Financial Crime Manager

Location: Dublin Workplace: hybrid About us Aave Labs began with a simple question: how do we make financial services like borrowing, saving, and earning more accessible globally?   We built the Aave Protocol, now the world’s largest and most trusted onchain lending market, connecting decentralized finance with individuals, traditional finance, and fintech.   Today, we build trusted, high-quality products that expand access to lending, credit, and savings globally Our culture We build trusted products that help people access and discover economic opportunities.   We hold a high bar for quality and craftsmanship. No detail is too small. Trust depends on it.   We’re a global team building products people can actually use, turning complex technology into something simple and reliable.   We stay aligned, move quickly, and think long term, while keeping teams lean and focused on impact.   About the role   We’re looking for a VP, Compliance to lead our compliance function across Aave Labs and provide strategic compliance leadership across our global business, spanning both our regulated entities and the wider unregulated parts of the Group. This is a senior leadership role with broad responsibility across the Group, partnering closely with executive leadership, Legal, Product, Engineering, Operations, Finance and other teams to ensure we continue to grow and innovate within a strong and scalable compliance framework. The role will provide Group-wide oversight of compliance and regulatory risk, while recognising that the nature and intensity of regulatory obligations will differ across our businesses, products and entities. You’ll oversee compliance across our products, entities and markets, including regulated parts of the business, while acting as a trusted advisor to senior leadership and relevant Boards. You’ll be expected to combine deep regulatory expertise with strong commercial judgement, helping the business navigate complex questions, launch new products, enter new markets and manage regulatory risk without losing sight of how the business operates This is a role for someone comfortable moving between strategy and execution, from advising leadership on emerging regulatory issues, and assessing where regulatory boundaries apply across new and existing activities, to working directly with teams to solve complex compliance challenges. Given the role’s responsibilities across our regulated businesses, you’ll also be expected to hold relevant individual regulatory roles and approvals. How you can make an impact: Oversee the day-to-day execution of financial crime controls, including customer due diligence, sanctions and adverse media screening, transaction monitoring, investigations and escalations Conduct and oversee blockchain analytics, wallet screening and investigations involving on-chain activity, including assessing direct and indirect exposure to illicit activity, sanctioned entities and other financial crime typologies Identify, investigate and respond to suspected fraud, including account takeover, identity fraud, payment fraud and other emerging typologies Identify and implement opportunities to enhance financial crime controls, processes and systems through automation, technology and data-driven solutions, improving operational efficiency while maintaining effective risk management Develop and maintain quality assurance processes to assess the effectiveness and consistency of financial crime operations, identify control deficiencies and drive timely remediation Support the MLRO/BSAO with suspicious activity reporting obligations, regulatory enquiries and financial crime-related audits, ensuring appropriate documentation and recordkeeping Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Operations and Customer Support teams to ensure financial crime risks are appropriately identified and mitigated throughout the customer lifecycle Provide guidance, oversight and mentorship to Financial Crime and Support analysts, ensuring consistent decision-making, effective workload management and timely resolution of complex investigations Strong understanding of financial crime risks associated with payment services, cryptoassets, decentralised finance (DeFi), self-hosted wallets and blockchain-based transactions Strong technical aptitude and experience leveraging data analytics, automation and emerging technologies to enhance financial crime detection, investigations and operational efficiency Familiarity with financial crime regulatory frameworks across multiple jurisdictions, particularly the UK, EU and US, including applicable AML/CTF, sanctions and cryptoasset regulatory requirements Let's connect if: Bachelor's degree in business, finance, law, or a related field At least 7 years of relevant experience in a risk or compliance role within a financial services organisation, consultancy firm, or regulator. Experience of both payments and cryptoassets is highly preferred Deep knowledge of relevant financial crime regulations and best practices, as well as familiarity with relevant industry standards and guidelines Experience conducting financial crime risk assessments and developing policies, procedures, and controls Experience with compliance-related tools, including for customer screening purposes, transaction monitoring, blockchain analytics, etc. Excellent analytical and communication skills, with the ability to identify and communicate complex information to both technical and non-technical audiences Ability to work independently and collaboratively, as well as to manage multiple priorities and deadlines Haven’t quite met all the criteria? Let’s not miss out on the chance to speak. Whilst you might not meet every single requirement, you might bring other, more exciting skills to the companies!   Equal opportunities statement:   Aave Labs celebrates diversity and views each and every team member as a separate individual with their own unique identity. No matter your race, religion, gender, ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation or even the wallet you use, we welcome you at Aave Labs. As an equal opportunities employer, we take accountability and believe in everyone's potential to build, create and inspire changes. With a mission to build a diverse workforce, we are proud to foster a working environment in which everyone can feel safe and valued for who they are.