Senior Financial Crime Intelligence Analyst - Crypto

As a Senior Financial Crime Intelligence Analyst at BVNK, you'll handle screening and transaction monitoring alerts to prevent bad actors from processing transactions through BVNK's platform. You'll conduct in-depth analysis and thorough investigations to address complex financial crime threats, taking ownership of cases triggered by BVNK's financial crime systems and controls, with a primary focus on BVNK's digital assets offering. Your cases will cross over into fiat currency, giving you the opportunity to support cutting-edge investigations across both domains.

What you'll do

• Review sanctions and watchlist screening alerts on entities and individuals on relevant lists
• Manage end-to-end financial crime investigations stemming from BVNK's transaction monitoring system, Trade Surveillance, payment screening tools, blockchain analytics provider, and other triggers
• Identify opportunities to improve workflows and business processes through effective use of AI tools and automation
• Receive escalations from, and provide coaching to, more junior team members
• Draft Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) for submission to relevant authorities
• Work closely with colleagues responsible for BVNK's transaction monitoring systems, identifying and testing changes to monitoring rules
• Seek out and escalate opportunities to enhance BVNK's control environment

What you bring

• At least 3 years of crypto transaction monitoring experience within a regulated institution or digital assets setting, with essential experience in a B2B context
• Experience reviewing sanctions and watchlist screening alerts within a regulated institution or digital asset setting
• Experience using tools such as Chainalysis, Elliptic, or TRM or equivalent blockchain analytics tools
• Strong knowledge of AML/CTF regulations, financial crime typologies, and risk-based compliance frameworks
• Experience drafting and submitting Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs)
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, evolving and demanding environment with competing priorities
• Comfort working with a high degree of autonomy and managing evolving priorities to deliver against the team's strategy
• Exceptional written and verbal English
• A motivated and proactive approach, taking pride in the quality of your work

Nice to have

• Familiarity with B2C environments in addition to B2B experience
• Experience across both crypto and fiat transaction monitoring environments
• Any blockchain-related investigative certifications
• Knowledge of Trade Surveillance
• Experience leveraging AI tools and technologies to streamline processes and automate routine tasks
• An interest in digital assets and a desire to expand your knowledge in this space

What we offer

• Competitive salary
• Flexible working hours with hybrid working at its heart
• A flexible approach to holiday
• Opportunities to travel to offices around the world

About BVNK

BVNK is the stablecoin-powered financial stack for enterprises, now part of Mastercard. The company enables businesses to build financial products, unlock new markets, and move money in seconds across 130+ countries with 40+ licenses for fiat and digital assets globally. Trusted by industry leaders like Corpay, Worldpay, Deel, and Flywire, BVNK delivers the infrastructure that makes new forms of money usable within existing financial systems.