Financial Crime Analyst
Plasma
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Manage and coordinate end-to-end CDD reviews: gather documentation, verify identity, assess risk, and ensure compliance with regulatory and partner requirements.
- Drive high-quality CDD decisions: evaluate customer risk profiles, identify red flags, escalate appropriately, and document clear rationales for approvals or rejections.
- Support ongoing monitoring and periodic reviews: ensure customer files remain up to date, risk scores are recalibrated, and enhanced due diligence (EDD) is triggered where required.
- Detect and report suspicious activity, including the predicate offences to money laundering and terrorist financing.
- Translate regulatory requirements into operational processes: clarify obligations, identify gaps, and help define internal controls and standards aligned with best practices.
- Collaborate with Product, Ops, and Engineering to design scalable, automation-ready workflows and data requirements.
- Operate with ownership in a fast-moving environment: prioritise the highest-impact cases, unblock others through guidance, and maintain consistently high standards of rigour and documentation.
Requirements
- A compliance professional with a minimum of 3+ years of experience in CDD, AML/CTF investigations, Sanctions Screening, preferably in a PSP/crypto/fintech environment.
- Familiarity with blockchain analytics tools (Chainalysis, Elliptic, TRM) and their use in customer due diligence, transaction monitoring and risk classification.
- Deep practical experience in financial and economic crime sanctions compliance, comfortable navigating regulatory detail and applying it thoughtfully in real workflows.
- Risk-minded and detail-oriented: you think in terms of customer risk profiles, regulatory obligations, adversarial behaviour, and audit-ready documentation.
- Pragmatic and product-aware: you balance compliance integrity with operational efficiency, automation opportunities, and user experience.
- Clear communicator: you are fluent in English and can articulate complex regulatory expectations simply and provide crisp written justifications for decisions.
Benefits
- Above market salary plus token compensation.
- Premium health insurance for you and your family fully covered by Plasma.
- Monthly wellness budget, whether for the gym, therapy, sauna, massage.
- All the tools and tech you need to operate at your best.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
CDDAMLCTFSanctions Screeningrisk assessmentdue diligencetransaction monitoringregulatory compliancefinancial crime complianceblockchain analytics
Soft Skills
detail-orientedrisk-mindedclear communicatorpragmaticoperational efficiencycollaborationproblem-solvingdocumentationownershipprioritization