Compliance Analyst Associate

As a Compliance Analyst Associate at Blockchain, you support the day-to-day operation of the company's AML, CTF, sanctions and financial crime framework, reporting to the Americas Head of Compliance. You focus on transaction monitoring and blockchain investigations, with responsibility for defining and implementing the firm's on-chain monitoring and travel rule framework and strategy. This role offers exposure to complex financial crime investigations, regulatory requirements, and compliance technology within a growing fintech environment.

What you'll do

• Use Chainalysis to investigate wallet addresses, transaction histories, transaction flows and exposure to high-risk entities or services.
• Define controls covering wallet screening, sanctions exposure, mixer/tumbler activity, high-risk jurisdictions, layering and obfuscation patterns, rapid movement of digital assets, wallet hopping and network relationships.
• Establish integration between crypto monitoring and traditional fiat AML controls.
• Review direct and indirect exposure and assess the relevance of identified risk indicators.
• Investigate Chainalysis alerts and determine appropriate next steps based on the customer's profile and transaction activity.
• Support the development and refinement of transaction monitoring rules, thresholds and blockchain-related risk indicators.
• Identify emerging crypto financial crime typologies and support the development of appropriate monitoring controls.
• Ensure that the company's travel rule program complies with anti-money laundering regulations by monitoring, collecting, and securely transmitting required sender and receiver data.
• Provide guidance and informal training to other members of the Compliance team on Chainalysis, travel rule, and blockchain investigations.
• Contribute to the development of internal guidance and best practice for blockchain investigations.
• Work directly with Engineering and Product to design and build automated workflows around transaction monitoring, alert triage and case management.
• Translate compliance and investigative requirements into clear technical specifications that developers can build against.
• Identify opportunities to automate manual, repetitive elements of blockchain investigations such as wallet clustering, exposure scoring, and evidence gathering, and help scope the solution with engineering.
• Use AI/LLM-based tools to accelerate investigation write-ups, alert summarisation and typology research, while applying appropriate human judgement and quality control.
• Contribute to the architecture of the compliance technology stack, including how Chainalysis integrates with internal case management, monitoring and reporting systems.
• Stay current on emerging AI and automation capabilities in blockchain analytics and financial crime detection and assess their practical application to the business.

What you bring

• 3+ years of experience in Compliance, AML, Financial Crime, KYC, Transaction Monitoring or a related role.
• Hands-on experience with Chainalysis, ideally including Chainalysis KYT and blockchain transaction investigations.
• Experience conducting KYC/CDD, EDD and transaction monitoring reviews.
• Experience investigating financial crime alerts and documenting evidence-based conclusions.
• A good understanding of cryptocurrency transactions, blockchain technology and crypto financial crime typologies.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Good judgement and the ability to make proportionate, risk-based decisions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• The ability to manage multiple cases and priorities in a highly organised manner.
• Comfort working directly with developers and engineers to scope, build and test compliance tools and workflows.
• Experience or strong interest in using AI/LLM tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, and Copilot to improve efficiency and quality of compliance work.
• The ability to think in terms of process design and system architecture, not just policy and case-by-case decisions.
• ICA, ACAMS, CAMS or other relevant compliance qualification.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with Notabene.

What we offer

• Competitive full-time salary based on experience and meaningful equity in an industry-leading company.
• Performance-based bonuses.
• Apple equipment provided by the company.
• Health insurance reimbursement.
• Work from Anywhere Policy: you can work remotely from anywhere in the world for up to 20 days per year.
• Based in the Palermo office with a mandatory in-office presence four days per week.

About Blockchain

Blockchain connects the world to the future of finance as the most trusted and fastest-growing global crypto company. It has earned the trust of over 90 million wallet holders and more than 40 million verified users, facilitating over $1 trillion in crypto transactions since its inception in 2011.