FinCrime Analyst (Crypto)

What you’ll be doing:

• Providing KYC/CDD analysis of individual customers
• Undertaking research, documents checks, and financial crime risk assessment via internal and external sources
• Developing understanding of cybercrime and criminal use-cases for cryptocurrencies and undertaking research via open source and darknet 
• Perform screening
• Use blockchain investigation tools to perform forensic analyses of crypto-transactions as well as wallets
• Detecting and report suspicious activity including the predicate offenses to money laundering and terrorist financing
• Ensuring all documents submitted for CDD are in line with internal policies
• Analysing alerts generated by the monitoring system in order to identify potentially suspicious activity
• Escalating any red flags and potential risks to the relevant escalation teams
• Handling sensitive or confidential information

What you'll need:

• Fluency in English
• Experience in the crypto industry, ideally within an Virtual Asset Services Provider (VASP) such as crypto exchanges
• Experience in working with the blockchains investigation tools
• Experience in handling suspicious AML/Screening cases that involve both fiat and crypto transactions
• Ability to work together with multiple compliance teams
• Ability to multitask and prioritise
• Ability to work well under pressure and tight time frames
• Willingness to work different shifts
• Excellent communication skills

Nice to have:

• Fluency in any other language
• Prior experience in banking in risk or AML/KYC function
• Experience in threat intelligence, or cybersecurity
• Strong technical knowledge of blockchains and cryptocurrencies