Senior Transaction Monitoring & Risk Analyst

Responsibilities

• Investigate complex transaction cases related to deposits, withdrawals, wallets, and fund movements.

• Analyze sources and destinations of funds, on-chain transactions, relationships between wallet addresses and accounts, and identify suspicious activity patterns.

• Develop and enhance the transaction monitoring framework, including alert rules, escalation logic, risk levels, and investigation quality standards.

• Reduce false positives while maintaining effective risk controls.

• Identify missed high-risk scenarios and propose improvements to AML and risk monitoring processes.

• Document investigations and maintain clear rationale for case decisions.

• Collaborate with AML, Support, Product, and Engineering teams on transaction monitoring and suspicious activity matters.

• Contribute to building and scaling the Transaction Monitoring function from an early stage.

Requirements

• Proven hands-on experience investigating cryptocurrency transactions, including deposits, withdrawals, wallets, and tracing the source and destination of funds.

• Experience with blockchain analytics tools such as Elliptic, Chainalysis, TRM Labs, Crystal, Scorechain, or similar platforms.

• Experience working within centralized crypto exchanges, crypto wallets, crypto payment providers, or similar products.

• Strong understanding of risks related to stolen funds, scams, mixers, sanctioned addresses, transit accounts, and rapid fund withdrawals.

• Experience designing, implementing, or improving transaction monitoring, risk monitoring, or AML control frameworks.

• Ability to make balanced, risk-based decisions without defaulting to either excessive restrictions or insufficient controls.

• Strong documentation skills with the ability to clearly articulate findings and investigation outcomes.

• High level of ownership, attention to detail, and structured thinking.

• Excellent written communication skills.

Nice to Have

• Experience building transaction monitoring programs from an early stage.

• Experience improving monitoring rules, risk scoring methodologies, and escalation frameworks.

• Proven track record of reducing false positive rates without compromising risk coverage.

• Experience working in products with high volumes of deposits and withdrawals.

• Basic data analysis skills, including working with spreadsheets, simple queries, and identifying recurring patterns.

• Experience mentoring or training junior analysts.

What We Offer

• The opportunity to directly influence AML and transaction monitoring practices within a growing crypto product.

• A highly autonomous role with minimal bureaucracy.

• Exposure to complex real-world cases and a high level of responsibility.

• A clear path toward a management role as the team and product continue to scale.

• Fully remote work environment.

• A team that values initiative, ownership, sound judgment, and high-quality decision-making.