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Salary: GBP 55,620 - 61,800 / annual
Coinbase's Financial Intelligence Unit (Compliance, 2LoD) is seeking a Senior Investigator to lead complex financial crime investigations across multiple jurisdictions. You will own end-to-end investigations into AML/CFT matters, from alert review through case development, disposition, and SAR/STR submission to relevant Financial Intelligence Units. You'll conduct delegated MLRO reviews of Suspicious Transaction Reports and Suspicious Activity Reports prior to filing, ensuring accuracy, quality, and regulatory defensibility.
You will lead proactive investigations using transaction data, on-chain activity, trading behavior, cross-functional intelligence, and open-source intelligence (OSINT) to identify emerging typologies, threat patterns, and high-risk activity. A key responsibility is developing actionable intelligence from casework and analytics to inform escalations, regulatory reporting, control enhancements, and improvements to detection and investigation workflows.
You'll partner internally with Country MLROs, local compliance teams, operations teams, and other stakeholders on high-risk matters, information sharing, and investigation strategy. External partnerships with law enforcement agencies and other stakeholders on suspicious activity reporting, information requests, and intelligence sharing are also core to the role. You'll support investigation quality through case review, structured feedback, and contributions to policies, procedures, training, and programme maturity.
Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to participate in quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges."
REQUIREMENTS:
- 4+ years conducting and reviewing complex crypto financial crime investigations, including experience across 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 behavior, and develop defensible conclusions
- Strong investigative judgment and 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
- Ability to utilize generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality
