Senior Director
K2 Integrity is seeking an experienced compliance professional with deep subject matter expertise in transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, and blockchain analytics program design (rule setting, governance, pre/post implementation testing) and model risk management/ validation. Sitting within FCRM Advisory, this individual will serve as the practice’s go-to subject-matter expert and project execution lead across several cross-functional areas (traditional finance, fintech, crypto verticals). This individual will be responsible for designing and optimizing detection rules, validating model performance, documenting methodologies, and ensuring compliance with applicable regulatory requirements, including the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) Part 504 annual certification requirements and other applicable U.S. AML/BSA, OFAC, FinCEN, FFIEC, and industry best practices.
This is a rare seat for a practitioner who is genuinely bilingual across traditional finance (tradfi) and crypto. You will validate the analytics that banks, stablecoin issuers, and payments firms rely on to detect financial crime — from Actimize and Oracle Mantas to Chainalysis, TRM Labs, and Elliptic — and translate a fragmented set of client needs into a consistent, defensible, and scalable methodology that the firm can deploy at speed and at margin.
What sets this role apart: we are looking for someone who can do both tradfi and crypto — not one or the other. The ideal hire pairs deep, hands-on experience validating blockchain-analytics rule settings with rigorous TM rule design and coverage assessment discipline, has already built a scalable methodology, and actively leverages AI to deliver better, faster, and more defensible outcomes.
This is a remote role in the USA. Responsibilities
Model Risk Management & Model Validation
- Own MRM and model validation engagements end-to-end — pre- and post-implementation testing, ongoing validation, and periodic re-validation — aligned to current interagency guidance, including OCC Bulletin 2026-13 and state standards such as NY-DFS Part 504
- Apply a risk-based, materiality-driven approach consistent with OCC Bulletin 2026-13, tailoring the depth of validation and effective challenge to the complexity and materiality of each model and the client’s risk profile
- Develop and maintain model governance documentation, validation reports, and audit-ready workpapers
Blockchain-Analytics Tool Validation (priority focus)
- Hands-on validation, configuration, and tuning of tools such as Chainalysis (KYT), TRM Labs, Elliptic (Lens), and Merkle Science, including rule library configuration, exposure/typology thresholds, risk-scoring logic, and integration into TM and case-management workflows
- Serve as the firm’s credible SME on validating crypto models and blockchain-analytics settings
Transaction Monitoring Program Design & Tuning
- Design and calibrate rule sets and perform coverage assessments that map TM/sanctions coverage to the client’s specific business activity, products, customers, and geographies (never a one-size template)
- Lead threshold calibration, above-/below-the-line (ATL/BTL) testing, and pre- and post-implementation validation, through to ongoing monitoring
- Translate risk assessments into defensible detection scenarios and document the rationale for coverage decisions
- Partner with Compliance, Financial Crimes, Risk, Data Science, Product, and Engineering teams to implement and enhance monitoring and screening capabilities
Sanctions Screening Validation
- Validate and tune sanctions screening systems — list management, fuzzy-matching parameters, threshold tuning, filter logic testing, and name-matching algorithm review (ideally with experience across a variety of vendors)
Methodology, AI Enablement, and Cross-Training Expertise
- Scalable methodology ownership: build, maintain, and continuously improve a consistent, repeatable methodology across MRM, validation, TM desi