Cryptocurrency Intelligence Analyst
Department: Intelligence Collection
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: London, UK
Description
Are you curious about how crypto is changing the global financial system? Do you want to help uncover the hidden connections across hundreds of crypto platforms and support the fight against financial crime? Are you looking to join a mission-driven company that invests in your growth while working on challenges no one’s solved before?
The impact you will have:
As a Cryptocurrency Intelligence Analyst you’ll play a key role in expanding and enriching one of Elliptic’s most important intelligence products—helping our customers gain visibility into the global crypto ecosystem and make smarter, safer decisions. You’ll be part of a passionate and collaborative Intelligence team trusted by law enforcement, financial institutions, and crypto platforms worldwide. Your work will directly power risk detection, entity screening, and verification workflows at scale. By identifying and profiling virtual asset service providers (VASPs), custodians, and exchanges, you’ll help increase transparency—and accountability—across crypto.
Key Responsibilities
What you will do:
- Research and document cryptoasset service providers (VASPs, custodians, OTC desks, exchanges) to expand and improve the Elliptic products
- Analyse blockchain and off-chain data to identify key risk indicators and assess how crypto businesses operate within or outside global regulatory frameworks
- Apply AML concepts such as ownership structures, compliance controls, licensing status, and jurisdictional risk to profile entities accurately and inform product coverage
- Collaborate with the Intelligence Team and the other Cryptocurrency Intelligence Analysts to link real-world entities to their blockchain representation
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
You will be a great fit here if you:
- You’re detail-oriented, thorough, and willing to put in the time to get things right
- You care about how technology and finance impact society—and want to help make the crypto space safer and more transparent
- You’re motivated by doing meaningful work that contributes to public good, even when it involves data-heavy or sometimes repetitive tasks
- You understand the importance of accuracy in risk-related environments and take pride in producing high-quality work
Our ideal candidate has:
- Demonstrated interest in cryptoassets, financial crime, compliance, or international finance—either through education, research, or relevant work experience.
- A basic understanding of anti-money laundering (AML) concepts, such as beneficial ownership, sanctions, or enhanced due diligence.
- Comfortable navigating structured and unstructured data (news sources, registries, company websites, and public datasets) to assess business activity and risk profiles.
- Eligibility to work in the UK
Bonus Points for:
- Familiarity with VASPs, major crypto exchanges, or custodians—and how they interact with traditional finance systems.
- Experience with open-source intelligence (OSINT), public company registries, or financial regulatory research.
- Knowledge of global AML frameworks (e.g., FATF guidelines, MICA) or how crypto is regulated in specific jurisdictions.
- Academic or practical experience in international relations, investigative journalism, compliance, economics, law
- Interest in learning how intelligence products shape real-world decisions for law enforcement, banks, and regulators.
Job Benefits
How we work:
- Hybrid working and the option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year
- £500 Remote working budget to set up your home office space
Learning & Development:
- $1,000 Learning & Development budget to use on anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development
Vacation/ Leave:
- Holidays: 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
- An extra day for your birthday
- Enhanced parental leave: we provide eligible employees, regardless of gender or whether they become a parent by birth or adoption, 16 weeks fully-paid leave and leave.
Benefits:
- Private Health Insurance - we use Vitality!
- Full access to Spill Mental Health Support
- Life Assurance: we hope you will never need this - but our cover is for 4 times your salary to your beneficiaries
- £100 cryptocurrency for you!
- Cycle to Work Scheme
