Senior Financial Crimes Intelligence Analyst

Remitly; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Remitly is seeking a senior-level risk investigations role in London, with a hybrid model (3 days onsite per week). You will lead complex cases end to end, develop detection typologies, and oversee investigative outcomes for high-risk typologies across global operations.

You will report to the Head of Global Risk Mining & Strategic Investigations and collaborate with law enforcement and FIU partners to defend against major financial crime threats.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in financial crime investigations or related fields.
• Experience with high-risk typologies and red flags.
• Ability to build a case from ambiguous facts and document it defensibly.
• Hands-on data analysis with SQL and large datasets.
• Experience evaluating other investigators' work and guiding improvements.
• Strong OSINT and public records research skills.

Responsibilities

• Casework on complex, high-severity investigations end to end.
• Develop typologies and operational detection requirements.
• Monitor typology scenarios for correct escalations and dispositions.
• Engage with law enforcement and FIUs; support information sharing.

Skills

Financial crime investigations

SQL / data analysis

OSINT

Public records research

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Tools

SQL

Job description

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.

About the Role:

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. You will carry the casework and produce the intelligence that defends Remitly against the most serious types of financial crime: human trafficking and forced labour, sanctions evasion, terrorist financing, transnational fraud, and professional money laundering. This role will report to the Head of Global Risk Mining & Strategic Investigations. It is a hybrid role (3 days onsite per week) based in our London office.

You Will:

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, synthesising internal transaction and customer data with law enforcement input, legal process material, open source research, and commercial intelligence. Query and analyse 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, economica