Financial Crimes Investigator - Cryptocurrency/Blockchain

As a Financial Crimes Investigator at Treliant, you conduct thorough blockchain tracing investigations into potential financial crimes, including AML, fraud, and sanctions violations. You work on remote, project-based opportunities, leveraging your expertise in cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies to help clients meet regulatory and compliance standards.

What you'll do

• Conduct thorough blockchain tracing investigations into potential financial crimes, including AML, fraud, and sanctions violations
• Perform EDD/CDD checks, KYC assessments, and analyze source of funds to ensure clients meet regulatory and compliance standards
• Analyze cryptocurrency transactions and wallet addresses using blockchain explorers and analytics tools to track illicit activity or suspicious behavior
• Draft and submit SARs to relevant authorities
• Identify and assess potential financial crime risks across all client portfolios, leveraging both traditional and crypto-related financial systems
• Work closely with regulatory agencies and financial institutions to ensure compliance with global anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-financing of terrorism (CFT) regulations
• Investigate high-volume or high-value transactions, including cross-border transfers, to identify red flags or signs of illegal activities

What you bring

• A Bachelor's Degree
• 3+ years of experience in Financial Crime, either directly with a bank/financial institution or via consulting services
• A strong background in AML, CFT, or Sanctions, with an understanding of the compliance and regulatory frameworks that apply
• Familiarity with cryptocurrency blockchain tracing and blockchain technologies, including investigating transactions on blockchain platforms and identifying risks associated with digital assets
• Experience with blockchain forensics tools such as Chainalysis, Elliptic, or CipherTrace to trace and analyze crypto transactions
• Knowledge of global regulatory frameworks for crypto, including FATF's Travel Rule, KYC/AML compliance for digital assets, and the legal landscape around crypto in different regions
• Experience in developing risk mitigation strategies for crypto-based financial crimes, including fraud prevention and transaction monitoring in the crypto space
• The ability to work in the United States without requiring sponsorship

What we offer

• Hourly rate of $50-$60
• Remote work
• Incentive pay eligibility
• Health benefits, vacation plan, and 401k plan

About Treliant

Treliant is a global consulting firm founded in 2005, headquartered in Washington, DC, with offices across the United States, London, Belfast, and Łódź, Poland. The firm serves banks, mortgage originators and servicers, FinTechs, and other financial services companies, providing data-driven, technology-enabled advisory and consulting, implementation, staffing, and managed services solutions for regulatory compliance, risk, financial crimes, and capital markets functions.