AML & KYC Officer (Crypto Experience)

🌍 About the Company

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.

💼 About the Role

As an AML & KYC Officer, you will support 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

Must Have

• 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 customer profiles;

• Hands-on experience with screening, case management, or transaction monitoring tools;

• Fluent English, both written and spoken;

• Strong attention to detail and the ability to investigate anomalies using incomplete or fragmented information;

• Ability to manage priorities independently while maintaining quality, documentation standards, and turnaround times.

Nice to Have

• Experience with blockchain analytics platforms, wallet screening, or crypto transaction monitoring;

• Previous exposure to OTC trading, digital asset exchanges, institutional onboarding, or liquidity providers;

• Understanding of source of funds and source of wealth reviews for complex or cross-border clients;

• CAMS, ICA, or another relevant compliance certification.

🤝 Key Competencies

• Investigative mindset with the ability to connect data points across client files, alerts, and blockchain activity;

• Strong written communication for escalations, case summaries, RFIs, and internal records;

• Comfortable working independently in a fully remote, international environment;

• Collaborative approach when working with compliance, operations, trading, and external counterparties.

✨ 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!