Senior Financial Crimes Intelligence Analyst

Remitly; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

ESPP

Mental health support

Education and travel benefits

Job summary

Remitly is seeking an experienced senior investigator to carry complex financial crime cases end to end, including typology development and detection logic. You will guide global investigations, support law enforcement engagements, and ensure high-quality, defensible case documentation.

The role requires 7+ years in financial crime investigations, strong data analysis, and experience in cross-border and regulatory contexts. Hybrid work is expected with onsite attendance in Sydney as needed.

Qualifications

• Hands-on data analysis capability with ability to write SQL queries.
• Experience building cases from ambiguous starting facts and documenting defensibly.
• Strong OSINT and public records research skills.
• Clear, economical writing for senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Carry complex financial crime investigations end to end.
• Develop detection typologies and operational detection requirements.
• Provide subject matter direction to global investigations teams.
• Engage with law enforcement or regulatory bodies as needed.

Skills

SQL

OSINT

Public records research

Writing & reporting

Investigation case building

Regulatory engagement

Job description

At Remitly, we believe everyone deserves the freedom to access, move, and manage their money wherever life takes them. Since 2011, we’ve tirelessly delivered on our promise to customers sending money globally, providing secure, simple, and reliable ways to manage their money, ensuring true peace of mind. Whether it’s supporting loved ones back home, growing a business across continents, or pursuing new opportunities abroad, we’re not just here to move money— we’re here to move our global customers forward.

We’re looking for builders, reimaginers, and global thinkers who want to work at the intersection of technology, trust, and transformation. If that’s you and you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career—we invite you to join over 2,800 passionate Remitlians worldwide who are united by our vision to transform lives with trusted financial services that transcend borders.

About the Role

You will carry the casework and produce the intelligence that defends Remitly against the most serious types of financial crime: human trafficking and forced labor, sanctions evasion, terrorist financing, transnational fraud, and professional money laundering. The role has three parts. You will work complex, sensitive, and novel cases end to end. You will run proactive intelligence work that develops the typologies behind those cases into detection logic. And you will oversee how that detection performs in the hands of the global operations team, confirming that high risk typology scenarios are producing the investigative outcomes they were built to produce. This is a matrixed mandate: you provide subject matter direction and quality oversight to investigators who report through global operations.

What You’ll Do

• Casework: Work complex, high severity, and novel cases end to end, including matters escalated from global operations, referred by partner teams, or generated by your own proactive work.
• Build analytic conclusions from limited initial indicators and expand from a single actor to the network around them.
• Document investigative work and reporting decisions to a standard that holds up under examination, audit, and litigation.
• Escalate sensitive and time‑critical findings promptly, with the context needed for a decision.
• Intelligence and typology development: Run proactive investigations and thematic reviews into high risk typologies, synthesizing internal transaction and customer data with law enforcement input, legal process material, open source research, and commercial intelligence.
• Query and analyze large transaction data sets directly to identify patterns, structures, and networks existing monitoring does not surface.
• Develop typology characteristics into operational detection requirements, and support Transaction Monitoring and Data Science partners in building, tuning, testing, and validating the resulting scenarios.
• Produce written assessments and briefings that state findings clearly, separate evidence from inference, and convey confidence levels honestly when information is incomplete or unreliable.
• Own a defined threat portfolio and become the internal reference point for it.
• Detection effectiveness oversight: Monitor high risk typology scenarios in production and assess whether they yield the intended outcomes: correct escalations, defensible dispositions, and reporting that reflects the underlying typology rather than surface activity.
• Review global operations casework against high risk typology scenarios, identify where investigative treatment diverges from intent, and drive correction through feedback, guidance, and typology‑specific training.
• Provide subject matter direction to global operations investigators on high risk typology matters.
• Surface systemic detection failures, including false negative exposure and scenario drift, and drive them to resolution with the accountable owners.
• External engagement: Support law enforcement and FIU engagement, including responding to typology‑focused and geographically focused legal process, preparing referral packages, and contributing to information sharing partnerships.

You Have

• 7+ years in financial crime investigations, financial intelligence, law enforcement, or intelligence analysis, with substantial time on complex or proactive investigative work rather than alert disposition alone.
• Working depth in high risk typologies and the red flags associated with them, and the curiosity to go further.
• Demonstrated ability to build a case from ambiguous starting facts and document it defensibly.
• Hands‑on data analysis capability. You write your own SQL and work independently in large data sets.
• Experience assessing the quality of other investigators' work and influencing how it improves without direct reporting authority.
• Strong OSINT and public records research skills.
• Clear, economical writing. You produce intelligence a senior stakeholder can act on without a walkthrough.
• Experience interacting with law enforcement or regulatory bodies, or handling legal process and information requests.
• Sound judgment and discretion with sensitive material.

Preferred Experience

• Cross-border payments, money transmission, or remittance experience.
• Depth in one or more of: human trafficking and forced labor, sanctions evasion, terrorist financing, transnational fraud, professional money laundering.
• Blockchain analytics experience (Chainalysis, TRM Labs, Elliptic).
• Experience using AI tooling to accelerate research, network analysis, or narrative production, and the judgment to know where it should not be relied on.
• Multi-jurisdictional exposure.
• Additional language capability relevant to Remitly corridors.
• CAMS, CFCS, CFE, or equivalent.

Our Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision via Bupa Life Insurance & Disability Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) available for eligible employees.
• Mental Health & Family Forming Benefits.
• Continuing education and travel benefits.

Our Connected Work Culture

Driving Innovation, Together. At Remitly, we believe that true innovation sparks when we come together. Our Connected Work Culture fosters dynamic in‑person collaboration, where ideas ignite and challenging problems find solutions faster. Under the Company's current hybrid‑work expectations, employees in this position work onsite Tuesday through Thursday each week. Additional onsite attendance may be required based on business needs, and the Company may modify its hybrid‑work expectations from time to time. These intentional in‑office moments are vital for deepening relationships, fueling creativity, and ensuring your impact is felt where it matters most.

Remitly is an E-Verify Employer

At Remitly, we are dedicated to ensuring that our workplace offers equal employment opportunities to all employees and candidates, in full compliance with applicable laws and regulations. Remitly is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Remitly is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

About Remitly

Remitly is a leading digital financial services provider for immigrants and their families in over 170 countries around the world. Remitly helps immigrants send money home in a safe, reliable and transparent manner. Its digitally‑native, cross‑border remittance app eliminates the long wait times, complexities and fees typical of traditional remittance processes. Building on its strong foundation, Remitly is expanding its suite of products to further its mission and transform financial services for immigrants all around the world.