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About Uphold
Uphold is a financial technology company that believes on-chain services are the future of finance. It provides modern infrastructure for on-chain payments, banking, and investments. Offering Consumer Services, Business Services, and Institutional Trading, Uphold makes pioneering financial services easy and trusted for millions of customers in more than 140 countries.
Uphold strips away the complexity and lack of transparency to open up Web3 finance for everyone.
To learn more about Uphold, please visit https://uphold.com.
The opportunity
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.
Be part of a great company that is revolutionizing the financial services. Apply now!
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