Senior Compliance Officer and MLRO of Zero Hash Europe at Zero Hash

About the Role

Zero Hash is a trailblazing company that facilitates the storage of digital assets, on and off-chain settlement, and verifiable proof of assets for transactions. In the United States, Zero Hash benefits from several licenses including Money Service Business as well as a regulated Money Transmitter that can operate in more than 45 states and a virtual currency license from NYDFS. Zero Hash has begun an international expansion, including Australia, Europe, Latin America and other regions. We are seeking a smart, driven individual with experience in compliance and working with financial regulators in the European Union, particularly the Netherlands, to manage compliance and act as MLRO for our Dutch entity (currently seeking MiCAR license with the AFM).

While this is a fully remote role, the successful candidate must be based in the Netherlands.

Responsibilities

• Working with our EU Compliance Lead to, design, implement, and manage compliance policies and procedures covering customer onboarding and ongoing compliance processes, including anti-money laundering (AML) and sanctions, in conformity with regulatory requirements
• Manage the Compliance deliverables for ZHEU, including oversight of outsourced services
• Maintain an understanding of EU regulations applicable to crypto asset services providers (especially MiCAR and AML regulatory updates)
• Support regulatory affairs within the region, including FIU
• Manage regional regulatory audit responses and regulatory interactions

Requirements

• 7-14 years of Compliance experience, including AML, sanctions and financial crimes compliance, within a financial services company or Fintech startup
• Demonstrated ability to build and oversee complex programs in a dynamic growth-minded environment
• Experience working with regional financial regulators, to include audit management
• University degree with strong academic credentials, legal/law degree preferred but not required
• Independent, hardworking and driven with experience accomplishing tasks within a delegated environment
• Strong time management skills and ability to execute tasks within tight deadlines
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills necessary to communicate effectively with regulators and work effectively with colleagues across regions and business units
• Strong familiarity with Google Suite and Microsoft Suite products
• Dutch, Spanish, French or Italian language ability preferred
• Crypto experience a plus

Benefits Offered

We believe a happy, motivated, and healthy team is the best way to succeed. We offer the following benefits:

• Chance to earn equity
• Paid Maternity & Paternity leave (after 6 months)
• WeWork Membership
• WFH Yearly Stipend
• L&D Stipend (after 6 months)

About Zero Hash

Zero Hash is a B2B embedded infrastructure platform that allows any platform to integrate digital assets natively into their own customer experience quickly and easily (a matter of API endpoints). We power neo-banks, broker-dealers, and payment groups to offer digital asset trading and custody, crypto-backed rewards and round-ups programs as well as yield through staking and DeFi and NFTs.

Our thesis is very simple: every financial services firm will offer digital assets within the next 2 years and will do so through platforms such as Zero Hash. Zero Hash is defining the new FinTech vertical of digital-assets-as-a-service.

Clients include MoneyLion, Wirex, Deserve, MoonPay, tastytrade. Backed by Point 72 Ventures, NYCA, Bain Capital, tastytrade.

The Zero Hash Culture

All Zero Hash employees are guided by the following characteristics and core principles:

• Independence/Ownership - An ability to work autonomously. Join Zero Hash, pitch ideas, and shape the work you do.
• Passion - We are innovating quickly and challenging the status quo. We want you to think big, be creative and make a difference every day.
• Collaborative - A good attitude and respect for others. We’re teammates, not co-workers. Everything we do is a shared success and equally a shared failure - we talk in terms of
• “we” not “me”.
• Initiative - An ability and passion for learning and asking questions. We will champion you, challenge you and push you to achieve your best - and we expect you to do the same.
• Empathy - An ability to listen, respect, and understand your co- workers, customers, and everyone you interact with no matter how different they are to you.
• Adaptability - An ability to respond quickly. We are in a fast-paced industry and so we expect you to be creative when solving a new problem and comfortable under pressure.
• Transparency - We believe that transparency is critical to empowering everyone to make the best decisions, both the company to its people and vice versa.
• Integrity - Integrity creates trust. As both an organization collectively and as individuals, it is our most valuable asset.