Compliance Operations Lead

**This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Compliance Operations Lead based in India.** We are seeking an experienced compliance operations leader to build and scale the operational foundation of a growing compliance function. This role focuses on designing efficient workflows, improving review processes, and ensuring strong execution across critical financial crime operations. You will lead teams responsible for KYB, KYC, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, blockchain analytics reviews, and escalations. The position combines hands-on operational leadership with strategic process improvement in a fast-paced, technology-driven environment. You will collaborate closely with Compliance, Legal, Product, Engineering, Data, and Operations teams to create scalable solutions. This is an opportunity to shape compliance capabilities that support global growth while maintaining strong risk controls. ### Accountabilities: The Compliance Operations Lead will own the execution model for compliance workflows, ensuring operational excellence, quality, and scalability across global markets. This role requires a balance of team leadership, process optimization, tooling improvements, and cross-functional collaboration. - Lead and develop compliance operations teams managing KYB, KYC, transaction monitoring, sanctions, blockchain analytics, customer risk reviews, and case management workflows. - Own daily operational processes, including analyst reviews, escalations, quality assurance, backlog management, and case resolution. - Establish team standards around productivity, review quality, documentation, decision-making, and escalation procedures. - Design and improve operational playbooks, review procedures, checklists, and control frameworks aligned with compliance requirements. - Partner with Compliance and Legal teams to translate regulatory expectations into practical workflows and execution standards. - Build quality assurance programs to identify gaps, improve consistency, and strengthen operational controls. - Oversee compliance tooling, case management systems, monitoring platforms, dashboards, and workflow improvements. - Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Data, and Operations teams to automate repetitive processes while maintaining appropriate oversight. - Monitor transaction alerts, sanctions cases, customer risk events, and suspicious activity escalations to ensure timely resolution. - Prepare operational reporting on volumes, SLAs, quality metrics, risks, trends, and team performance. - Support audits, regulatory reviews, partner assessments, and internal compliance initiatives through accurate documentation and reporting. - Coach, mentor, and scale compliance professionals while fostering a strong culture of accountability and continuous improvement. ## **Requirements:** The ideal candidate is a seasoned compliance operations professional with extensive experience in financial crime prevention, operational leadership, and scaling compliance functions within regulated or high-growth environments. - 15+ years of experience in compliance operations, AML, financial crime operations, KYC, KYB, sanctions, transaction monitoring, or related fields. - Proven experience leading teams, managing managers, and building operational functions within fintech, payments, banking, crypto, trading, or financial services environments. - Strong understanding of AML processes, sanctions screening, customer risk reviews, suspicious activity escalation, and compliance controls. - Experience creating operational standards, review procedures, QA frameworks, reporting structures, and control processes. - Ability to collaborate effectively with second-line Compliance and Legal teams while owning operational execution. - Hands-on experience with case management platforms, transaction monitoring tools, KYC/KYB solutions, sanctions screening systems, or blockcha…