Senior Compliance Analyst (India)
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As a Senior Compliance Analyst at Bitget, you oversee compliance and regulatory functions for the world's largest Universal Exchange, serving over 125 million users across crypto tokens, tokenized stocks, ETFs, commodities, FX, and precious metals. You lead investigations into suspicious activity, manage regulatory requests, and work to strengthen the platform's AML/CFT controls in line with Indian regulations and global standards.
What you'll do
- Oversee customer screening against applicable sanctions lists, PEP databases, adverse media and other relevant watchlists.
- Manage responses to requests from law enforcement agencies, FIU-IND and other competent authorities, including information requests, notices and account-related directions.
- Lead the investigation of transaction monitoring alerts and virtual digital asset transactions and relevant wallet exposure alerts, document findings and take appropriate action in line with internal policies and regulatory requirements.
- Conduct blockchain investigations using analytics tools such as Chainalysis, Elliptic and TRM to trace fund flows, assess wallet exposure and investigate links to sanctioned entities, illicit activity, stolen funds, fraud, mixers and darknet services.
- Assess suspicious activity, determine appropriate escalation and reporting, and prepare high-quality Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs) with clear, evidence-based narratives.
- Ensure timely and accurate filing of STRs and other applicable regulatory reports in accordance with PMLA, the PML Rules and FIU-IND requirements.
- Work with Product, Engineering, Data and Operations teams to strengthen monitoring capabilities, improve investigative workflows and address identified control gaps.
- Prepare management updates and periodic compliance reports covering key risks, suspicious activity trends and control effectiveness.
What you bring
- Expert knowledge in blockchain analytics and virtual digital asset compliance (mandatory).
- 5-6 years of overall compliance experience, with at least 2-3 years in the virtual digital asset sector.
- Prior experience in transaction monitoring, suspicious transaction investigations and STR preparation and filing with FIU-IND or another regulator.
- Strong knowledge of PMLA, FIU-IND's AML/CFT requirements for VDASPs, FATF Recommendations relevant to VDASPs and other global regulatory guidelines.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to prepare clear investigation reports, regulatory responses and management updates.
- Experience working with product and engineering teams for implementation and control testing of KYC onboarding flows, transaction monitoring rules and Travel Rule.
- Prior experience in handling law enforcement requests.
Nice to have
- Additional certifications such as CAMS, CCAS or CFE.
- Experience with virtual asset regulatory frameworks outside India.
What we offer
- Competitive salaries and benefits.
About Bitget
Bitget is the world's largest Universal Exchange, serving over 125 million users with access to over 2M crypto tokens, 100+ tokenized stocks, ETFs, commodities, FX and precious metals. The platform leads in the tokenized TradFi market with the lowest fees and highest liquidity across 150 regions, and is backed by strategic partnerships with LALIGA and MotoGP.
Context for this role
From the live jobs we track on CryptoJobsHQ, updated daily.
Bitget has 13 open roles on CryptoJobsHQ: 4 in Legal & Compliance, 3 in Business Development and 3 in Marketing. 8% are fully remote, most of the rest in Hong Kong and the US. 2 were posted in the last 7 days.
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