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; €4,000 gross per month; - 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!