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With a set of market leading products in custody, settlement, clearing, liquidity access, and our position as a leading infrastructure provider in the industry, Copper is well placed to become a pillar of future digital and tokenised assets industry.
Role purpose
Your purpose at Copper will be to support regulatory and compliance changes related to cryptocurrencies, blockchain technologies, and digital asset services, applying your skills and knowledge to establish and maintain our market leadership and deliver on other objectives.
The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of financial regulations, Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) compliance, and emerging global standards for digital assets.
Key Responsibilities of the role
1. Work with internal stakeholders to monitor, interpret and document regulatory developments in digital assets, blockchain, and crypto across jurisdictions.
2. Work with legal, compliance, and product teams to align the business strategy with regulatory expectations.
3. Assist in ensuring compliance with AML/CFT, FATF Travel Rule, MiCA, SEC, FINMA, and other relevant frameworks.
4. Assist in training internal teams on emerging regulations, risks, and best practices.
5. Work with internal teams to implement and maintain regulatory policies and procedures for digital asset operations.
6. Support licensing and registration processes and developing and maintaining compliance frameworks, as needed.
7. Support compliance teams in using blockchain analytics tools for risk detection.
8. Conduct assessments related to digital asset transactions, market activities, and service providers.
9. Assist in preparing regulatory reports and filings for financial authorities.
10. Support internal audits and compliance reviews to ensure alignment with legal and regulatory standards.
11. Analyse and define business processes to identify gaps and operational improvements, considering opportunities and potential risks.
12. Gain agreement from senior management by clearly communicating the benefits of your recommendations across departments and help to address any uncertainty or concern.
13. Drive business decisions through relevant data analysis, producing written documentation to support your work, report on your findings and to present to stakeholders when necessary.
Your experience, skills and knowledge
1. Prior experience in regulatory compliance, financial services or crypto, and a strong interest in the impact of regulations on financial services.
2. Professional experience of business analysis within the financial services industry and particularly working within Regulatory and Compliance programmes.
3. Ability to interpret and apply complex regulations to a financial services business.
4. Strong collaboration skills and experience gathering and consolidating requirements from cross-functional groups.
5. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present to a range of audiences, motivate others and lead change.
6. Ability to work under pressure to meet project timeframes.
7. Bachelor’s or master’s degree in law, Finance, Business, Compliance, or a related field.
8. Advanced knowledge of project/product management platforms (JIRA & Confluence strongly preferred).
Desirable
1. Certifications such as CAMS (Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist), CRCM (Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager), or a Blockchain Compliance Certificate are a plus.
The benefits offered
1. Holidays: 27 days per annum paid holiday, in addition to bank holidays.
2. Years of Service Days: Employees are awarded one additional day of paid time off per year of service (up to three years).
3. Vitality Health:
1. Medical Insurance: Copper provides all employees with individual cover. Medical history is disregarded, and a 24/7 virtual GP is available (£100 excess per person per year).
2. Dental Insurance: Comprehensive dental cover for preventative, restorative and emergency treatment.
3. Audiology Cover: Employees can claim back up to 80% of costs, up to £300, for any hearing tests or hearing aids.
4. Optical Cover: £500 optical cover (through Vision Express) or 80% reimbursement up to £300 for any other optician.
5. Menopause Support: Unlimited support for those experiencing symptoms of the menopause, such as video consultations with a dedicated menopause practitioner.
6. Vitality services also include an additional £100 for minor diagnostic tests and private prescriptions, including home diagnostics.
7. Headspace - Copper's policy provides all employees with a free Headspace subscription. Headspace provides great resources to manage stress, improve sleep, meditate and enhance mindfulness.
8. Discounts and free benefits - the Vitality programme has been designed for preventative care to encourage members to improve their overall health and will reward those for doing so. Employees can access additional benefits such as 50% off running shoes, discounted health screenings, 50% off at Nuffield Health or Virgin Active gyms and much more.
4. Home Working Energy Support Scheme: to combat energy prices increasing globally, Copper will provide you, in addition to your salary, with a monthly top-up of £60 or £75 (subject to your energy supplier).
5. Pension up to 10% matched contribution to our company pension scheme via Smart Pensions.
6. Cycle to Work.
7. Life Insurance cover: Four times your base salary.
8. EAP: access unlimited mental health consultations and contact a 24/7 confidential helpline for emotional support.
9. Unmind.
10. Sponsored Learning and Development opportunities.
11. Regular company events and social activities.
In return for everything you can bring to Copper, we can offer you an exciting, challenging role in a fast-growing and dynamic business, with career opportunities and a welcoming working environment.
If you think you have everything we're looking for and more, then we'd love you to apply for the opportunity.
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