Digital Assets Screening Manager (1LOD)

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Job Overview

Are you looking for a career move that will put you at the heart of a global financial institution? Then bring your skills to Citi.

By Joining Citi, you will become part of a global organization whose mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress.

As Citi launches its pioneering digital assets custody and settlement capabilities, we are establishing a robust First-Line-of-Defense (1LOD) Financial Crime Operations function. Sitting within Citi’s Investor Services Operations division, this newly created role is responsible for leading the operational execution of front-line financial crime controls.

The Digital Assets Screening Manager (1LOD) will oversee day-to-day screening operations, on-chain transaction reviews, and the development of the 1LOD Target Operating Model (TOM). This role combines blockchain innovation with rigorous banking controls, ensuring digital asset transactions are screened, triaged, and investigated to the highest standards of accuracy and regulatory compliance.

Unlike traditional compliance oversight roles, this position sits directly within business operations (1LOD), owning front-line risk, executing real-time controls, and leading the team that serves as Citi's first line of defense against financial crime in the digital asset ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee the end-to-end execution of real-time financial crime screening across all digital asset transactions, ensuring timely alert triage, escalation, and resolution within agreed SLAs while maintaining strong operational discipline and backlog management.
• Make risk-based, timely, and well-documented decisions on client digital asset wallets and transaction activity, determining appropriate investigation outcomes and escalation actions.
• Lead complex investigations involving both traditional fiat and digital asset transactions across multiple blockchains, leveraging advanced blockchain analytics and on-chain intelligence to assess transaction risk, source of funds, and exposure to sanctioned entities, mixers, chain-hopping, darknet markets, and other illicit activity.
• Supervise the preparation of high-quality investigative narratives and escalation packages, ensuring that cases meeting established criteria are referred promptly to 2LOD Financial Crime Compliance for review and determination of regulatory reporting obligations.
• As the product and client base scale, define, document, and continuously enhance the 1LOD Target Operating Model (TOM) for digital assets screening and investigations, implementing scalable workflows, staffing models, escalation frameworks, and controls aligned with Citi’s three-lines-of-defense framework.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of 1LOD policies, standard operating procedures, training materials, and desktop guides supporting digital asset AML and financial crime control activities.
• Recruit, lead, and develop a high-performing team of screening analysts and investigators, setting clear performance expectations and fostering a culture of accountability, accuracy, and digital asset subject matter expertise.
• Act as the primary 1LOD liaison and owner of the controls framework, partnering closely with Financial Crime Compliance, Legal, Risk, Technology, and Product teams to optimize screening and monitoring tools, drive workflow automation and vendor integrations, and provide key risk metrics, operational performance updates, and trend analysis to senior management and governance forums.

Qualifications & Experience:

• 8+ years of relevant financial crime compliance, screening, or investigations experience within a large/complex financial institution, digital assets fintech, law firm, or regulatory body.
• 3+ years of direct, hands-on experience running AML investigations and screening specifically for digital assets and cryptocurrency cases.
• Master’s degree.
• Proven track record of managing, coaching, and developing teams of financial operations or screening analysts.
• Deep working understanding of blockchain mechanics, cryptocurrency transactions, wallet structures, DeFi protocols, and on-chain risk behaviors (e.g., mixer usage, chain-hopping, darknet exposure).
• Hands-on proficiency with industry-standard blockchain analytics platforms such as Chainalysis (Reactor/KYT), TRM Labs, Elliptic, combined with a solid understanding of financial markets, banking operations, and traditional payment rails (wire, ACH, check) supporting hybrid fiat-to-crypto investigations.
• Understanding of BSA/AML concepts, the USA PATRIOT Act, FinCEN regulations, OFAC sanctions compliance, MiCA regulations, and broader financial crime risk management principles.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills with a detail-oriented approach to investigations, due diligence, case documentation, and alert dispositioning; outstanding written and verbal communication skills; ability to make and defend risk-based decisions in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.
• CAMS (Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist), CFE (Certified Fraud Examiner), or equivalent professional certification will be considered an advantage.

By joining Citi Solutions Center Poland, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (currently up to 2 days working at home per week), but also (potentially, subject to final offer) receive a competitive base salary and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits which can include:

• Employer paid Defined Contribution Pension Plan contribution of 6% of employee’s pensionable earnings (PPE Program)
• Employer paid Private Medical Care Package for employees and Private Medical Care Packages for certain family members available at preferential rates
• Employer paid Life Insurance Program for employees and Life Insurance for certain family members available at preferential rates
• Employee Assistance Program financed by Employer
• Paid Parental Leave Program (maternity and paternity leave; statutory and 2 weeks additional paid paternity leave)
• Sport Card for employees subsidised via Social Benefits Fund and Sport Cards for certain family members available at preferential rates
• Additional benefits from Company’s Social Benefit Fund, in particular: Holidays Allowance, support for sport and cultural activities, team building events.
• Additional day off for volunteering
• Cafeteria/ flex benefit – a company benefits system which enables employees to select and purchase benefits offered by a provider and available for employees on the platform.
• Opportunity to receive an annual discretionary incentive award
• Special offers and discounts for employees
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Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay, and empowered to thrive. 

Sounds like Citi has everything you need? Then apply to discover the true extent of your capabilities.

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