Senior Crypto Threat Analyst - Terrorism
Elliptic helps businesses detect and prevent financial crime in crypto through blockchain analytics and compliance solutions.
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About Elliptic
Elliptic provides blockchain analytics tools for financial institutions, crypto businesses, and regulators to manage risk and investigate crime. Their platform enables real-time wallet screening, transaction monitoring, and cross-chain investigations to ensure regulatory compliance and prevent financial crime.
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About the Role
Lead complex investigations into cryptoasset use by terrorist actors and facilitation networks, validate exposure and attribution confidence, build counter-terrorism financing intelligence, integrate entities and wallet clusters into datasets, develop typologies and detection logic, and communicate findings to customers, regulators, and public-sector partners.
Requirements
- Experience in intelligence, threat analysis, financial crime, OSINT, or related investigative fields.
- Experience in a senior or highly autonomous role.
- Understanding of cryptoassets, blockchain analysis, and on-chain tracing tools.
- Experience producing evidence-based intelligence reports.
- Ability to use Python, SQL, or AI-assisted querying to analyze blockchain or open-source data.
- Strong analytical judgment when handling sensitive or uncertain intelligence.
- AI fluency applied to intelligence analysis, research workflows, pattern identification, OSINT processing, and written outputs.
- Experience investigating terrorist or sanctioned actors’ use of cryptoassets.
- Fluency or working proficiency in multiple languages.
- Understanding of obfuscation techniques used by illicit actors.
Responsibilities
- Lead counter-terrorism financing research and investigations into cryptoasset activity linked to terrorist organizations and facilitation networks.
- Build and maintain intelligence on evolving counter-terrorism financing trends.
- Work across jurisdictions and designation regimes.
- Integrate entities, wallet clusters, and illicit behaviors into the intelligence dataset.
- Represent counter-terrorism financing intelligence capabilities in client briefings, training sessions, and industry forums.
- Support public-sector partners with intelligence to disrupt facilitation networks.
- Convert investigative findings into typologies and detection logic.
Benefits
- Hybrid working with the option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year.
- £500 remote working budget.
- $1,000 learning and development budget.
- 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Birthday leave.
- 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
- Private health insurance with Bupa.
- Mental health support through Spill.
- Life assurance equal to four times salary.
- Cycle to Work Scheme.