Compliance, International Investigations Associate

Overview

Senior Investigator in Coinbase's Financial Intelligence Unit within Compliance (2LoD), leading complex reactive and proactive financial crime investigations across multiple jurisdictions.

What you'll do

• Own end-to-end investigations into complex AML/CFT matters, from alert review or referral, through case development, disposition and SAR/STR submission to relevant FIUs.
• Conduct delegated MLRO reviews of Suspicious Transaction Reports and Suspicious Activity Reports prior to filing, ensuring accuracy, quality and regulatory defensibility.
• Lead proactive investigations, using transaction data, on-chain activity, trading behaviour and cross functional intelligence and OSINT to identify emerging typologies, threat patterns and high-risk activity.
• Develop actionable intelligence from casework and analytics to inform escalations, regulatory reporting, control enhancements and improvements to detection and investigation workflows.
• Partner internally with Country MLROs, local compliance teams, operations teams and other stakeholders on high-risk matters, information sharing and investigation strategy.
• Partner with law enforcement agencies and external stakeholders on suspicious activity reporting, information requests, and intelligence sharing.
• Support investigation quality through case review, structured feedback and contributions to policies, procedures, training and programme maturity.

What you'll need

• 4+ years conducting and reviewing complex crypto financial crime investigations, including experience across a range of products such as retail and institutional transfers, spot trading and derivatives.
• Experience preparing, reviewing and filing SARs/STRs with strong understanding of multi-jurisdiction AML/CTF regulatory obligations and reporting expectations.
• Demonstrated ability to perform data-driven investigations using SQL, blockchain analytics tools and other research techniques to extract investigative insights, identify suspicious behaviour and develop defensible conclusions.
• Strong investigative judgement and the ability to produce clear, structured long-form reports tailored to technical, compliance, leadership, and cross-functional audiences.
• Experience identifying financial crime typologies, contributing to proactive investigations and turning investigative findings into programme or control improvements.
• Utilises generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Details

• Remote-first, but not remote-only; expect to get together quarterly for in-person working sessions called "surges".
• Target annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): €95,000 EUR.
• Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.