Specialist Recruitment
Financial Crime and Investigations Recruitment
Larson Maddox helps organizations recruit financial crime, AML, KYC, sanctions, and investigations professionals across regulated markets.
We support hiring across financial crime compliance, transaction monitoring, anti-money laundering, sanctions, investigations, and MLRO appointments, connecting organizations with professionals who understand the regulatory and operational risks involved.
Our recruiters combine specialist market knowledge with targeted search to identify candidates whose experience aligns with the organization’s regulatory environment, risk exposure, and business needs.
WHY LARSON MADDOX
Why organizations use Larson Maddox for financial crime recruitment
Financial crime hiring requires a detailed understanding of regulatory expectations, risk exposure, products, jurisdictions, and the controls organizations use to prevent and investigate financial crime.
Specialist financial crime market knowledge
Our recruiters understand how AML, KYC, sanctions, transaction monitoring, investigations, and financial crime leadership roles differ across regulated organizations.
Search beyond active candidates
We engage experienced financial crime professionals who may not be actively applying but are open to the right remit, regulatory environment, or progression opportunity.
Search shaped around risk exposure
Each search considers the organization’s products, customer base, jurisdictions, regulatory obligations, and the specific financial crime risks attached to the role.
Support across specialist functions
We recruit across financial crime compliance, AML, KYC, sanctions, transaction monitoring, investigations, and senior oversight roles.
Financial crime recruitment across specialist functions
Financial crime teams require different expertise across prevention, detection, investigation, and oversight. Larson Maddox supports recruitment across the core areas that make up modern financial crime functions.
AML and KYC
Recruitment across anti-money laundering, Know Your Customer, customer due diligence, enhanced due diligence, onboarding, remediation, and related financial crime controls.
Transaction monitoring and surveillance
Searches for professionals responsible for transaction monitoring, trade surveillance, alert review, escalation, and the identification of suspicious or unusual activity.
Sanctions and investigations
Recruitment across sanctions, fraud, financial crime investigations, financial intelligence, case management, and regulatory response.
Financial crime leadership
Searches for MLROs, Heads of Financial Crime, Heads of AML, Financial Crime Directors, and other senior leaders responsible for governance, oversight, and regulatory strategy.
How we recruit financial crime professionals
Financial crime hiring often requires a targeted approach because the right experience can depend on the organization’s regulatory environment, products, jurisdictions, risk profile, and the maturity of its financial crime framework.
We start by understanding the scope of the role, reporting line, regulatory context, technical requirements, and the financial crime risks the hire will be responsible for.
Our recruiters identify professionals with experience across the required discipline, whether that is AML, KYC, sanctions, transaction monitoring, investigations, or financial crime leadership.
We approach relevant professionals directly, including candidates who may not be actively applying but have the experience needed for the role.
Candidates are assessed against the technical requirements of the role as well as the organization’s operating model, regulatory exposure, team structure, and wider priorities.
We support the process from shortlist through interview, offer, and appointment, helping both clients and candidates navigate each stage clearly.
Financial crime recruitment in regulated markets
Financial crime risks and regulatory expectations vary across sectors. Larson Maddox supports organizations hiring professionals with experience relevant to their products, customers, jurisdictions, and control frameworks.
Banking
AML, KYC, sanctions, transaction monitoring, investigations, and financial crime leadership across retail, commercial, corporate, and investment banking.
Asset Management
Financial crime professionals supporting investment managers, hedge funds, private markets firms, and other regulated investment businesses.
Fintech and Payments
Specialists across onboarding, fraud, AML, transaction monitoring, sanctions, and evolving financial crime controls.
Insurance
Financial crime and compliance professionals supporting insurers across AML, sanctions, investigations, governance, and regulatory requirements.
Digital Assets
Professionals with experience across crypto, digital assets, blockchain-enabled financial services, and developing financial crime frameworks.
Professional Services
Specialists supporting investigations, remediation, regulatory response, advisory work, and complex financial crime programs.
FOR FINANCIAL CRIME PROFESSIONALS
Considering your next financial crime role?
A move in financial crime should reflect more than title and compensation. The right opportunity should offer the right level of responsibility, regulatory exposure, progression, and scope to develop within a specialist function.
Larson Maddox supports professionals across AML, KYC, sanctions, transaction monitoring, investigations, and financial crime leadership. We help candidates assess opportunities based on team structure, remit, regulatory environment, progression, and the wider responsibilities attached to the role.
Some specialist and senior financial crime opportunities are handled confidentially and may not be publicly advertised.
Compensation insights
USA Compliance Compensation Guide 2026
Benchmark compensation in financial crime and compliance
Explore current salary and total compensation benchmarks across the US financial services compliance market. The Larson Maddox 2026 USA Compliance Compensation Guide provides insights to support hiring decisions, salary reviews, and career planning across specialist and senior compliance functions.
Common questions about financial crime recruitment
Larson Maddox recruits across financial crime compliance, AML, KYC, sanctions, transaction monitoring, financial crime investigations, fraud, surveillance, and senior leadership. Roles can include AML and KYC specialists, Financial Crime Investigators, Sanctions professionals, Transaction Monitoring specialists, MLROs, Heads of Financial Crime, and Financial Crime Directors.
Yes. Larson Maddox supports AML recruitment and KYC recruitment across customer due diligence, enhanced due diligence, onboarding, remediation, monitoring, and related financial crime controls.
Yes. We recruit senior financial crime professionals including MLROs, Heads of Financial Crime, Heads of AML, Financial Crime Directors, and other leaders responsible for governance, regulatory oversight, and financial crime strategy.
Yes. Larson Maddox recruits sanctions specialists, Financial Crime Investigators, fraud and investigations professionals, financial intelligence specialists, and other professionals responsible for identifying, investigating, and managing financial crime risk.
Our financial crime recruitment supports regulated organizations across banking, asset management, fintech and payments, insurance, digital assets, and professional services.
We begin by understanding the role, regulatory environment, risk exposure, jurisdiction, and technical requirements. Our recruiters then map the relevant talent market, approach suitable financial crime professionals, assess their experience, and manage the process through appointment.
Discuss your financial crime hiring needs
Whether you are hiring across AML, KYC, sanctions, transaction monitoring, investigations, or financial crime leadership, share a few details below. A member of our financial crime recruitment team will contact you to discuss the role, regulatory environment, and support you need.
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