Senior AML Investigations Analyst — Blockchain Forensics

Circle

Fort Snelling Unorganized Territory (MN)

On-site

USD 98,000 - 116,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Circle is a global internet finance company seeking a Senior Analyst, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Investigations to join the Investigation Operations team. You will detect fraudulent activity, escalated cases, and drive projects to prevent and detect financial crime within a blockchain-enabled ecosystem.

The role requires 4+ years in AML alert review/investigation, strong regulatory knowledge, and experience with blockchain forensic tools.

Qualifications

4+ years experience conducting AML alert review, investigation and applicable reporting, strong knowledge of AML regulations.
Experience writing clear, well-supported SAR/STR narratives and communicating findings to senior stakeholders, law enforcement, or regulators.
Deep understanding of blockchain ecosystems, VASPs, and evolving global AML/CFT regulations.
Extensive experience working with blockchain forensic tools (e.g., TRM Labs, Chainalysis, Elliptic).
Strong organizational, analytical, written, and verbal communication skills with a close attention to detail and confidence to make a reasoned and supported decision.
Experience analyzing large transactional data sets; SQL experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

Investigating complex and escalated investigations, including L2 escalations from AML alerts, enhanced monitoring reviews, and L1 transaction monitoring reviews, and identifying activity which may lead to filing suspicious activity reports, as required by law.
Owning cases end to end, making and documenting the decision to file or not file, and drafting and filing high-quality SARs/STRs.
Occasionally working transaction monitoring alerts, as-needed, and identifying trends across all work types when appropriate.
Assisting in fulfilling requests from and providing support to, external parties, such as law enforcement and banking partners, and internal parties, such as policy, legal and Compliance Operations partners.
Escalating significant risks and findings to the MLRO and compliance leadership, and supporting regulator and audit inquiries.
Ensuring customers are compliant with the laws and regulations to satisfy Circle’s obligations to the appropriate regulatory authorities.
Maintaining a strong operational focus with the ability to manage time sensitive workflows across competing priorities.
Collaborating with policy and compliance data and technology teams to share trends and insights, and driving improvements to detection models, thresholds, and typology coverage to create greater efficiency and more valuable work products for the IO team.
As needed, conduct training and provide feedback to IO analysts.