Director, Fcso Digital Asset Investigation

Job ID: 36586

Location: Singapore, SG

Area of interest: Operations

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 14 Aug 2025

**JOB SUMMARY**
- The Director, FCSO Digital Asset Surveillance is a senior role responsible for directing and overseeing the end-to-end management of digital asset related alert escalations, from Screening and Monitoring to in-depth investigation and resolution of suspicious on-chain activities. Leveraging advanced blockchain analytics, financial crime compliance expertise, and deep knowledge of global regulatory frameworks, the Director sets the strategic direction for digital asset investigative practices in alignment with the Bank’s policies, standards, and risk appetite.- This role partners closely with Compliance, Legal, Technology, Operations and Product teams across the Bank, as well as external regulators, to ensure rigorous adherence to Financial Sanctions, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter-Terrorist Financing (CTF) requirements. In addition to leading complex investigations, the Director will design and deliver targeted training programmes to build specialist investigative and blockchain analysis capabilities across the organisation, while also supporting the implementation of the financial crime control framework into new markets in alignment to the Banks Digital Assets strategy.- By combining operational excellence, proactive risk management, and strategic foresight, the Director safeguards the bank and its stakeholders from illicit activities while enabling innovation and responsible growth in the rapidly evolving digital asset space.**Key Responsibilities**:

- Utilise advanced blockchain analytics tools to monitor transactions for irregularities and red flags.
- Analyse large datasets to detect suspicious activity patterns in cryptocurrency operations.
- Conduct in-depth investigations of suspicious transactions, wallets, and addresses.
- Trace blockchain transactions to identify potential illicit activity (e.g., money laundering, fraud, or sanction violations).
- Collaborate with internal teams to obtain context and insights related to flagged activities.
- Ensure compliance with Financial Sanctions/AML/CTF regulations and global Digital Assets frameworks.
- Work closely with compliance, risk management, and technology teams to enhance surveillance systems.
- Train internal staff on DA compliance risks and detection techniques.
- Provide expert insights and recommendations to improve anti-fraud and AML processes.
- Identify emerging DA risks and trends and recommend preventive measures.
- Assist in developing internal policies, procedures, and controls for DA transactions.
- Stay informed on evolving regulations, tools, and techniques in the DA space.
- Perform detailed testing of controls related to financial crime compliance, including DA surveillance, transaction monitoring, customer due diligence (CDD) and sanctions screening.
- Evaluate the design and operating effectiveness of key controls.
- Identify control deficiencies, root causes, and areas for improvement.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Strategy**
- Drives and influences to deliver against the Bank’s DA strategy.
- Keep abreast of markets developments (technologies, best practices, competitor strategies)
- Works closely with Compliance, Legal, Technology, Operations and Product teams across the Bank

**Business**
- Advisor for surveillance controls covering FIAT transactions with digital asset nexus.
- Support market expansion projects in CP25 including but not limited to Luxemburg, UK, Hong Kong and Singapore.
- Review new business requirements that look to leverage the surveillance tools and provide optimal solutions where required
- Support the Business, Function and CFCC in risk assessment/management for Sanctions, AML and ABC and optimal solutions to manage.

**Processes**
- FCSO Name Screening, FCSO Transaction Screening and FCSO Transaction Monitoring

**People & Talent**
- Promote and embed a culture of openness, trust and risk awareness, where ethical, legal, regulatory and policy compliant conduct is the norm.
- Stimulate an environment where forward planning, prioritisation, deadline management and streamlined workflows and collaborative, inclusive yet effective and efficient work practices are the norm.
- Collaborate with training teams to input to training curriculum to support closing of capability gaps.d accordingly until closure

**Risk Management**
- Strengthen first line operational risk management
- Ensure new technology products deliver effective management of operational risks in compliance with applicable internal policies, external laws, and regulations at a global level
- Act to minimize operational loss and audit failures and take proactive measures to respond to matters arising, identify and manage forward looking risks
- Embed the Group’s values and code of conduct across the function
- Help implement an effective and exemplary risk and control culture