Alixpartners
Investigations, Compliance & Privacy Director
Chicago · Director
Sponsorship not specified$180k-$400kDetected 21 days ago
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Sponsors this role90
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70
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About the role
- By understanding, respecting, and honoring the needs of our employees, clients, and communities, AlixPartners actively promotes an inclusive environment.
- We strongly believe in the value that diversity brings to our experiences and are committed to the perpetual enhancements of initiatives, policies, and practices.
- We hold ourselves accountable by providing the space for authenticity, growth, and equity for everyone.
Responsibilities
- Lead BSA/AML, OFAC, and FCPA risk assessments and compliance program implementations for financial institutions, fintech companies, and digital-asset businesses
- develop and validate corrective-action plans under regulatory agreements.
- Lead complex domestic and cross-border investigations involving financial fraud, securities misconduct, insider trading, market manipulation, money laundering, asset misappropriation, corruption, identity theft, account takeover, ACH fraud, digital-asset fraud, and other forms of platform or enterprise abuse.
- Apply blockchain analytics, transaction tracing, trading analysis, digital forensics, open-source intelligence (OSINT), and large-dataset analysis to identify patterns, trace funds, assess exposure, and support defensible conclusions.
- Lead multidisciplinary teams of investigators, forensic accountants, data analysts, cybersecurity specialists, and subject-matter experts
- coach team members, review work product, and deliver performance evaluations.
- Represent AlixPartners at industry events and contribute to practice development through thought leadership, white papers, CLE presentations, relationship building, and identification of new engagement opportunities.
- Manage multiple workstreams, budgets, deadlines, and client expectations in fast-moving and sensitive matters requiring discretion and rapid response.
- Lead BSA/AML, OFAC, and FCPA risk assessments and compliance program implementations for financial institutions, fintech companies, and digital-asset businesses; develop and validate corrective-action plans under regulatory agreements.
- Lead multidisciplinary teams of investigators, forensic accountants, data analysts, cybersecurity specialists, and subject-matter experts; coach team members, review work product, and deliver performance evaluations.
Requirements
- Experience working with cryptocurrency.
- Experience working with financial institutions, capital-markets organizations, fintech or digital-asset businesses, regulators, prosecutors, or law-enforcement agencies.
- Ability to understand technical investigative evidence and explain complex cyber, trading, transaction, or blockchain findings clearly to non-technical executives and clients.
- experience authoring expert reports, affidavits, and litigation-ready exhibits.
- experience with SQL, blockchain forensics platforms, link-analysis tools, case-management systems, Excel, Power BI, Tableau, Python, or comparable tools.
Nice to have
- Prior leadership experience in risk and compliance roles within a financial institution.
- Advanced degree such as an MBA.
- Prior experience serving as an expert witness
- Experience conducting regulatory monitorships, OCC or other agency formal agreement remediation, and engagement with supervisory or enforcement personnel.
- Recognized training or certifications in incident response, cybersecurity, digital forensics, blockchain investigations, AML, fraud examination, or related disciplines.
- Established credibility and relationships across the financial-crime, cyber, digital-asset, regulatory, or law-enforcement communities
- demonstrated thought leadership through publications, speaking, or industry board participation.
- Consulting or advisory experience, including client development, engagement management, proposal preparation, and cross-selling of integrated service lines.
Compensation
- The salary range for this role takes into account a number of factors and is between $180,000 - $400,000 with potential eligibility for annual discretionary bonus.
Benefits
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (accounting, finance, economics, or related discipline), or an equivalent combination of education, professional training, and substantial investigative experience.
- Collaborative, entrepreneurial approach; ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team; willingness to travel domestically or internationally based on client needs.
Company info
- At AlixPartners, we solve the most complex and critical challenges by moving quickly from analysis to action when it really matters; creating value that has a lasting impact on companies, their people, and the communities they serve.
- Travel is part of this position, but the frequency may vary based on client, team, and individual circumstances.
- Prior to extending any offers for our New York office, we will verify your education and employment history as part of our recruiting process.
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