Senior AML, CTF, CPF & Sanctions Analyst

You will investigate money laundering, terrorist financing, proliferation financing, and sanctions risks across customer, employee, and vendor profiles. You will review screening and transaction-monitoring alerts, conduct blockchain investigations, prepare investigation and regulatory reports, and support audits, regulatory engagements, and financial-crime control improvements.

Responsibilities

• Review sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media screening alerts for customers, employees, and vendors.
• Create detailed investigation reports and perform quality assurance on team outputs.
• Trace complex financial-crime syndicates on the blockchain and document findings.
• Review transaction-monitoring alerts using ComplyAdvantage and Chainalysis KYT.
• Conduct in-depth transaction investigations using Chainalysis KYT and Reactor.
• Conduct ad hoc and high-level account reviews and recommend limit or risk upgrades.
• Manage information-sharing interactions with internal stakeholders, regulators, banks, and payment partners under oversight.
• Support audits and regulatory engagements with accurate and timely information.
• Review alerts, customer accounts, and transactions for money-laundering red flags and take action.
• Lead and manage in-depth investigations of customer profiles across fiat and crypto transactions.
• Contribute to rules, alerts, thresholds, policies, procedures, and standard operating procedures.
• Monitor emerging financial-crime patterns, reputational risks, legislation, and regulations.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience in an AML, CTF, CPF, and sanctions-related field.
• Ability to gather investigation data from blockchain explorers, trading platforms, OSINT, and other external sources.
• Advanced use of investigation and analytical tools for in-depth investigations or analysis.
• Experience with Chainalysis KYT, Chainalysis Reactor, ComplyAdvantage, WorldCheck One, GeoComply, Notabene, Databricks, or ThoughtSpot is advantageous.
• Understanding of crypto legislation, regulations, compliance frameworks, and regulatory breaches.
• Ability to analyse transactions, identify suspicious patterns, and distinguish legitimate from suspicious activity.
• Ability to prepare regulatory reports and requests with the MLRO.
• Tertiary education equivalent to a graduate degree is advantageous.

Benefits

• Remote but reachable work policy with a choice of working from home or the office.
• Option to buy and sell up to 5 days of leave.
• Private medical insurance.
• Access to Learnably and additional learning platforms.
• 6 months of primary caregiver leave.
• Paw-ternity leave.
• Annual Inspiration Day in addition to annual leave.
• Regular social events and virtual classes.
• Free lunch and snacks.
• Zero Luno fees up to a specified amount from the start date.