Financial Crimes Investigator - Cryptocurrency / Blockchain

Financial Crimes Investigator

Treliant is a global consulting firm serving banks, mortgage originators and servicers, FinTechs, and other companies providing financial services. We are led by practitioners from the industry and the regulatory community who bring deep domain knowledge to help our clients drive business change and address the most pressing compliance, regulatory, and operational challenges.

We provide data-driven, technology-enabled advisory and consulting, implementation, staffing and managed services solutions to the regulatory compliance, risk, financial crimes, and capital markets functions of our clients.

Founded in 2005, Treliant is headquartered in Washington, DC, with offices across the United States, London, Belfast, and ?d?, Poland. For more information visit www.treliant.com.

Treliant is committed to fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment that values and embraces all races, religions, ages, abilities, gender, sexual orientations, ethnicities, languages, nationalities, political parties, socioeconomic groups and other characteristics that inform an individual worldwide view and experiences and systems of beliefs ("the principles"). We believe in championing every voice and ensuring everyone's full potential.

We are looking for Financial Crimes Investigators with an expertise in blockchain and cryptocurrencies to join our team for remote, project-based opportunities.

Responsibilities

While the scope of each project may be different, your duties & responsibilities may include :

• Conduct thorough investigations into potential financial crimes, including money laundering, fraud, and sanctions violations, using advanced techniques and tools.
• Perform Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) checks on high-risk clients, including analyzing complex financial transactions, assessing risk, and identifying suspicious activities.
• Ensure clients meet regulatory and compliance standards by performing CDD checks, including KYC (Know Your Customer) assessments and analyzing source of funds.
• Analyze cryptocurrency transactions and wallet addresses, leveraging blockchain explorers and analytics tools to track illicit activity or suspicious behavior.
• Draft and submit Suspicious Activity Reports SARs to relevant authorities, ensuring timely and accurate reporting in accordance with local and global regulations.
• Identify and assess potential financial crime risks across all client portfolios, leveraging both traditional and crypto-related financial systems.
• Work closely with regulatory agencies, and financial institutions to ensure compliance with global anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-financing of terrorism (CFT) regulations.
• Investigate high-volume or high-value transactions, including cross-border transfers, to identify red flags or signs of illegal activities.
• Maintain detailed records of investigations, providing clear reports on findings, conclusions, and recommendations.
• Keep up to date with new developments in the financial crime landscape, particularly regarding cryptocurrency regulations and AML / CFT compliance.

Qualifications

We are committed to being an Equal Opportunity Employer and want to build a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If you are interested in working for Treliant but don't tick all the boxes, we encourage you to apply as you may be the perfect candidate for this or other roles.

Benefits

Primary Location : Remote

Primary Location Salary Range : $40 / hr - $45 / hr

Treliant offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefit package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace. In addition to a competitive base salary, candidate is eligible for incentive pay as well as a full range of health benefits, vacation plan, and 401k plan.

If you want to be part of a dynamic team of professionals, we invite you to join the team at Treliant. We invest in people, and challenge you to advance your career while achieving your aspirations and goals. Here at Treliant, we pride ourselves on our collaborative team culture, where we embrace diversity of thought and innovation. If you strive for excellence and seek an inclusive environment apply on line treliant.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

Right to Work

Treliant is not in the position to provide sponsorship for this current position and so applicants must be able to work in the United States without requiring sponsorship.

Please note, Treliant receives a high volume of applications for all roles. While we will endeavor to respond to all applicants, this is not always possible. Should you not receive a response to your application within 2 weeks, it is likely that you will have been unsuccessful on this occasion. However, we would like to retain your details on our systems and may contact you should another potentially suitable vacancy arise.

Treliant LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, religion, age, disability, or military status in employment or provision of services. When contacted for an interview, an applicant who requires special accommodations due to a disability should notify the office so that proper arrangements can be made