Zodia Custody is the leading institution-first digital asset custodian by Standard Chartered, in association with Northern Trust and SBI Holdings.
We enable institutional investors around the globe to realise the full potential of the digital asset future – simply, safely, and without compromise.
Through the combination of leading technology, custody, governance and compliance, Zodia Custody satisfies the complex needs of institutional investors.

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Zodia Custody is a bank-backed digital asset custodian that empowers global institutions to navigate the digital asset landscape safely and without compromise. It offers institution-ready custody solutions for digital assets, including secure cold storage, trading, and settlement services, and a growing ecosystem of trusted services accessible from Zodia Custody wallets. The company is trusted by leading financial institutions and provides services such as staking, tokenization, and enhanced platform optionality. Zodia Custody is committed to ensuring the highest standards of regulatory compliance, conducting crypto asset assessments, and maintaining security and governance with industry certifications. Its services are exclusively available to institutional investors, including asset managers, banks, hedge funds, and private wealth managers.

Zodia Custody is the leading institution-first digital asset custodian by Standard Chartered, in association with Northern Trust and SBI Holdings. We enable institutional investors around the globe to realise the full potential of the digital asset future – simply, safely, and without compromise. Through the combination of leading technology, custody, governance and compliance, Zodia Custody satisfies the complex needs of institutional investors. 

- Lead the Financial Crime Prevention team and the Onboarding Team, including guidance, development and rewards. These teams have responsibility for (1) Risk Rating prospective and existing clients and other relationships (2) Performing risk-based due diligence at onboarding and an ongoing basis (3) investigating and resolving Sanctions, PEP and Adverse Media Alerts (4) Investigating and resolving post-facto Transaction Monitoring alerts (5) Investigating and resolving in the first instance potential suspicious activity reported through other functions (6) Conducting on-chain investigations
- Provides 1LoD approval for all client and non-client relationships entered into by Zodia Custody, including assessing the level of financial crime risk posed by the relationship and imposing conditions or additional mitigants as required to manage risk
- Overseeing the execution of quality control (maker, checker) and quality assurance (CST) in the operations team to ensure effective implementation and execution of risk management controls aligned with Zodia Custody’s policies and standards with a significant focus on financial crime controls.
- Overseeing the execution of the defined governance in the operations team, including management information and reporting.
- Works with Sales and Relationship Managers to support Zodia Custody offering services to clients in a way that grows the business while managing Zodia Custody’s risk appetite and need to be compliant with regulatory obligations
- Oversees the operational risk management strategy, identifying areas of future regulatory change and potential efficiency to maintain ongoing effectiveness of the financial crime prevention function. Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
- Owns or co-owns key vendor relationships including the KYC Management Tool (KYCP) and Screening (LSEG Worldcheck) and Transaction Monitoring (Solidus)
- Provision of support to other Zodia Custody jurisdictions as part of existing operations, as well as supporting in Zodia’s expansion and set-up into other markets as part of joint-ventures or partnerships. This will include supporting and advising on the design and implementation of processes and controls, including the implementation of local changes to operational risk processes to account for local regulatory/policy deviations
- Represents Operations on key Risk Committees including the Executive Risk Committee, Subsidiary Risk Committee and Risk and Conflicts Committee
- Supports the Director of Operations and the Chief Operating Officer as required on broader tactical and strategic operational risk management activities as required
- Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, regulatory and business conduct and a strong culture of risk awareness and accountability for controls across the operations team.

Global Financial Crime Lead, Senior Manager

Global Financial Crime Lead at Zodia Custody managing financial crime compliance and risk. Leading prevention strategies for digital asset services in a hybrid role based in London.

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- Lead and evolve our core people programmes, including onboarding, performance, organisational design, development and remuneration.
- Own global benefits, co-designing the strategy and ensuring accurate, compliant execution across all regions.
- Support remuneration and performance cycles, with a strong focus on education, enablement and delivery excellence.
- Project-manage HR technology and workflow improvements, including automation, HRIS enhancements and vendor transitions.
- Provide pragmatic guidance on employee relations matters as they arise, partnering closely with leaders.
- Develop board-level people insights, including dashboards on headcount, turnover, compensation, hiring and workforce trends.
- Design scalable, end-to-end HR processes - onboarding, offboarding, mobility, payroll feeds, benefits administration and HRIS operations - working closely with the Coordinator to execute.

People & Culture Lead

People & Culture Lead at Zodia Custody managing core HR programmes and operations. Driving strategic HR initiatives and overseeing employee experience with institutional focus.

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• Develop and Maintain Automation Frameworks: Design and implement automation frameworks for both mobile and web applications using tools like Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, and Appium.
• Test Script Creation and Execution: Write, execute, and maintain automated test scripts in languages such as JavaScript, and TypeScript.
• CI/CD Integration: Integrate automation tests into CI/CD pipelines, leveraging tools like GitHub Actions and Jenkins to streamline deployments.
• Design and implement Test scripts
• Performance and Load Testing: Conduct performance testing to ensure high-quality standards across all releases.
• Execute test cases, document results, update progress and track bugs
• Collaborate in Agile Teams: Work closely with cross-functional teams in an Agile environment, participating in sprint planning, code reviews, and test case design.
• Test Data and Environment Management: Generate and manage test data and environments to support automated test execution.
• Documentation: Document testing procedures, results, and create detailed reports for stakeholders.
• Continuous Improvement: Stay current with QA best practices and proactively seek improvements to enhance testing efficiency and accuracy.

Software Development Engineer – Test

SDET developing and maintaining automation frameworks and scripts for financial industry applications. Collaborating in Agile teams to enhance testing efficiency and quality standards.

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The Information Security Risk Specialist reports to the Chief Security Officer of Zodia Custody, who is accountable for Information & Cyber Security. As Zodia’s core mission is to provide safe custody of digital assets, this role is critical for ensuring that appropriate security countermeasures and operational capabilities have been implemented to respond to the evolving threat landscape of cyber-attacks.



**Key Purpose**

- Maintain strong stakeholder engagement and serve as a point of contact of ICS related matters;
- Help to drive ICS requirements of Zodia and its clients into enhancements to Zodia products or ICS related initiatives;
- Engage external agencies / third parties to understand the threat environment and reported events; assess impact to Zodia;
- Engage with ICS stakeholders and external clients to demonstrate how ICS controls are being embedded into Zodia.



**Key Responsibilities **

- Continually improving Zodia’s product and platform security by embedding security and resilience from the start and by default;
- Partner with various Zodia teams to continually drive down ICS risks, within risk appetite;
- Contribute to the operational delivery of controls, specifically for threat intelligence & modelling, application security, identity & access and security incident management.
- Manage ICS industry certification and audit activities for ISO 27001:2022 and SOC 1 & 2.
- Oversee and play a core role in lifecycle management of keys, covering generation, use and decommissioning of keys
- Review regulatory obligations for ICS requirements across Zodia’s jurisdiction footprint & drive implementation into technology (e.g. SG/MAS, EU/CSSF & DORA, AU/ASIC, UAE/ADGM, HK/HKMA etc). Take responsibility for effective implementation and coordinate with risk, compliance and technology teams to ensure effective oversight.
- Contribute ICT related information for regulatory reporting managed by the Compliance team.
- Drive security culture/awareness and help improve readiness for a cyber event;
- Contribute to the enhancement of ICS policy, standards and DOIs.
- Support the planning and implementation of Business Continuity Management within the organization.
- Provide technical expertise and knowledge in the context of the monitoring outsourced ICT service provider.
- Work with the stakeholders and other functions to validate the resilience of data and systems against Cyber threats.
- Collaborate with colleagues on client acquisition, improving the efficiency of due diligence processes and client pitches.


Information Security Risk Specialist

Information Security Risk Specialist at Zodia Custody responsible for enhancing cybersecurity measures. Collaborating with teams to improve resilience against cyber threats while managing industry compliance standards.

Zodia Custody is the leading institution-first digital asset custodian by Standard Chartered, in association with Northern Trust and SBI Holdings. We enable institutional investors around the globe to realise the full potential of the digital asset future – simply, safely, and without compromise. Through the combination of leading technology, custody, governance and compliance, Zodia Custody satisfies the complex needs of institutional investors.

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