Compliance Associate - Financial Investigations and Sanctions

As a Compliance Associate you will:

• Design and build Anchorage’s independent compliance testing and monitoring program and framework.
• Perform independent testing and monitoring activities across all Anchorage business lines, company operations, and compliance programs, including anti-money laundering (AML) compliance, conduct compliance, brokerage compliance, and SOC 1/2 compliance.
• Identify control gaps and risks, develop mitigation plans, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to remediate identified issues.
• Collaborate with external auditors and internal stakeholders during external compliance assessments.
• Present compliance reports and results of testing and monitoring to senior management.
• Support Anchorage’s compliance team in providing regulatory and compliance best practice guidance and building a world-class compliance culture.

We look for teammates who have:

• Experience working in compliance (ideally with a focus on audit and testing and monitoring programs). 
• Strong organizational, critical thinking, project management, and interpersonal communication skills.
• The ability to extract, aggregate, and disseminate insights from raw data.
• Keen sense of risk and the ability to tailor compliance solutions for a technology startup. 
• Some combination of the following: creative, humble, ambitious, detail-oriented, hardworking, trustworthy, eager to learn, methodical, action-oriented, and tenacious. 

Bonus Points:

• You have experience performing or facilitating external audits (SOX, SOC, ISO, AML, etc.) at a technology company.
• You have compliance experience in banking, wealth management, or other highly regulated financial services.
• You read blockchain protocol white papers for fun, and stay up to date with the proliferation of cryptoasset innovations.
• You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :)