Financial Crime Specialist

We hold EMI and CASP licenses from the CSSF and build international payments infrastructure for businesses operating across markets, currencies, and financial systems.

We are creating a unified platform that brings together international payments, foreign exchange, and digital financial infrastructure — helping companies simplify treasury operations, expand into new markets, and connect traditional payment rails with the emerging digital economy.

About the Role

As our Financial Crime Specialist, you will play a key role in protecting the integrity of our regulated payments platform.

This is a hands-on operational role responsible for suggesting and reviewing transaction-monitoring alerts, investigating suspicious activity, supporting fraud detection, and conducting financial-crime investigations across fiat and digital-asset transactions. Working closely with Compliance, Risk, Operations, and Product, you will help identify emerging risks, escalate suspicious activity, and continuously strengthen our financial crime controls as we continue to scale our platform.

Transaction Monitoring & Investigations

• Review and investigate transaction monitoring alerts across fiat and digital asset transactions
• Conduct financial crime and fraud investigations, analyzing suspicious customer activity and transaction patterns
• Prepare and support SAR/STR investigations and case escalations in line with internal procedures and regulatory requirements
• Escalate suspicious activity and emerging financial crime risks where appropriate

Financial Crime Operations

• Support first-line financial crime operations across transaction monitoring, fraud prevention and investigations
• Investigate unusual transaction behaviour, operational anomalies and potential market abuse indicators
• Maintain accurate case documentation, investigation records and supporting evidence
• Contribute to the continuous enhancement of financial crime controls and operational processes

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement

• Work closely with Compliance, Risk, Operations and Product teams to strengthen financial crime controls
• Support the optimization of transaction monitoring rules, investigation workflows and fraud detection processes
• Assist with internal audits, regulatory requests and operational reporting where required

• 3+ years of experience in Financial Crime, Fraud, AML, Transaction Monitoring or Investigations within a regulated financial institution
• Experience working within an EMI, Bank, Payment Institution, VASP/CASP or FinTech environment
• Strong understanding of AML/CFT, transaction monitoring, fraud prevention, SAR/STR processes and financial crime typologies
• Experience conducting operational investigations and making risk-based decisions
• Strong analytical and investigative skills with a hands-on approach to problem solving
• Professional fluency in English

Nice to Have

• Experience investigating digital asset transactions or crypto-related financial crime
• Hands-on experience with blockchain analytics and investigation tools such as Chainalysis, Elliptic, Crystal or Global Ledger
• Familiarity with blockchain investigations, wallet tracing and cryptoasset typologies
• Experience working within a Luxembourg-regulated financial institution

• Build Financial Crime operations from an early stage and make a real impact on how the function evolves
• Work on complex investigations across fiat and crypto payments in a regulated EMI & CASP environment
• Collaborate closely with experienced professionals across Compliance, Product, Risk, and Operations
• This is a hybrid role based in Luxembourg. We are looking for candidates who are already based in Luxembourg or are willing to relocate.