Senior Compliance Manager (Crypto)

Location: Remote roles in EMEA

Company

OKX is a crypto exchange and developer of OKX Wallet, providing access to crypto trading and decentralized applications for retail and institutional users.

What you will do

• Interpret and apply derivatives and transaction reporting requirements across CFTC Part 45, MiFIR Article 26, EMIR Article 9, UK MiFIR, UK EMIR, and ASIC derivative transaction reporting regimes.
• Own entity-, product-, and transaction-level reporting scope, eligibility, reporting parties, lifecycle events, and destination repositories or authorities.
• Oversee daily submissions, including T+1 MiFIR transaction reports; investigate rejections and breaks, reconcile reports to trading records, and coordinate corrections and back-reporting.
• Define reporting data specifications with Engineering and Data, including field mappings, LEIs, UTIs, UPIs, ISINs, and pre-submission validation rules.
• Build and maintain controls for completeness, accuracy, timeliness, exception management, management information, and audit-ready records.
• Lead regulatory change, product and entity readiness, remediation, vendor and repository relationships, independent testing, regulator inquiries, and a small compliance team.

Requirements

• Degree in finance, economics, law, data science, or computer science, or an equivalent professional qualification.
• 7+ years of experience in trade reporting, transaction reporting, or regulatory reporting at an exchange, broker, bank, trading firm, fintech, or digital asset platform.
• Deep working knowledge of at least two of CFTC swap data reporting, MiFIR transaction reporting, EMIR, UK MiFIR, UK EMIR, and ASIC derivative transaction reporting; hands-on experience with both a US and a European regime is strongly preferred.
• Understanding of derivatives trade lifecycles and data required to report executions, changes, terminations, valuations, and collateral where applicable.
• Ability to interrogate large datasets, investigate reporting breaks, and explain requirements to engineers and business partners; SQL or comparable data analysis skills are highly desirable.
• Experience building or improving reporting frameworks, including procedures, reconciliations, exception management, regulatory evidence, and remediation of historical errors or back-reporting.
• Ability to make proportionate risk decisions, escalate material issues, and lead delivery across multiple teams.
• Experience with digital asset derivatives, including perpetual futures and options, and their reporting product classifications.

Nice to have

• Experience leading regulatory reporting change programs such as EMIR Refit, UK EMIR Refit, the CFTC reporting rewrite, or the ASIC 2024 rules.
• Familiarity with ISO 20022 XML reporting formats.
• Python or similar scripting for data validation and experience with data warehouse tools such as Databricks.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package.
• Learning and development programs and an education subsidy.
• Team-building programs and company events.
• Work with Trading, Product, Engineering, Data, Legal, local Compliance teams, reporting providers, and external counsel in a distributed EMEA role.