto business.
• Team-building programs and company events.
• Wellness and meal allowances.
• Comprehensive healthcare schemes for employees and dependants.
• Competitive total compensation package.