Senior Crypto Threat Analyst - Terrorism

As a Senior Crypto Threat Analyst focused on terrorism financing at Elliptic, you lead complex investigations into how terrorist actors and their facilitators use cryptoassets. You act as a Subject Matter Expert in counter-terrorism financing (CTF), validating exposure and attribution, improving workflows, and translating findings into actionable intelligence. Your work directly strengthens Elliptic's industry-leading intelligence dataset and helps financial institutions and governments disrupt illicit financial networks.

What you'll do

• Lead CTF-focused research and investigations into cryptoasset activity linked to terrorist organisations, facilitators, propaganda and fundraising ecosystems, and operational support networks, identifying typologies and patterns.
• Build and maintain a comprehensive picture of evolving CTF trends across terrorist actors and facilitators using crypto, ensuring Elliptic's intelligence reflects the full range of threats.
• Work across multiple jurisdictions and designation regimes (UN, US, UK, EU, and relevant domestic counter-terrorism frameworks), ensuring intelligence outputs align to different legal definitions, evidentiary expectations, and customer obligations.
• Collaborate with the global intelligence team to identify and integrate new entities, wallet clusters, and illicit behaviors into Elliptic's dataset, keeping it robust, actionable, and defensible.
• Represent Elliptic's CTF intelligence capabilities in client briefings, training sessions, and industry forums, communicating complex findings to compliance teams, regulators, and public-sector partners.
• Support public-sector partners with intelligence that assists disruption of facilitation networks in the digital asset ecosystem.

What you bring

• Experience in intelligence, threat analysis, financial crime, OSINT, or related investigative fields, including work on illicit or terrorist financing.
• Experience in a senior or highly autonomous role, demonstrating independent judgment and strategic decision-making.
• Deep experience in intelligence analysis and managing uncertainty.
• Proven expertise or strong interest in counter-terrorism financing.
• An understanding of cryptoassets, blockchain analysis, and on-chain tracing tools.
• Ability to produce clear, evidence-based intelligence reports for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Capability to use Python, SQL, or AI-assisted querying to extract and analyse blockchain or open-source data.
• AI fluency and ability to demonstrate effective use of AI tools for intelligence analysis, including using AI to accelerate research workflows, pattern identification, OSINT processing, and drafting written outputs.
• A strong analytical mindset with excellent judgment when handling sensitive or uncertain intelligence.
• Experience as an experienced OSINT researcher comfortable navigating multiple languages and jurisdictions.
• Ability to work effectively with global teams and stakeholders at all levels.

Nice to have

• A PhD or advanced degree in a relevant field.
• Proven experience investigating terrorist or sanctioned actors' use of cryptoassets.
• Fluency or working proficiency in multiple languages, especially those relevant to terrorism or illicit finance research.
• Publications, briefings, or media contributions on threat finance or cryptoasset misuse.
• Understanding of obfuscation techniques used by illicit actors.

What we offer

• Hybrid working with the option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year.
• £500 remote working budget to set up your home office space.
• $1,000 Learning and Development budget to use on anything agreed with your manager that contributes to your growth.
• 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, plus an extra day for your birthday.
• Private health insurance with Bupa.
• Full access to Spill Mental Health Support.
• Life assurance covering 4 times your salary to your beneficiaries.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.

About Elliptic

Elliptic is a financial intelligence company specialising in cryptoasset risk and blockchain analysis. The company provides intelligence and compliance solutions to financial institutions and governments, helping them manage exposure to illicit financial networks and emerging threats in the digital asset ecosystem.