Global AML Advisory, Digital Asset Client Advisory at MUFG in Irving, TX

Job description

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count? Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world. With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career. Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded. The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details. Overview As an AML subject matter expert in Digital Assets, s/he is responsible for advising the Global AML Compliance Department and relevant first-line business leaders on strategies to identify and manage AML/CFT risks associated with Digital Asset customers, transactions and operations. S/he advises on the design, implementation, testing and ongoing effectiveness of relevant KYC, transaction monitoring and payment transparency controls. Job Summary · Leads maintenance of the global financial crimes Digital Assets framework, with primary responsibility for customer, transaction and AML control effectiveness matters. · Provide AML advisory support for customer types, operating models, products and services involving digital asset issuers, exchanges, custodians, brokers, wallet providers, DeFi protocols, and other blockchain-based services. · Develop and maintain customer and counterparty risk methodologies for DASPs/VASPs and other Digital Asset businesses, including considerations relating to licensing, ownership, geography, products, transaction activity, blockchain exposure and control maturity. · Advise on enhanced due diligence, onboarding, periodic review, transaction monitoring, investigations, escalation and exit considerations for Digital Asset customers and counterparties. · Partner with operations, investigations, data, technology and vendor-management teams to design and implement controls using blockchain data and analytics. · Develop risk-based requirements and procedures for on-chain and off-chain monitoring, Travel Rule compliance, wallet ownership identification control considerations, and red flag escalation processes. · Monitor emerging illicit-finance typologies and translate relevant developments into control enhancements, training and investigative guidance. · Serve as an escalation point for complex Digital Asset customer, wallet, transaction and investigation matters, coordinating with relevant GFCD stakeholders. · Support application of AML-related control assessments, including new product assessments. · May liaise with senior regional FCC leadership, support examinations, and/or act as a primary global FCC point of contact for regulators, internal audit and independent testing functions on relevant Digital Asset risk matters. Experience · Deep subject matter expertise in Digital Assets FCC, including strong understanding of related AML risks, blockchain data, blockchain analytics and digital asset operating models. · Demonstrated experience in or supporting a regulated crypto exchange, custodian, broker, wallet provider, stablecoin issuer, blockchain analytics firm or comparable crypto-native organization. · Strong understanding of centralized exchanges and DeFi ecosystems, including wallets, smart contracts, decentralized exchanges, bridges, liquidity pools and cross-chain transaction patterns. · Hands-on experience with blockchain analytics concepts and tools, including wallet screening, tracing, attribution, clusterin