Financial Crimes Risk Data Analyst
Skills
About the Role
You will improve transaction monitoring rules across card, ACH, wire, and digital asset activity to increase detection quality and reduce false positives. 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 and recommend data-driven optimizations. You will partner with investigations to identify typologies and ensure monitoring logic reflects real-world risk signals and regulatory expectations. You will support the design and refinement of onboarding and KYC/KYB risk segmentation frameworks, build and maintain dashboards and recurring reporting, and perform ad hoc risk analyses to identify outliers or control gaps.
Requirements
- 2–4+ years of experience in risk analytics, financial crimes analytics, compliance data, fraud analytics, or related fields (fintech, banking, or payments preferred)
- Hands-on experience with blockchain intelligence tools such as Chainalysis, TRM Labs, Elliptic, or similar platforms
- Strong SQL skills including complex joins aggregations window functions and performance-optimized queries on large datasets
- Experience analyzing transaction-level data and building or optimizing rule-based monitoring logic
- Familiarity with AML/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
- Python experience (pandas Polars or similar) for deeper analysis and automation
- Familiarity with KYC/KYB vendors such as Sumsub Alloy Persona
- Experience designing Retool workflows internal tools or compliance dashboards
- Exposure to card network data ACH flows wire transactions or digital asset monitoring
- Experience supporting regulatory exams or external audits
Responsibilities
- Improve transaction monitoring rules across card, ACH, wire, and digital asset activity to increase detection quality and reduce false positives
- Conduct deep-dive investigations into emerging risk patterns and convert findings into scalable monitoring logic
- Analyze alert and case data to evaluate rule performance and recommend data-driven optimizations
- Partner with Compliance Investigations to identify typologies and ensure monitoring logic reflects real-world risk signals and regulatory expectations
- Support design and refinement of onboarding and KYC/KYB risk segmentation frameworks
- Build and maintain dashboards and recurring reporting on rule effectiveness operational efficiency and overall risk exposure
- Perform ad hoc risk analyses to identify outliers or control gaps across customer cohorts geographies products and transaction behaviors
Benefits
- Unlimited time off
- Flexible working (remote friendly with office option)
- Home office stipend
- Comprehensive health dental and vision plans for US employees
- 100% company subsidized life insurance
- 401(k) with 4% company match
- Equity option plan
- Company-issued card for product testing
- Eligible health and wellness spending
- Team and company summits and offsites