Junior AML Officer (Crypto Experience)

The client is a global digital asset trading (crypto exchange) business operating across OTC and market-making, focused on delivering institutional-grade execution, deep liquidity, and efficient trading across centralised and decentralised venues. Its offering is built for qualified investors, financial institutions, exchanges, miners, token projects, and family offices, with a strong emphasis on secure trading, competitive pricing, and around-the-clock service.

This role sits at the heart of the company’s first-line financial crime controls. It is a strong opportunity for an early-career AML professional who wants exposure to digital assets, OTC workflows, institutional onboarding, and cross-border compliance operations in a fully remote environment. You will help protect the business while ensuring a smooth onboarding and monitoring experience for sophisticated clients and external partners.

🔍 Responsibilities:
• Conduct end-to-end KYC and KYB reviews for individual, corporate, and institutional clients onboarding to the OTC desk
• Verify legal entities, ownership structures, UBOs, source of funds, and source of wealth documentation in line with internal policy and regulatory expectations
• Assess customer risk and assign onboarding risk ratings using the company’s AML framework and jurisdiction-specific risk indicators
• Perform periodic reviews, trigger event reviews, and remediation of existing client files to maintain complete and accurate compliance records
• Review sanctions, PEP, and adverse media screening results and document clear, risk-based decisions
• Investigate alerts generated by transaction monitoring, wallet screening, and blockchain analytics tools across fiat and digital asset flows
• Escalate unusual activity, high-risk clients, and red-flag cases to senior compliance stakeholders, including the MLRO, with concise case summaries
• Support the preparation of internal suspicious activity case files and contribute to SAR/STR drafting where required
• Respond to RFIs and compliance questionnaires from banks, liquidity providers, and other counterparties in a timely and professional manner
• Maintain strong audit trails across compliance systems and help improve control effectiveness, alert handling, and onboarding workflows

🎓 Requirements:
• 1–3 years of experience in AML, KYC, KYB, or financial crime compliance within FinTech and Crypto
• Good working knowledge of AML/CFT principles, customer due diligence, sanctions screening, and risk-based onboarding
• Exposure to corporate structures, beneficial ownership analysis, and higher-risk client profiles
• Hands-on experience with screening, case management, and transaction monitoring tools; exposure to blockchain analytics platforms is a strong advantage
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken
• High attention to detail, solid judgment, and the ability to investigate anomalies and connect fragmented pieces of information
• Able to manage priorities independently while maintaining quality, documentation standards, and turnaround times
• CAMS, ICA, or another relevant compliance certification is an advantage, but not essential

✨ The Employer Offers:
• A fully remote role within a fast-paced digital assets and OTC trading environment
• Meaningful exposure to institutional clients, complex onboarding cases, and real-world financial crime investigations
• Strong learning potential at the intersection of traditional finance, crypto, and cross-border compliance
• Professional development support, including compliance certifications and ongoing skill-building
• A modern, international, tech-driven culture with close collaboration across distributed teams
• Competitive compensation with performance-related upside
• The chance to grow into a broader AML, investigations, or compliance operations role as the business scales

If you’re ready to build your AML career in a high-growth digital assets environment, let’s talk!