Digital Asset AML Lead: Investigations & Screening

Solid Company; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Solid Company in Warszawa is seeking an experienced senior financial crime leader to oversee real-time screening and investigations across fiat and digital asset transactions. You will drive policy, training, and a scalable 1LOD TOM while leading a team of screening analysts and investigators.

You will collaborate with Legal, Risk, and Technology to optimize tools like Chainalysis and TRM Labs, reporting risk metrics to senior management in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of financial crime compliance, screening, or investigations experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on AML investigations and screening for digital assets and cryptocurrency cases.
• Master's degree required.
• Proven track record of managing, coaching, and developing teams.

Responsibilities

• Oversee real-time financial crime screening of all digital asset transactions, ensuring timely alert triage, escalation, and resolution within SLAs.
• Make risk-based, well-documented decisions on client wallets and transactions, determining outcomes and escalations.
• Lead complex investigations across fiat and digital asset transactions on multiple blockchains, using blockchain analytics to assess risk, source of funds, and exposure to sanctioned entities, mixers, and darknet markets.
• Supervise investigative narratives and escalation packages, referring qualifying cases to 2LOD Financial Crime Compliance for regulatory reporting.
• Define and enhance the 1LOD Target Operating Model (TOM) for digital assets screening, with scalable workflows, staffing models, and controls.
• Develop and maintain 1LOD policies, procedures, training materials, and desktop guides for digital asset AML.
• Recruit, lead, and develop a high-performing team of screening analysts and investigators.
• Act as primary 1LOD liaison, partnering with Financial Crime Compliance, Legal, Risk, Technology, and Product teams to optimize screening tools, drive automation, and report risk metrics to senior management.

Skills

AML investigations

Financial crime compliance

Team leadership

Risk assessment

Decision making under pressure

Stakeholder communication

Policy development

Education

Master's degree

Tools

Chainalysis Reactor/KYT

TRM Labs

Elliptic

Job description

Solid Company in Warszawa is seeking an experienced senior financial crime leader to oversee real-time screening and investigations across fiat and digital asset transactions. You will drive policy, training, and a scalable 1LOD TOM while leading a team of screening analysts and investigators.

You will collaborate with Legal, Risk, and Technology to optimize tools like Chainalysis and TRM Labs, reporting risk metrics to senior management in a fast-paced environment.