Senior Financial Crimes Analyst
Uphold lets users buy, hold, exchange and send digital and traditional currencies in one account, enabling cross-border payments and multi-asset trading.
Maintainer signals as of 8/10/2026
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About Uphold
Uphold helps users manage digital and traditional assets by providing direct conversion between cryptocurrencies, fiat currencies, and commodities without intermediate steps. With it, users can trade across asset classes, send global payments, and access stablecoin services. Uphold maintains full reserves with real-time proof of funds and operates under regulatory licenses across multiple jurisdictions.
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About the Role
You will investigate suspected money laundering, terrorist financing, and other financial crime. You will review suspicious customer activity, prepare and file internal and external suspicious activity reports, maintain customer due diligence records, improve monitoring rules, identify malicious-activity trends, and follow AML and CTF regulatory developments.
Requirements
- 2–5 years of experience in a senior AML/CTF compliance role within financial services
- Experience investigating, preparing, and filing suspicious activity reports with the Portuguese FIU
- Understanding of international and domestic money-laundering and terrorist-financing regulations
- Fluency in Portuguese and English
- Written and verbal communication skills
Responsibilities
- Review, prepare, and file suspicious activity reports with the Portuguese FIU
- Improve transaction-monitoring rules and suspicious-activity escalation procedures
- Identify trends to prevent future malicious activity
- Follow AML and CTF industry developments, rules, and regulations
Benefits
- Performance-based annual bonus program
- Paid time off
- Healthcare
- Employee assistance programs
- Flexible working location and hours
- Events and celebrations
- Well-stocked office kitchen
