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Financial Crimes & Risk Data Analyst

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You will improve and maintain transaction monitoring across card, ACH, wire, and digital asset activity. You will perform deep-dive investigations into emerging risk patterns and convert findings into scalable monitoring logic. You will analyze alert and case data to evaluate rule performance, build dashboards and recurring reports, and perform ad hoc risk analyses across cohorts, geographies, products, and transaction behaviors. You will partner with investigations and compliance stakeholders to ensure monitoring logic reflects real-world risk signals and regulatory expectations, and support design of KYC/KYB risk segmentation.

Responsibilities

  • Improve transaction monitoring rules across card, ACH, wire, and digital asset activity
  • Conduct deep-dive investigations into emerging risk patterns and convert findings into monitoring logic
  • Analyze alert and case data to evaluate rule performance and recommend optimizations
  • Partner with Compliance Investigations to identify typologies and align monitoring logic with real-world signals
  • Support design and refinement of onboarding and KYC/KYB risk segmentation frameworks
  • Build and maintain dashboards and recurring reporting on rule effectiveness and operational efficiency
  • Perform ad hoc risk analyses across customer cohorts, geographies, products, and transaction behaviors

Requirements

  • 2–4+ years of experience in risk analytics, financial crimes analytics, compliance data, fraud analytics, or related fields
  • Hands-on experience with blockchain intelligence tools such as Chainalysis, TRM Labs, or Elliptic
  • Strong SQL skills, including complex joins, aggregations, window functions, and performance optimization
  • Experience analyzing transaction-level data and building or optimizing rule-based monitoring logic
  • Familiarity with AML and BSA concepts and transaction monitoring frameworks
  • Ability to translate ambiguous regulatory requirements into structured, data-driven logic
  • Strong analytical thinking and ability to independently structure open-ended problems

Benefits

  • Equity option plan
  • Bonus
  • Unlimited time off (minimum 10 days required)
  • Flexible working with remote option
  • Home office stipend
  • Health, dental, and vision plans (for US employees) for dependents
  • 100% company-subsidized life insurance
  • 401(k) with 4% company match
  • Company-issued Rain card for testing and eligible health and wellness spending
  • Team summits and company offsites

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