Senior Director

K2 Integrity is seeking an experienced compliance professional with deep subject matter expertise in transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, and blockchain analytics program design (rule setting, governance, pre/post implementation testing) and model risk management/ validation. Sitting within FCRM Advisory, this individual will serve as the practice’s go-to subject-matter expert and project execution lead across several cross-functional areas (traditional finance, fintech, crypto verticals). This individual will be responsible for designing and optimizing detection rules, validating model performance, documenting methodologies, and ensuring compliance with applicable regulatory requirements, including the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) Part 504 annual certification requirements and other applicable U.S. AML/BSA, OFAC, FinCEN, FFIEC, and industry best practices. This is a rare seat for a practitioner who is genuinely bilingual across traditional finance (tradfi) and crypto. You will validate the analytics that banks, stablecoin issuers, and payments firms rely on to detect financial crime — from Actimize and Oracle Mantas to Chainalysis, TRM Labs, and Elliptic — and translate a fragmented set of client needs into a consistent, defensible, and scalable methodology that the firm can deploy at speed and at margin. What sets this role apart: we are looking for someone who can do both tradfi and crypto — not one or the other. The ideal hire pairs deep, hand