Financial Crimes Investigator - Cryptocurrency Blockchain

Overview

Treliant is a global consulting firm serving banks, mortgage originators and servicers, FinTechs, and other companies providing financial services. We are led by practitioners from the industry and the regulatory community who bring deep domain knowledge to help our clients drive business change and address the most pressing compliance, regulatory, and operational challenges.

We provide data-driven, technology-enabled advisory and consulting, implementation, staffing and managed services solutions to the regulatory compliance, risk, financial crimes, and capital markets functions of our clients.

Founded in 2005, Treliant is headquartered in Washington, DC, with offices across the United States, London, Belfast, and Łódź, Poland. For more information visit www.treliant.com.

Treliant is committed to fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment that values and embraces all races, religions, ages, abilities, gender, sexual orientations, ethnicities, languages, nationalities, political parties, socioeconomic groups and other characteristics that inform an individual worldwide view and experiences and systems of beliefs (“the principles”). We believe in championing every voice and ensuring everyone’s full potential.

We are looking for Financial Crimes Investigators with an expertise in blockchain and cryptocurrencies to join our team for remote, project-based opportunities.

Responsibilities

While the scope of each project may be different, your duties & responsibilities may include:

• Conduct thorough Blockchain Tracing investigations into potential financial crimes, including AML, fraud, and sanctions violations.
• Ensure clients meet regulatory and compliance standards by performing EDD/ CDD checks, KYC assessments and analyzing source of funds.
• Analyze cryptocurrency transactions and wallet addresses, leveraging blockchain explorers and analytics tools to track illicit activity or suspicious behavior.
• Draft and submit SARs to relevant authorities
• Identify and assess potential financial crime risks across all client portfolios, leveraging both traditional and crypto-related financial systems.
• Work closely with regulatory agencies, and financial institutions to ensure compliance with global anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-financing of terrorism (CFT) regulations.
• Investigate high-volume or high-value transactions, including cross-border transfers, to identify red flags or signs of illegal activities.

Qualifications

• Strong education background; Bachelor's Degree preferred.
• 3+ years of experience in Financial Crime; either directly with a bank/financial institution or via a third party providing consulting services.
• Strong background in AML, CTF or Sanctions, with an understanding of the compliance and regulatory frameworks that apply.