Financial Crimes Compliance Specialist

Responsibilities

About the Team:
Our Global Legal Compliance team provides key support for all of ByteDance's and TikTok’s innovative initiatives, state-of-the-art products, and integrated platforms servicing our global markets. We help our technological and business teams enable their vision by providing integrated legal and compliance guidance and support. The ByteDance and TikTok team are growing fast and is seeking a highly experienced, bright, and capable legal/compliance specialist to join us.

Responsibilities:
- Help drive and support global financial crimes compliance, risk identification, and compliance strategy as a key member of the AML/Sanctions team.
- Conduct or assist in periodic risk assessments to identify gaps and to improve the compliance programs, processes, and procedures.
- Ensure coordination with regional compliance teams to adopt regional programs or guidelines, if needed.
- Lead and support innovative efforts that integrate data analytics into the AML/sanctions compliance program.
- Collaborate with internal tech teams to identify, process, and organize a variety of compliance data sets.
- Transform data and metrics into compliance data visualizations for review and consumption of target audiences; develop metrics for a compliance dashboard; analyze and document trends in compliance activities and relevant data to measure effectiveness of the compliance programs. Expand data analysis to compliance training data.
- Assist with the coordination of regional compliance investigations to ensure appropriate data management, consistent investigative approach, remediation, and disciplinary action matrix.
- Work collaboratively with regional compliance teams, compliance centers of excellence (COEs), regional legal teams, Internal Audit, cross-functional stakeholders, and business units in the development and advancement of the compliance program mission.
- Manage and participate in cross-functional compliance projects, offering data expertise to enhance ByteDance's multiple compliance frameworks.
- Provide ad hoc support and guidance to other teams as needed, ensuring continued adherence to AML, sanctions and ABAC laws and internal policies.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
-Bachelor's degree in a related field.
-Strong understanding and practical application of financial crime regulations (AML, sanctions, anti-bribery/corruption), with experience handling complex compliance issues and investigations, including reviewing large data sets and escalating suspicious activities.
-Proficient in analyzing compliance data, developing dashboards, and translating insights into actionable recommendations using tools like SQL, Tableau, and Power BI.
-Excellent project management skills, experienced in leading or supporting cross-functional initiatives across multiple regions or business units.
-Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
-Willingness to engage in global meetings across time zones and travel as necessary.
-Possesses the highest ethical standards, a positive attitude, and a willingness to learn and implement new skills.

Preferred Qualifications:
-Works effectively in a fast-paced environment, showing flexibility, teamwork, and adaptability to meet client needs, while anticipating and responding to urgent situations.
-Manages heavy workloads and meets critical deadlines with minimal supervision.
-Proactively identifies and resolves problems, taking the lead on issues and recommending process improvements.
-Possesses an in-depth understanding of client business, industry, and organization, supporting the delivery of products, services, and initiatives.
-Capable of redirecting issues to appropriate resources.
-Demonstrates creativity in finding solutions and uses sound judgment.
-Able to influence and enlist support, with multilingual capabilities being a strong plus.

Job Information

【For Pay Transparency】 Compensation Description (Annually) - Washington, DC

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is 115200 - 216600 annually.​

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.​

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).​

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.​

Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut and Pico as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.​

Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we work towards every day.​

As ByteDancers, we strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our Company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.​

Diversity & Inclusion​

ByteDance is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.​

ByteDance is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request​