Financial Crime Specialist
Cryptopay provides Bitcoin and cryptocurrency payment services for merchants, helping businesses accept and send crypto payments while remaining in fiat.
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About Cryptopay
Cryptopay Business offers merchant-focused cryptocurrency payment services. Its stated benefits include reaching new customers, increasing revenue, and saving on fees while using Bitcoin and other crypto payments.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
This hands-on operational role reviews transaction-monitoring alerts, investigates suspicious activity and fraud, prepares SAR/STR investigations, escalates emerging risks, maintains case documentation, and improves financial-crime controls and processes. The role collaborates with Compliance, Risk, Operations, and Product teams and supports audits, regulatory requests, and reporting.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in Financial Crime, Fraud, AML, Transaction Monitoring or Investigations within a regulated financial institution
- Experience working within an EMI, Bank, Payment Institution, VASP/CASP or FinTech environment
- Strong understanding of AML/CFT, transaction monitoring, fraud prevention, SAR/STR processes and financial crime typologies
- Experience conducting operational investigations and making risk-based decisions
- Strong analytical and investigative skills with a hands-on approach to problem solving
- Professional fluency in English
- Experience investigating digital asset transactions or crypto-related financial crime
- Hands-on experience with blockchain analytics and investigation tools such as Chainalysis, Elliptic, Crystal or Global Ledger
- Familiarity with blockchain investigations, wallet tracing and cryptoasset typologies
- Experience working within a Luxembourg-regulated financial institution
Responsibilities
- Review and investigate transaction-monitoring alerts across fiat and digital-asset transactions
- Conduct financial-crime and fraud investigations into suspicious customer activity and transaction patterns
- Prepare and support SAR/STR investigations and case escalations
- Escalate suspicious activity and emerging financial-crime risks
- Support first-line financial-crime operations across transaction monitoring, fraud prevention, and investigations
- Investigate unusual transaction behavior, operational anomalies, and potential market-abuse indicators
- Maintain accurate case documentation, investigation records, and supporting evidence
- Improve financial-crime controls and operational processes
- Collaborate with Compliance, Risk, Operations, and Product teams
- Optimize transaction-monitoring rules, investigation workflows, and fraud-detection processes
- Assist with internal audits, regulatory requests, and operational reporting
Benefits
- Build Financial Crime operations from an early stage and make a real impact on how the function evolves
- Work on complex investigations across fiat and crypto payments in a regulated EMI and CASP environment
- Collaborate closely with experienced professionals across Compliance, Product, Risk, and Operations