Compliance Analyst FIU

You will analyze, review, and investigate transaction monitoring alerts using tools such as Elliptic, TRM Labs, and Unit21 to identify and escalate financial crime red flags. You will prepare case packages for complex investigations that stem from alerts worked. You will keep a watchful eye over wider BitGo platform activity to identify potential financial crime red flags, including reviewing sanctions screening, negative news, escalations, referrals from BitGo employees or external parties. You will collaborate with the wider Compliance team on program enhancements such as risk rule and detection scenario calibration, quality assurance reviews, and data analysis. You will drive efforts to integrate transaction monitoring vendors into BitGo systems. You will draft and update Financial Intelligence Unit procedures, participating in AML training and education efforts. You will maintain an advanced understanding of AML typologies that relate to cryptocurrency transactions, correspondent banking, high risk jurisdictions, and be a vocal point for current regulatory trends, enforcement actions and crypto related financial crime news.

Responsibilities

  • Analyzing, reviewing, and investigating transaction monitoring alerts using tools such as Elliptic, TRM Labs, and Unit21 to identify and escalate financial crime red flags.
  • Preparing documents and relevant information into a package necessary for complex investigations that stem from alerts worked.
  • Keeping a watchful eye over wider BitGo platform activity to identify potential financial crime red flags, including reviewing sanctions screening, negative news, escalations, referrals from BitGo employees or external parties.
  • Collaborating with the wider Compliance team on program enhancements such as risk rule and detection scenario calibration, quality assurance reviews, and data analysis.
  • Driving efforts to integrate transaction monitoring vendors into BitGo systems.
  • Drafting and updating Financial Intelligence Unit procedures, participating in AML training and education efforts.
  • Maintaining an advanced understanding of AML typologies that relate to cryptocurrency transactions, correspondent banking, high risk jurisdictions, and be a vocal point for current regulatory trends, enforcement actions and crypto related financial crime news.

Requirements

  • 3+ years experience in AML transaction monitoring, investigations.
  • 2+ years of experience with using blockchain analytics tools (Elliptic, TRM Labs, Chainalysis, etc)
  • Knowledge and understanding of global AML regulatory requirements and expectations.
  • Strong investigative and analytical skills; experience leveraging multiple information sources to run an investigation.
  • Experience dispositioning multiple transaction monitoring alerts within a given and strict timeline.
  • A drive to understand the causes and reasons for account or transaction behavior and an eagerness to paint the picture of an alert, investigation, or account review.
  • Excellent written, oral communication, and argumentative skills
  • Willing to learn and become an expert in complex blockchain based subject matter and crypto crime concepts.
  • Ability to work independently and with minimum supervision; be comfortable navigating various internal systems and tools provided by vendors.
  • Ability to stay disciplined and pivot when necessary in an ever evolving fast past environment.
  • Organization and time management skills.
  • Eagerness to work with other teams in a highly collaborative startup Fintech environment.
  • The working hours will be 12PM to 9PM IST

Benefits

  • IT equipment support for work
  • Meal & Commute allowance
  • Medical Insurance
  • Attractive Well-being allowance
  • Snacks on-the-house in the Bangalore office
  • Great Talented workforce to learn and grow with