Binance - Sanctions Investigations Team Lead

• Investigation leadership and quality • Own end-to-end investigation quality for the team: case scoping, evidence standards, narrative quality, disposition rationale, and closure documentation • Act as escalation point and reviewer for complex, high-value, or politically exposed matters; make or endorse disposition recommendations • Ensure every disposition is defensible against applicable sanctions regimes and internal standards, and is documented to withstand regulatory, audit, and independent review • Operational performance • Manage intake, triage, and ageing across the team's queue; ensure matters are prioritised by risk and progressed within SLAs • Own team capacity planning: allocation, coverage across time zones, and surge handling • Track and report team throughput, cycle time, QA outcomes, and escalation volumes to senior management and governance forums • Identify and drive process improvements that reduce false positives and manual effort without weakening controls • Regulatory and stakeholder engagement • Represent the team in interactions with regulators, external auditors, and independent reviewers; own response quality and evidence packs • Partner with Sanctions Advisory on interpretive questions and novel typologies, and with Technology on screening rule tuning, model changes, and tooling • Escalate material or time-sensitive exposure to Financial Crime Compliance leadership and, where required, to the business and Legal • Coordinate with law enforcement, industry bodies, and peer institutions where appropriate and approved • Team and capability • Team and capability • Set clear performance expectations; manage, coach, and develop investigators, including career progression and succession coverage • Build sanctions and CTF technical depth within the team: typologies, evasion techniques, digital-asset and cross-border payment risks • Partner with Compliance Training on mandatory and role-specific training; ensure the team's knowledge stays current with evolving regimes and designations • Drive adoption of investigative tooling and AI-assisted workflows, including validating output quality before scaling • Governance and control • Maintain team SOP, investigation playbooks, and escalation protocols; keep them current and aligned to policy • Ensure records, retention, and confidentiality standards are met, including for the most sensitive matters • Support internal audit, risk assessment, and control-testing exercises; own remediation of team-level findings