About This Role
This net-new role involves monitoring customer activity, investigating suspicious transactions, and documenting findings to ensure compliance with financial crime regulations. The position suits an analyst with hands-on experience who is eager to help design and improve processes within a growing function. You will report directly to the Head of Financial Crimes and work closely with the team that developed the financial crime program.
Responsibilities
- Own post-onboarding risk, determining if customer activity is legitimate from alert to resolution
- Work through the alert and case backlog, keeping the queue current with a focus on quality and speed
- Help set the standard for strong, defensible case narratives
- Flag typologies, patterns, and blind spots across cases to improve detection rules and reduce false positives
- Document effective processes and identify areas for improvement
- Contribute to the team's growth and process development as one of the first Financial Crimes Analysts
- Review and disposition transaction monitoring alerts, applying BSA/AML typologies
- Investigate unusual activity across accounts, payments, and cards, including money laundering, fraud, and account takeover
- Escalate higher-risk cases with clear recommendations
- Support UAR and SAR filings, working towards end-to-end ownership
- Write clear and well-supported case narratives for reviewers, examiners, or bank partners
- Conduct enhanced due diligence on existing customers and refresh risk profiles
- Review cases from the KYC team for deeper activity analysis and provide feedback for sharper onboarding decisions
- Maintain accurate and complete records in the case management system
- Help flag patterns and process gaps behind noisy alerts or missed risk, and contribute to better detection rules and simpler procedures
- Partner with Risk, Operations, Support, and Engineering to close open requests and tune monitoring
- Support quality assurance and file reviews, including for the bank partner program
- Stay current on evolving AML typologies and regulatory guidance, and share knowledge with the team
Requirements
- 1–3 years in BSA/AML compliance, transaction monitoring, fraud operations, or a related financial crimes role
- Hands-on experience dispositioning transaction monitoring alerts in platforms such as Sardine, Unit21, Actimize, or similar
- Working knowledge of AML typologies
- Exposure to fintech, payments, card programs, or BaaS program compliance
- Experience tuning detection rules or working with data and SQL to investigate patterns
- Working knowledge of KYC/CDD requirements and BSA obligations