Senior AML & Crypto Officer

Role Overview
We are looking for a Senior AML & Crypto Analyst to join Grey, responsible for investigating complex AML, transaction monitoring, sanctions, fraud, and crypto-related financial crime activity and maintain the compliance of Grey in matters of Enforcement engagement, influence policy and full compliance with all the applicable regulations.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct end-to-end AML and financial crime investigations.
• Review customer profiles, transaction activity, source of funds/wealth, and unusual account behaviour.
• Investigate cryptocurrency transactions and conduct blockchain/wallet analysis using tools such as Chainalysis and Elliptic.
• Identify exposure to sanctioned entities, high-risk wallets, fraud, mixers, and other financial crime typologies.
• Review and investigate alerts generated from crypto transaction monitoring systems, applying risk-based judgement to distinguish genuine suspicious activity from false positives.
• Analyse on-chain and off-chain activity to identify unusual patterns, typologies, and red flags (e.g., mixing services, darknet exposure, sanctioned wallets, high-risk jurisdictions, layering/structuring, and rapid movement between fiat and crypto).
• Analyze transaction data and identify emerging financial crime patterns and typologies.
• Support the enhancement of AML, KYT, transaction monitoring, and wallet-risk controls.
• Maintain accurate, well-documented, and audit-ready investigation records.
• Provide practical training and guidance to colleagues on crypto-specific risks, typologies, and best practices in transaction monitoring and onboarding.
• Represent the function professionally during internal and external discussions relating to crypto financial crime risk.
• Contribute to tuning and calibration of crypto monitoring scenarios, thresholds, and rules to improve effectiveness and reduce noise.
• Influence policies of crypto and define the risk appetite.
• Act as primary liaison with enforcement authorities when needed.
• Manage full crypto compliance from end-end aligning with the Head of Compliance.  

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in AML, financial crime, transaction monitoring, or investigations.
• Hands-on experience with crypto and blockchain investigations.
• Strong knowledge of AML/CTF, KYC/KYB, sanctions, and financial crime typologies.
• Experience with Chainalysis, Fireblocks, Elliptic or similar blockchain analytics tools.
• Strong analytical, investigative, and report-writing skills.
• Experience setting up crypto process
• Experience working with global law enforcements and asset recovery.
• Experience in fintech, payments, crypto, or digital assets preferred.
• SQL/data-analysis and experience being able to create AI agents is a plus.