Sanctions Investigations Lead (Remote)

Binance; Singapore; Remote; SGD 260,000 - 340,000; Full time

Job summary

Binance is seeking a senior sanctions and counter-terrorist-financing investigations leader to guide a global team across the firm's footprint. You will own investigation quality, escalation handling, and regulatory evidence packs while balancing throughput with risk controls.

Lead cross-border investigations, coordinate with regulators and auditors, and drive tooling adoption, process improvements, and professional development within the team.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in sanctions or financial crime investigations in crypto/finance.
• Direct people leadership including performance management.
• Experience building SOPs, playbooks and escalation protocols.
• Experience with regulatory exams or external audits.
• Experience reducing false positives or cycle times with controls.
• Hands-on with blockchain analytics tools: Chainalysis, Elliptic, TRM or equivalent.
• Knowledge of OFAC, UN, EU, UK sanctions frameworks.
• Experience reporting obligations beyond SARs/STRs.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end investigation quality, including case scoping and evidence standards.
• Review complex or high-risk matters and endorse disposition recommendations.
• Ensure dispositions are defensible under sanctions regimes and audits.
• Manage intake, triage, and ageing; prioritize by risk and meet SLAs.
• Plan capacity across time zones and handle surges.
• Report throughput, cycle time, QA outcomes, and escalation volumes.
• Drive process improvements to reduce false positives and manual work.
• Represent team to regulators, auditors, and reviewers; ensure evidence packs.
• Collaborate with Sanctions Advisory and Technology on rules and tooling.
• Coach investigators and support career progression.
• Develop team knowledge of typologies and digital-asset risks.
• Drive training and AI-assisted workflows; validate outputs.
• Maintain SOPs and escalation protocols; ensure confidentiality.
• Support internal audits and remediation of findings.

Skills

Sanctions investigations

CTF investigations

People leadership

SOPs / playbooks

Regulatory exams / audits

Process improvement

Blockchain analytics

Education

Degree in Finance, Law, Criminal Justice, Computer Science

Tools

Chainalysis

Elliptic

TRM Labs

Job description

Binance is seeking a senior sanctions and counter-terrorist-financing investigations leader to guide a global team across the firm's footprint. You will own investigation quality, escalation handling, and regulatory evidence packs while balancing throughput with risk controls.

Lead cross-border investigations, coordinate with regulators and auditors, and drive tooling adoption, process improvements, and professional development within the team.