Senior Transaction Monitoring & Risk Analyst
Company: CryptoBot
Employment type: FULL_TIME
Work format: Remote
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.
