FIU Lead - Singapore

BitGo (NYSE: BTGO) is the digital asset infrastructure company delivering custody, wallets, staking, trading, financing, stablecoins, and settlement services from regulated cold storage. Since 2013, BitGo has focused on accelerating the transition of the financial system to a digital asset economy. BitGo maintains a global presence and multiple regulated entities, including BitGo Bank & Trust, National Association, the first federally chartered digital asset trust bank owned by a publicly traded company. Today, BitGo serves thousands of institutions, including many of the industry's top brands, financial institutions, exchanges, and platforms, and millions of investors worldwide. For more information, visit www.bitgo.com . About the Role We are building in-region Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) capability in Singapore. Reporting to the APAC Head of Compliance, and working closely with our global FIU team, the FIU Lead will own the transaction monitoring and blockchain investigations function for BitGo Singapore, our Major Payment Institution licensed entity. You will own first-line review of all TM alerts and progressively automate aspects of the programme, in partnership with the Engineering and Product teams. You will also lead complex blockchain investigations, validate our monitoring models, and write the policies and procedures that govern our transaction monitoring programme. This is a senior individual contributor role. We are looking for a technical expert who loves to be hands-on, and can operate with high-autonomy. You will be the in-house subject matter expert on transaction monitoring and on-chain analytics in APAC. Responsibilities Transaction monitoring and alert review • First-line alert review: Review, triage and disposition all TM alerts to defined SLAs. Document clear, auditable rationales and escalate suspicious activity to the Compliance Manager for STR consideration. • Automation: Design and implement automation to reduce manual alert handling, such as rules-based auto-closure, enrichment of alerts with on-chain and KYC data, and standardised case notes. Measure and report on efficiency and quality gains. • Quality and coverage: Own alert-handling procedures, QA sampling, SLAs and performance metrics, and provide regular reports to the Head of Compliance. • Rule and threshold tuning: Analyse alert volumes, false-positive rates and typologies. Recommend scenario and threshold changes to improve coverage and reduce noise. Blockchain investigations • Deep-dive investigations: Trace fund flows across chains and protocols, including mixers, bridges, DeFi, privacy-enhancing tools and cross-chain swaps. Identify exposure to sanctioned, illicit, darknet, scam, ransomware and high-risk counterparties. • Typology analysis: Identify emerging typologies and red flags, and turn them into monitoring scenarios and staff guidance. • Reporting: Produce clear investigation reports and case files that stand up to internal review and regulatory scrutiny. Support STR drafting and responses to law enforcement and regulatory requests. • Tooling: Make expert use of blockchain analytics platforms (e.g. TRM Labs, Chainalysis, Elliptic) and public explorers, and advise on vendor performance and coverage. Model validation and governance • Model validation: Independently validate TM scenarios, risk-scoring and analytics models, including data integrity, coverage, threshold calibration, back-testing and below-the-line testing. Document findings and track remediation. • Data and controls: Partner with Engineering and Data teams on data quality, lineage and alert-generation logic. Support periodic reviews of the TM programme. Policies, procedures and regulatory • Policies and procedures: Draft and maintain TM, blockchain