Financial Crime Reporting Analyst

Uphold is looking for a financial crime reporting analyst to join our European compliance team. The main responsibility of this position will be reviewing and reporting attempted money laundering, terrorist financing and other financial crime. This is an incredibly exciting opportunity where you’ll support our team in protecting our business and customers from financial crime.


What you’ll be doing primarily

Conduct investigations into customer accounts and file suspicious activity reports to the relevant FIU and regulatory authorities
Investigate and report illicit activity to domestic and international law enforcement agencies and respond to incoming requests from external partners
Handle fraudulent and otherwise suspicious activity escalations from the wider Uphold team and from external parties such as banking and industry partners
Help us improve our transaction monitoring rules and suspicious activity escalation procedures
Dig deep into data and identify trends with the aim to prevent future malicious activity
Keep up to date with new laws and regulations that may affect Uphold and evaluate and advise on the impact of the changes
Other duties and responsibilities as required or assigned

Required qualifications

Minimum 2 years working in financial services, ideally linked to cards and payments
Minimum 2 years of Crypto experience
Previous experience investigating and reporting suspicious activity internally and to FIUs and regulators
In-depth knowledge of UK and EU AML and CTF legislation and reporting requirements
Sound understanding of current fraud and AML typologies within financial services and the three lines of defence
Fluent written and oral English skills

Bonus if you have

Previous experience working at a Fintech company, even better if you have experience in crypto
Experience with blockchain analytics vendors, such as Chainalysis and Elliptic
Additional European languages, specifically German or French
Experience writing SQL and communicating the results
Professional qualifications such as ACAMS, ICA etc.
Fluency in cryptocurrencies or other digital assets as they are core to our business

What we have to offer you

An amazing work environment in a company that continues to grow, driven by extraordinary and passionate people that keep up innovating and challenging more each day.
An international team, in a cutting edge field, working on the most fascinating projects.
Growth and career opportunities, and the chance to be proactive and creative.
A flexible and enthusiastic work environment that offers you snacks, a lot of coffee and other great benefits.
Open and transparent culture - we get together on a weekly basis to share updates, strategic plans, and engage with each other informally over food and drinks.
Interesting events that keep you connected with the team and celebrate our success. Read more