Transaction Monitoring Specialist
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Global fintech company offering payments, banking-as-a-service, and crypto on/off-ramp solutions.
London, UK
About Unlimit
Unlimit (formerly Unlimint; unlimit.com) is a London-headquartered global fintech providing cross-border payments, banking-as-a-service, and crypto on/off-ramp products for merchants worldwide.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will monitor fiat and crypto transaction flows in real time, investigate suspicious activity, reconcile payment movements, resolve exceptions, manage liquidity across accounts and platforms, respond to incidents, maintain operating procedures, produce reporting, and improve controls and automation.
Requirements
- 3 years of relevant experience in payment operations transaction monitoring AML or financial crime operations settlement or treasury
- Experience within payments fintech crypto or banking
- Strong understanding of SEPA SEPA Instant SWIFT Faster Payments local ACH schemes card acquiring and open banking
- Working knowledge of major blockchains stablecoins wallets transaction tracing confirmation finality and network fees
- Understanding of AML CTF sanctions KYC CDD PEP screening source of funds Travel Rule SAR STR MiCA and local VASP requirements
- Experience with ledgers debits credits settlement cycles cut-offs and transaction discrepancies
- Strong analytical and investigative skills
- Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills and preferably SQL
- Ability to work under time pressure with sensitive financial data
- Clear written and spoken English
- Experience with blockchain analytics transaction monitoring and sanctions screening tools is advantageous
- Experience with crypto operations payment incident management operational controls automation or SQL reporting is advantageous
Responsibilities
- Monitor fiat and crypto transactions in real time
- Investigate anomalies and suspicious activity
- Review transaction monitoring sanctions screening and blockchain analytics alerts
- Escalate cases to Compliance or the MLRO
- Reconcile ledgers with banks PSPs acquirers exchanges and on-chain records
- Resolve reconciliation breaks and customer-impacting issues
- Manage refunds returns chargebacks misdirected deposits and fund recovery
- Monitor balances and execute funding rebalancing and sweep instructions
- Detect triage escalate and track payment incidents
- Maintain runbooks playbooks checklists and escalation procedures
- Prepare operational management information
- Propose automation and control improvements
