Compliance Manager, Monitoring & Investigations

About the role

At Ondo Finance, you will lead the transaction monitoring program, ensuring compliance with regulations across fiat and digital asset transactions. Your responsibilities will include designing monitoring rules, investigating potential market abuse, and collaborating with engineering and data teams to enhance surveillance tools.

The firm operates in a remote-first environment with a focus on institutional-grade blockchain investment products. As a key member of the compliance team, you will help shape the compliance programs in a fast-growing fintech landscape, working alongside experienced professionals from top financial institutions.

Skills that matter here

• blockchain analytics tools: You will utilize tools like Chainalysis and TRM Labs to trace funds and assess risks associated with digital assets.
• financial crimes compliance: Your role will require significant experience in AML/BSA and transaction monitoring to effectively manage compliance risks.
• data analysis: Strong analytical skills are essential for spotting anomalies in large datasets related to transactions.

Who this role suits

• A professional with over five years of experience in financial crimes compliance.
• Someone who is detail-oriented and capable of handling sensitive information with discretion.
• An individual who excels in communication and can write high-quality reports and narratives.

From the employer

• Own the day-to-day transaction monitoring program for fiat and digital asset flows, including alert review, escalation, and disposition.
• Design, tune, and document monitoring rules and scenarios based on the firm's risk assessment, typologies, and emerging threats.
• Use blockchain analytics tools to assess wallet exposure, counterparty risk, and illicit-finance indicators such as sanctions, mixers, darknet markets, scams, and ransomware.
• Track alert volumes, false-positive rates, and SLAs, and drive improvements in efficiency and coverage.
• Build and run surveillance for trading activity on primary and secondary markets, including on-chain transfers, DEX/CEX activity, and OTC flows.
• Detect and investigate potential market abuse, including wash trading, spoofing, layering, front-running, pump-and-dump schemes, and insider trading.
• Work with Engineering and Data teams on surveillance tooling, data pipelines, and alert logic.
• Maintain reporting procedures, quality control checks, and audit-ready documentation.
• Support regulatory exams, independent audits, and responses to regulator inquiries.

• 5+ years of experience in financial crimes compliance, with significant hands-on work in investigations, AML/BSA, and transaction monitoring.
• Demonstrated experience with blockchain analytics tools such as Chainalysis (Reactor, KYT), TRM Labs, or Elliptic, and the ability to trace funds independently on-chain.
• Strong working knowledge of the BSA, USA PATRIOT Act, FinCEN guidance, and OFAC sanctions requirements.
• A track record of writing high-quality SAR narratives and investigation reports.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to work with large datasets and spot anomalous patterns.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, sound judgment, and the ability to handle sensitive matters with discretion.

• Competitive compensation including but not limited to salary, future token rights, and/or equity (according to your preferences) — We are well-funded and believe that great talent deserves great compensation.
• Full benefits (medical, vision, and dental) and flexible vacation policy (PTO).
• Remote-first team across many countries — You will be an early team member helping shape our vision, culture, and design practices.
• A+ colleagues — Our team includes alumni from: Goldman Sachs, Blackrock, Two Sigma, Bridgewater, SpaceX, AWS, Meta, Google, McKinsey, Circle, Uniswap.
• Best-in-class investors — We are proud to be backed by leading crypto experts and VCs, including Pantera Capital, Founders Fund and Coinbase Ventures.