Anti-Money Laundering Specialist
Brazilian digital-asset investment platform and cryptocurrency exchange offering trading, tokenized/digital investment products, custody-related services, and institutional solutions.
Projects
About Mercado Bitcoin
Mercado Bitcoin states that it was founded in 2013 as Brazil’s first cryptocurrency brokerage and now provides regulated services and technological infrastructure for virtual assets, including cryptocurrency trading and digital fixed- and variable-income products.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design and execute the AML and counter-terrorism financing program for a hybrid payments infrastructure. You will monitor foreign-exchange and virtual-asset transactions, conduct due diligence, investigate suspicious activity, prepare regulatory reports, assess partner risk, and manage sanctions and blockchain monitoring controls.
Requirements
- Solid AML and counter-terrorism financing experience in Brazilian foreign exchange, virtual-asset services, remittance, or cross-border payments
- Knowledge of Brazilian Central Bank foreign-exchange regulation
- Foreign-exchange documentation analysis
- Blockchain
- Stablecoin
- On-chain analysis
- Chainalysis, TRM Labs, or Elliptic
- Advanced or fluent English
Responsibilities
- Develop and calibrate transaction-monitoring scenarios
- Analyze transaction rationale and supporting documentation
- Monitor nested relationships among agents, VASPs, and intermediaries
- Conduct customer and enhanced due diligence
- Prepare technical opinions, investigation files, and suspicious-activity reports
- Assess AML and compliance risks in commercial partnerships
- Ensure required originator and beneficiary data for cross-border transactions
- Integrate on-chain and off-chain transaction monitoring
- Manage sanctions screening and high-risk jurisdiction controls
- Respond to information requests from correspondent banks and partners
