Coinbase

Runs a crypto exchange and stores digital assets

Senior Investigator - International Investigations Associate

Financial Crime & AMLConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeRemote in UK

About the Job

Requirements

At least 4 years conducting and reviewing complex crypto financial-crime investigations, including across retail and institutional transfers, spot trading, and derivatives.
Experience preparing, reviewing, and filing Suspicious Activity Reports and Suspicious Transaction Reports, with a strong understanding of multi-jurisdiction anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorist-financing regulatory obligations and reporting expectations.
Ability to conduct data-driven investigations using SQL, blockchain analytics tools, and other research techniques to extract investigative insights, identify suspicious behavior, and develop defensible conclusions.
Ability to exercise investigative judgment and 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 translating findings into program or control improvements.
Ability to use generative AI responsibly with human oversight to produce business-ready outputs and improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end investigations into complex anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorist-financing matters, from alert review or referral through case development, disposition, and Suspicious Activity Report or Suspicious Transaction Report submission to relevant financial intelligence units.
Conduct delegated Money Laundering Reporting Officer reviews of Suspicious Transaction Reports and Suspicious Activity Reports before filing, ensuring accuracy, quality, and regulatory defensibility.
Lead proactive investigations using transaction data, on-chain activity, trading behavior, cross-functional intelligence, and open-source intelligence 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 with Country Money Laundering Reporting Officers, 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 program maturity.

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As a Senior Investigator in Coinbase’s Financial Intelligence Unit within Compliance (2LoD), you’ll help drive Coinbase’s financial crime investigations capability across multiple jurisdictions. This team leads complex reactive and proactive investigations, develops intelligence on emerging typologies and risk patterns, and translates investigative insights into high-quality SAR/STR decisions, escalations and programme improvements. You’ll work on high-impact matters across Coinbase’s global platform, partnering closely with MLROs, local compliance teams, operations teams and cross functional stakeholders to protect Coinbase and its customers from financial crime.

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.

Required Skills and Experience:

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.

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Pay Transparency Notice: The target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below. Total compensation mayalso include equity and bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, and vision).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):

£55,620—£61,800 GBP

Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): 55620 - 61800 GBP

About the Company

Coinbase

Runs a crypto exchange and stores digital assets

Coinbase runs a cryptocurrency exchange for individuals and institutions, alongside financial apps for trading stocks and other assets where available. Its consumer app brings buying, selling and account management together, while Coinbase Prime combines trading, custody and financing for institutional clients. Developers use its software interfaces to build wallets and payment services into their own applications, and customers link traditional bank accounts to move money into or out of crypto. Coinbase earns transaction fees and charges for subscriptions and services such as custody. It was founded in 2012 and is a US company without a physical headquarters.

Company size: 1,001-5,000
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Founded: 2012

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