Financial Crimes & Risk Data Analyst — Flexible Work

SOLANA FOUNDATION; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited time off

Flexible working

Health, dental and vision plans

Job summary

Rain is seeking a highly skilled Financial Crimes Analytics professional to strengthen transaction monitoring, case analysis, and risk segmentation within its FIU. You will work with Investigations, Compliance, and Engineering to scale controls and improve regulatory defensibility across systems.

The role emphasizes SQL/Python, vendor management, and testing/auditing, with exposure to blockchain intelligence tools and large-scale data platforms. Flexible hybrid work arrangements are available.

Qualifications

• 4–7+ years in financial crimes analytics, compliance tech, or related roles in fintech/banking/payments/digital assets
• Advanced SQL and Python skills with large transaction data analysis experience
• Hands‑on experience tuning monitoring rules: thresholds, lookback, segmentation, exclusions
• Experience managing financial crime vendor settings: screening thresholds, matching logic, risk parameters
• Experience testing/auditing monitoring, KYC/KYB, sanctions, or screening controls
• Ability to evaluate monitoring performance: alert volumes, false positives, precision/recall
• Strong AML/BSA knowledge and translating risk into scalable controls
• Hands‑on experience with blockchain intel tools like Chainalysis/TRM/Elliptic

Responsibilities

• Assist with tuning and optimizing transaction monitoring rules across card, ACH, wire, digital, asset activity
• Analyze alert, case, and transaction data to identify false positives and coverage gaps
• Assist with managing and optimizing financial crime vendor configurations, including thresholds and workflows
• Support testing, backtesting, regression testing, and audits to ensure controls operate as intended
• Translate findings and regulatory requirements into scalable monitoring logic and controls
• Develop internal compliance tools, workflows, dashboards, and automations for FIU/Compliance
• Collaborate with Investigations, Compliance, Engineering, and vendors to improve controls

Skills

SQL

Python

Transaction monitoring tuning

Vendor settings management

Testing & QA

AML & KYC understanding

Data analysis

Blockchain intelligence tools

Tools

Chainalysis

TRM Labs

Elliptic

BigQuery

Snowflake

Spark

Job description

Rain is seeking a highly skilled Financial Crimes Analytics professional to strengthen transaction monitoring, case analysis, and risk segmentation within its FIU. You will work with Investigations, Compliance, and Engineering to scale controls and improve regulatory defensibility across systems.

The role emphasizes SQL/Python, vendor management, and testing/auditing, with exposure to blockchain intelligence tools and large-scale data platforms. Flexible hybrid work arrangements are available.