Head of Sanctions

About the Role:

Binance's Sanctions Compliance team is looking for a seasoned Financial Crime Compliance professional to lead sanctions and CTF investigations across our global business. The role suits a senior professional who is comfortable with ambiguity, takes ownership of complex issues, and drives them to a defensible resolution without waiting for direction.

What You’ll Do:

• Own the end to end investigations lifecycle from intake of alerts, referrals, and escalations, through evidence gathering, disposition, and documented closure, applying one consistent evidentiary standard across the team;
• Applies sanctions regimes operationally, covering blocking, rejection, and reporting obligations;
• Enforces pipeline discipline through triage and prioritisation rules, SLA and aging management, throughput, and quality metrics;
• Leads lookbacks and remediation, including retrospective reviews, backlog clearance, root cause analysis on missed or mis-dispositioned cases, and feeding findings back into screening logic and procedures;
• Brings deep subject matter expertise in sanctions and CTF investigations within a second line of defence environment, including investigative frameworks, evidentiary standards, and quality assurance over dispositions;
• Manages internal stakeholders across all Compliance functions and more broadly across Binance, providing investigative findings and recommendations that inform how sanctions and CTF related risks are effectively managed;
• Builds and manages the team through hiring and capacity planning, training and accreditation, calibration on judgement calls, and development of investigators.

What We’re Looking For:

• 10+ years of proven experience in the (international) compliance / financial crime compliance domain;
• Knowledge of the cryptocurrency and financial institution business, processes, procedures and systems;
• Fluency in Englishis required to be able to coordinate with overseas partners and stakeholders. Additional languages would be an advantage.
• Strong analytical skills and sound judgement;
• Ability to work across functional and geographic lines;
• Learning agility and a critical and innovative mindset;
• Natural authority combined with the ability to inspire, motivate and help others succeed;
• A people-focused approach, connecting and interacting naturally with others;
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, able to convey complex messages simply to explain why change is required for effective management of sanctions and CTF risks;
• Adherence to Binance's values.

Nice to Haves:

• ACAMS or ACFCS certification is preferred.