Full Job Description
As a senior investigator in , you are responsible for detecting, investigating, and mitigating money laundering and terrorist financing (ML/TF) risks across both fiat and digital assets. You will address emerging typologies, evolving technologies, and unique risks with a particular focus on blockchain-based products, platforms, and customer and entity types across global markets.
Job Responsibilities
• Leverage strong knowledge of banking systems and AML/financial crime typologies across fiat and virtual currencies; be a self-starter who can operate amid ambiguity and use blockchain analytics tools to dissect large volumes of unstructured and on-chain data to identify, investigate, and resolve potential ML/TF activity.
• Lead and conduct investigations globally using blockchain analytics and forensic tools (e.g., Chainalysis, Elliptic, TRM Labs) alongside traditional AML platforms; draft clear investigative narratives, resolve cases, and escalate significant matters.
• Prepare and file Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) accurately and on time in accordance with FinCEN, BSA/AML, and sanctions standards.
• Independently manage your case inventory and prioritize tasks to meet departmental objectives and service-level expectations.
• Contribute to digital-asset investigation processes; facilitate workshops and training sessions to drive awareness of digital assets and associated financial crime risks; provide actionable insights to enhance risk strategy and controls.
• Identify and acquire relevant customer, transaction, exchange/VASP, and on-chain data across platforms to assess suspicious and high-risk activity; ensure appropriate data governance and controls.
• Demonstrate strong teamwork and investigative skills; engage and present intelligence findings and recommendations to GFCC management, senior representatives across lines of business, and the firm’s Legal, Audit, and Risk departments; coordinate investigative activities within GFCC and across regions and functions.
• Share appropriate information with external partners and law enforcement in alignment with policy and legal requirements; support responses to regulatory inquiries and exams.
• Contribute to process improvements that scale globally, including case triage, risk-based prioritization, alert tuning, and typology iteration for digital assets and fiat.
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills
• Minimum 3 years of financial crime investigations or AML compliance experience, including SAR preparation and filing; at least 1 year focused on digital-asset investigations or compliance.
• Proven experience in financial crime investigations, with a focus on digital assets, cryptocurrencies, and blockchain technology.
• Must have hands-on experience using Chainalysis reactor to trace and assess suspicious activity; experience with digital asset transaction monitoring and wallet/VASP screening.
• Experience and/or knowledge of tokenization, DeFi platforms, stablecoins, smart contracts, and other emerging digital-asset technologies.
• Deep understanding of risk typologies and digital-asset typologies, regulatory requirements, and the ability to assess and prioritize risks effectively, with specialization in cryptocurrency trends and typologies.
• Ability to clearly articulate findings, recommendations, and complex concepts to stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills, including managing case queues and fulfilling responsibilities.
• Keen attention to detail and the ability to independently prioritize and manage multiple tasks.
• Experience working with law enforcement, regulatory agencies, or industry consortia on digital-asset investigations.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills
• Experience in risk, AML detection, cryptocurrency investigations, or blockchain analysis is strongly preferred.
• Professional certifications in digital assets or financial crime, such as Certified Blockchain Expert, or certifications from blockchain analytics platforms (e.g., Chainalysis, TRM Labs, Elliptic).
• CAMS (Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist), CFE (Certified Fraud Examiner), or CFCS (Certified Financial Crime Specialist).
• Proficiency with AML software and transaction monitoring platforms (e.g., Actimize, Mantas).
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint), with advanced Excel skills.
• Familiarity with emerging financial crime trends and digital-asset products (e.g., digital tokens and tokenized assets), including typologies such as trade-based money laundering and cyber-enabled laundering.