Transaction Monitoring Lead (Crypto)

Location: Hybrid; attendance at the London office is required at least 1 day per week.

Company

hirify.global provides regulated payment and trading services for fiat and digital assets, including liquidity, instant payments through BLINC, and crypto services through its Client Console and API.

What you will do

• Own the Group-wide transaction monitoring framework for fiat and crypto, including rules, scenarios, thresholds, typologies, coverage, and documented rationale.
• Lead end-to-end alert handling, including triage, investigations, escalations, case management, sanctions and PEP screening hits, SLAs, and quality standards.
• Manage backlog, capacity planning, rotas, outsourced review capacity, and operational performance as volumes grow.
• Tune and test rules, reduce false positives, identify missed activity, integrate blockchain analytics, and automate manual low-judgement work using tooling, workflows, scripting, or AI-assisted review.
• Build QA/QC, SOP, management information, and governance frameworks covering volumes, ageing, conversion, quality, and emerging risk.
• Lead a team of over 10 analysts and senior analysts, develop senior decision-makers, and partner with Compliance, MLRO, Onboarding, Fraud, Product, Engineering, Data, regulators, and auditors.

Requirements

• At least five years of experience in transaction monitoring or financial crime investigations, including at least two years in a lead or management role.
• Experience in payments, e-money, banking, or crypto; experience across both fiat and crypto is a strong advantage.
• Demonstrated improvement of a monitoring function, such as rebuilding rules, clearing a backlog, or automating a process, with measurable before-and-after results.
• Experience with workforce and capacity planning, QA/QC frameworks, operational SLAs, and oversight of outsourced review capacity.
• Hands-on knowledge of rule design, threshold calibration, effectiveness testing, suspicion decisions, and SAR decisions, with the ability to teach this judgement to others.
• Working knowledge of UK AML requirements, including the MLRs and JMLSG guidance, sanctions regimes covering the UK, EU, OFAC, and UN, and PEP screening.
• Clear and precise written English; case notes, SOPs, and management information must be easy to follow and difficult to misinterpret.
• Comfort querying and interpreting data and making decisions from it.
• Experience with blockchain analytics tools such as Chainalysis, Elliptic, or TRM.
• A clear understanding of where automation and AI support monitoring and where human oversight is required.

Nice to have

• Exposure to EU requirements.
• Experience with France’s ACPR or AMF, reporting to TRACFIN, reporting to FINTRAC in Canada, or FIU reporting regimes in the UAE and Switzerland.
• SQL or Python experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Ownership of a core control in a regulated, fast-growing firm and leadership of a team of over 10 people.
• Direct access to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
• 30 days of annual leave, 4 wellbeing days, and 1 company volunteering day each year.
• Benefits include private healthcare, pension, income protection, life insurance, a menopause policy, and enhanced parental leave.
• Hybrid working with a minimum of 1 day per week in the London office.

Hiring process

• Success is expected to include a written 30-day assessment of the current function and a sequenced improvement plan.
• Within 90 days, the backlog should be cleared or under a committed recovery plan, rules reviewed and governed, at least two manual processes automated, and regular management information produced.