Financial Crime Investigator - Digital Assets (Crypto)

Overview

We’re hiring multiple experienced Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) Investigators to join our growing global investigations function. These investigators will be focused on complex financial crime investigations involving Transaction Monitoring, blockchain-tracing, digital assets, and cryptocurrency. We are hiring on a remote, contract basis across the following locations: UK, Ireland, Poland, and Portugal.

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.

Responsibilities

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

• Conduct detailed investigations into high-risk transactional activity involving digital assets.
• Trace cryptoasset movements across blockchain networks using specialist analytics tools and investigative techniques.
• Assess suspicious behaviours and patterns linked to money laundering, fraud, and other illicit activity.
• Review and respond to subpoenas, regulatory inquiries, or AML alert escalations with clear, evidence-based analysis.
• Prepare detailed case files, investigative memos, and reports that support internal decision-making or external engagement.
• Contribute to broader intelligence efforts, including identifying emerging threats or typologies in crypto-related financial crime.
• Draft and submit Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) to relevant authorities, ensuring timely and accurate reporting in accordance with local and global regulations.
• Work closely with regulatory agencies and financial institutions to ensure compliance with global anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-financing of terrorism (CFT) regulations.
• Maintain detailed records of investigations, providing clear reports on findings, conclusions, and recommendations.
• Keep up to date with new developments in the financial crime landscape, particularly regarding cryptocurrency regulations and AML compliance.

Qualifications

• Strong educational background - Degree.
• 8+ years of experience in Financial Crime; either directly within an FIU of a bank/financial institution, crypto-firm, or third-party providing consulting services.
• Strong background in AML and Transaction Monitoring, with hands-on experience analysing complex transactions and following financial trails.
• Deep understanding of cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies, including investigating transactions on blockchain platforms and identifying risks associated with digital assets.
• Experience with blockchain forensics tools such as Chainalysis, Elliptic, or CipherTrace to trace and analyze crypto transactions.
• Knowledge of global regulatory frameworks for crypto – Understanding of evolving cryptocurrency regulations, including FATF’s Travel Rule, KYC/AML compliance for digital assets, and the legal landscape around crypto in different regions.
• Experience in developing risk mitigation strategies for crypto-based financial crimes, including fraud prevention and transaction monitoring in the crypto space.
• Strong long-form documentation/writing skills to produce clear SARs, investigative reports, and recommendations for senior management or regulatory authorities.
• Strong decision-making skills in a fast-paced and pressurised environment.
• Strong MS Office skills (PowerPoint, Excel, Word).

We are committed to being an Equal Opportunity Employer and want to build a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If you are interested in working for Treliant but don’t tick all the boxes, we encourage you to apply as you may be the perfect candidate for this or other roles.

Benefits

If you want to be part of a dynamic team of professionals, we invite you to join the team at Treliant. We invest in people and challenge you to advance your career while achieving your aspirations and goals. Here at Treliant, we pride ourselves on our collaborative team culture, where we embrace diversity of thought and innovation.

Career Development - We put an emphasis on personal and professional growth by providing all the training you’ll need to become a highly skilled Treliant consultant. Programs cover Finance, Regulatory, Technology, and Operational aspects of investment banking.

Clients – As a Treliant consultant, you will be working with some of the top clients in the financial services marketplace such as top-tier Investment Banks. Our roles place you at the cutting edge of the projects on which you’ll be working, and giving you the opportunity to learn from, work with and build relationships with the very best within those companies.

Rewards – Treliant offers our permanent staff an excellent total rewards package, including competitive base salary, incentive schemes, flexible healthcare coverage and our company pension scheme.

Core Values – Whether you are a Client or an employee, Treliant wants the best for you. All our relationships are based on our Core Values: Deliver Excellence, Constantly Innovate, Treasure Diversity, Be Nimble, Listen First, and Develop our People.

Diversity & Inclusion – 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.

Right to Work

Treliant is not in the position to provide sponsorship for this current position and so applicants must be able to work in the EU or UK without requiring sponsorship.

Please note, Treliant receives a high volume of applications for all roles.While we will endeavour to respond to all applicants, this is not always possible. Should you not receive a response to your application within 2 weeks, it is likely that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.However, we would like to retain your details on our systems and may contact you should another potentially suitable vacancy arise.

Treliant LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, religion, age, disability, or military status in employment or provision of services. When contacted for an interview, an applicant who requires special accommodations due to a disability should notify the office so that proper arrangements can be made.