BitGo is the leader in digital asset financial services, providing institutional investors with liquidity, custody, and security solutions. Founded in 2013, BitGo pioneered the multi-signature wallet and is the first digital asset company to focus exclusively on serving institutional clients. Active in both centralized and decentralized finance, BitGo offers market leading trading, lending, and borrowing services through its prime brokerage services and acts as the custodian for WBTC, the leading global stablecoin for Bitcoin. In 2020, BitGo launched BitGo Portfolio and Tax, providing clients with a full-stack solution for digital assets. In 2018, it launched BitGo Trust Company, the first qualified custodian purpose-built for storing digital assets. BitGo processes approximately 20% of all global Bitcoin transactions, and supports over 600 coins and tokens. BitGo provides the security and operational backbone for more than 1500 institutional clients in 50 countries, including many regulated entities and the world’s top cryptocurrency exchanges and platforms. BitGo is backed by Goldman Sachs, Craft Ventures, Digital Currency Group, DRW, Galaxy Digital Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, and Valor Equity Partners.
As an Onboarding Associate, you will be responsible for reviewing account openings, conducting due diligence checks, and providing advice to various business functions. Your main objective will be to ensure compliance with internal policies and AML/KYC requirements, while also identifying opportunities for onboarding process improvement to mitigate compliance risks.
The role will support our APAC onboarding requirements and reports to the CEO/Director of Operations.
Responsibilities
- Conducting client due diligence (CDD) and enhanced due diligence (ECDD) in accordance with internal policies, procedures and regulatory guidelines
- Provide high-quality customer service by owning, monitoring, and improving customer service, handling customer inquiries, managing communications with customers throughout the entire onboarding process;
- Involvement in account acceptance/reviews, account opening procedures, distribution, and closing account procedures;
- Work closely with internal teams to ensure a cohesive approach to customer onboarding and account administration;
- Participate in internal and external training programs related to AML/CFT and other subjects that may form part of the day to day work requirements
- Handle ad hoc tasks assigned by the supervisor.
Skills and Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree and an advanced degree or certification
- 2-3 years of experience in the financial services sector or handling end-to-end onboarding of new/existing customer accounts; knowledge and experience in collection of Know Your Customer (“KYC”) information and managing the customer onboarding would be an advantage.
- Highly effective verbal and written communications
- Strong customer service skills
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Highly organized with work tools like emails, spreadsheets, databases
- Extremely high sense of urgency when servicing external and internal clients
- Analytical skills, positive attitude, listening and problem-solving skills
Why Join BitGo?
Disrupting an industry takes vision, innovation, passion, technical chops, drive to deliver, collaboration, and execution. Join a team of great people who strive for excellence and personify our corporate values of ownership, craftsmanship, and open communication. We are looking for new colleagues who bring innovative ways of thinking and problem solving, and who want risks to be part of the team that changes the world’s financial markets.
Here are some of the benefits of working at BitGo:
- Competitive base salary, bonus, and stock options
- Computer equipment to suit your needs
- Generous paid time off
- Great colleagues and inspiring startup environment
