Your Mission

As a Senior Specialist, you will be an integral part of the crypto monitoring team, analysing transactions for potential risks such as fraud, money laundering, and terrorism financing. You will effectively use blockchain analytics tools and serve as a point of contact for all crypto-monitoring–related processes and procedures. Drawing on your expertise, you will help further develop the Crypto Monitoring framework and partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders. In this role, you will contribute significantly to the team’s ongoing growth and success.

What You’ll Do

• Crypto Monitoring:  Lead and continuously enhance on-chain monitoring activities by analysing complex transaction patterns, identifying emerging typologies, and translating findings into actionable risk insights and scalable detection strategies.
• Quality Assurance & Control Effectiveness: Execute and refine quality control processes and frameworks, ensuring adherence to AML/CFT standards, driving remediation of identified gaps, and implementing continuous improvement measures to strengthen operational resilience and compliance maturity.
• Policy Development and Maintenance: Keep up to date on typologies and regulatory developments while developing, reviewing and enhancing AML/CFT policies, procedures, and guidelines, ensuring effective implementation and consistent application across stakeholders.
• Reporting & Data Analysis: Analyse and consolidate key data to produce clear, risk-focused reporting that supports crypto monitoring and regulatory compliance.  Provide structured insights through dashboards, summaries, and ad-hoc analyses, and ensure timely escalation of unusual or high-risk activities to the MLROs and your line manager, enabling informed and effective decision-making
• Research and Assessment: Monitor regulatory developments and industry best practices in financial crime prevention and crypto assets, translating insights into structured risk assessments that enhance and continuously improve the organisation’s risk analysis framework.

Who You Are

• You possess an analytical mindset with the ability to navigate complex problem-solving scenarios with high attention to detail and sound judgement.
• You have a profound expertise in crypto assets and blockchain technology and are motivated to continuously enhance this knowledge in a fast-evolving and challenging environment
• You bring practical experience in compliance roles within the crypto, banking, or fintech sectors, with a solid understanding of AML regulations (e.g., FM-GwG) and the ability to translate regulatory requirements into effective and scalable operational processes.
• You possess excellent English skills, both written and verbal. Proficiency in German or additional European languages (e.g., French, Italian, Spanish) is a strong advantage, enabling you to clearly communicate complex compliance topics across diverse stakeholder groups.
• You manage multiple priorities effectively, delivering high-quality work independently while actively contributing to team initiatives. You are reliable, well-organised, and thrive in cross-functional collaboration.

Your Mission

As a Senior Compliance Specialist, you will play a central role in upholding and enforcing a high-standard regulatory compliance culture across the organisation. You will ensure that the company adheres to all applicable obligations under German and EU laws and regulations, with a particular focus on MiCAR, as well as relevant German frameworks and other supervisory requirements.

This includes supporting a strong second line of defence, operating independently from operational functions, and acting as a key point of contact for regulatory compliance and governance matters as well as performing controls according to the compliance control plan.

Your position is critical in ensuring that internal practices, policies, and controls not only meet but exceed regulatory expectations, supporting Bitpanda’s sustainable growth and reputation as a trusted operator in the crypto-asset and financial services space.

What you’ll do

• Compliance Framework & Oversight: Support the effectuation of a robust compliance monitoring programme aligned with MiCAR requirements and broader EU and national regulatory expectations.
• Regulatory & Governance Management: Act as a key contact for regulatory topics, ensuring accurate submissions, timely reporting, and continuous monitoring of relevant regulatory developments, with a strong focus on MiCAR and crypto-asset regulations.
• Monitoring, Breach & Risk Management: Identify and escalate compliance breaches, support corrective actions, and contribute to ongoing compliance risk assessments.
• Policy, Reporting & Training: Draft and maintain compliance policies, contribute to management and Board reporting on compliance risks, and support training initiatives to embed regulatory awareness across teams.
• Ethics & Culture: Promote integrity, transparency, and accountability, fostering a strong culture of ethical compliance throughout the organisation.

Who you are

• Qualified & Experienced: Degree in Law, Finance, Business, or a related field, with at least 2 years of experience in compliance within financial services, fintech, or crypto sectors.
• Regulatory Knowledge: Good understanding of MiCAR, EU regulatory frameworks, and crypto-asset compliance requirements is a strong plus.
• Independent & Reliable: Able to work independently, exercise sound judgement, and support senior stakeholders with well-founded compliance input.
• Analytical & Detail-Oriented: Strong analytical and documentation skills with high attention to detail.
• Clear Communicator: Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain complex regulatory topics clearly while maintaining confidentiality and integrity.
• Fluent in German and English 

Your mission

You will be part of the Third-Party Risk Management team. You support in implementing, maintaining and operating Bitpanda’s third-party risk management strategy and framework. As part of your remit, you will interact with various stakeholders within the Bitpanda Group and externally, for Bitpanda’s regulated German entity.

You will oversee and monitor third party risk in accordance with the regulatory requirements across multiple regulated entities within the Bitpanda Group. Responsibilities will include ensuring agreements, SLA's, KRIs, KPI’s and other metrics are in place to manage third-parties against the respective regulatory requirements. The role will also include reviewing and analysing documentation, preparation of reports, development of Management Information  and providing support on the assessment of new third party services.

The role will report to the VP Risk & Compliance and will be part of the Third Party Risk Management Team. You will work closely with internal stakeholders such as Risk, Legal, Compliance, Data Protection, and Technology. And interact with external stakeholders.

What you’ll do

• Continuous development of Bitpanda’s third-party risk management framework including, documentation, assessments, systems and tools implemented across the Group. 
• Provide ‘second-line’ review and challenge of third parties with both internal and external counterparties, helping implement SLAs, KRI’s and other monitoring.
• Ensure continuous updates to our third-party profile as well as registers in alignment with regulatory requirements (EBA, DORA).
• Ensure adherence of the Third–Party Risk lifecycle, rom Identification and assessment to monitoring and exit planning.
• Support in trainings, as appropriate, to business partners on Third Party Risk Management framework, policies, standards, processes, procedures and alignment with interconnected processes.

Who you are

• Experience and knowledge and understanding of Third Party Risk Management including DORA, MaRisk, EBA Outsourcing, PRA SS2/21 and other regulatory equivalents. 
• Experience in operating third party risk frameworks.
• Experience in managing third parties over the whole lifecylce, developing Service Level Agreements (SLA) aligned with regulatory guidelines and industry best practices.
• Excellent communication in German and English, proven ability to effectively interact with team members, clients and peers, earning their trust and establishing credibility
• Minimum of 4+ years focused expertise in Third Party Risk and managing Outsourcing Services.