Senior Sanctions Intelligence Analyst
Are you a visionary intelligence leader eager to disrupt global illicit financial networks? Do you possess unparalleled expertise in sanctions, coupled with a deep understanding of cryptoassets? Elliptic invites you to be at the vanguard of combating crypto-enabled sanctions evasion, shaping the future of financial security and compliance.
Join a values-led company where your ownership is trusted, your insights create real impact, and your work directly safeguards the global financial ecosystem.
The Mission: Empowering Global Security
As our Senior Sanctions Intelligence Analyst, you will be the definitive subject matter expert (SME) on cryptoasset sanctions within Elliptic's Intelligence team. This is a high-impact, senior-level role where you will wholly own Elliptic's comprehensive coverage of sanctioned entities, jurisdictions, and evasion typologies. Your expertise will translate into critical analytical outputs, scalable monitoring processes, and clear communications for both internal teams and external stakeholders.
Your contributions will fortify the intelligence dataset underpinning our products, enabling hundreds of financial institutions, exchanges, and government agencies worldwide to make defensible sanctions-compliance decisions daily. You will mentor colleagues, drive cross-functional initiatives with Product, Engineering, and Customer teams, and represent Elliptic's leading capabilities to clients, regulators, and industry partners.
What You'll Be Doing
Serve as the authoritative SME on global sanctions regimes, independently resolving complex analytical questions and producing reliable outputs without requiring senior oversight on domain-level judgments.
Own and meticulously document a comprehensive coverage framework for global sanctions designation regimes.
Lead end-to-end investigations into cryptoasset exposure to sanctioned entities, state-linked actors, high-risk jurisdictions, and evasion networks, managing the full project lifecycle from scoping to final output.
Define and proactively drive the evolution of Elliptic's sanctions monitoring operating model.
Identify and remediate coverage gaps across regimes and designating authorities.
Coach and mentor junior colleagues within the Intelligence function, sharing critical domain knowledge and fostering a consistently high standard of analytical practice.
Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and Customer teams to translate sanctions intelligence into robust platform capabilities.
Produce impactful written intelligence outputs, including reports, briefings, blogs, whitepapers, and client-facing content.
Represent Elliptic's sanctions intelligence at industry events, client briefings, and regulatory engagements, establishing our thought leadership.
What You'll Achieve in Your First 6 Months
Develop a thorough understanding of Elliptic's monitoring approach, our coverage framework, monitoring cadence, and source-of-truth references.
Contribute to significant external-facing research output on sanctioned entities or emerging threats, such as a blog post, research report, or client briefing.
Who You Are
You are a recognized expert in sanctions, someone others naturally turn to for authoritative guidance. You thrive on taking ownership, resolving complex domain-level judgments independently, and proactively closing knowledge or coverage gaps rather than escalating them. You approach systemic risks with a deep sense of personal accountability.
You excel at translating deep domain expertise into scalable processes, automation requirements, and articulate written outputs tailored for diverse audiences. Your communication of complex sanctions topics is precise and clear, adaptable for technical and non-technical stakeholders across Elliptic and beyond. You are a collaborative spirit, eager to contribute your domain knowledge to product, engineering, and customer conversations. You consistently take initiative on emerging topics and cross-functional projects, driven by an insatiable curiosity about how sanctioned actors and networks exploit the cryptocurrency ecosystem.
Essential Skills & Experience
Significant professional experience as an intelligence analyst, investigator, or compliance specialist in sanctions compliance, financial crime, law enforcement, or the crypto industry.
Demonstrated, independent subject matter expertise in global sanctions regimes, including practical knowledge of OFAC, UK, EU, and UN frameworks and the operational distinctions between autonomous designating authorities and supranational regimes.
Proven experience designing or improving monitoring and alerting frameworks, triage processes, or investigation playbooks in a compliance or intelligence context.
A track record of identifying systemic coverage risks and driving durable remediation, including process improvement and automation planning.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a history of producing high-quality, stakeholder-ready outputs independently and to deadline.
Proficiency with blockchain analytics tools, open-source intelligence (OSINT), corporate registries, and adverse media sources.
AI fluency is essential for this role. You must be able to demonstrate your ability to effectively apply AI tools and approaches relevant to intelligence analysis, including using AI to accelerate research workflows, pattern identification, OSINT processing, and the drafting of written outputs.
Bonus Points Fo
Direct experience with researching sanctions evasion typologies involving state-linked actors, procurement networks, critical technology supply chains, or high-risk financial intermediaries.
Experience with automated sanctions list monitoring, cross-referencing tooling, or detection logic design.
Technical understanding of cryptoassets, blockchain architecture, and on-chain analytics methodologies.
Why Elliptic? Our Benefits & Culture Flexible Working & Environment Hybrid working model with the option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year. Learning & Development $1,000 Learning & Development budget annually for anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth. Vacation & Leave 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays. Comprehensive Benefits Private Health Insurance with Bupa. Diversity & Inclusion
At Elliptic, we believe in supporting our team to do their best work and thrive both professionally and personally. We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to empower your success:
£500 Remote working budget to help you set up your ideal home office space.
An extra day off for your birthday.
Enhanced parental leave: 16 weeks fully-paid leave for eligible employees, regardless of gender or whether they become a parent by birth or adoption.
Full access to Spill Mental Health Support.
Life Assurance: Cover for 4 times your salary to your beneficiaries.
Cycle to Work Scheme.
At Elliptic, diversity and inclusion are deeply woven into our fabric. We embrace and welcome individuals of all backgrounds and identities, as this is an ongoing priority for us. We believe that incredible people don't all think in the same way, and our diverse team brings creative thinking and innovation to Elliptic every single day. We are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace, and we encourage applications from everyone, even if you may not feel you meet every single requirement. We cultivate an environment of psychological safety where everyone feels comfortable bringing their whole self to work.