Remote Senior Data Analyst - Financial Crimes & AML

Rain; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited time off

Flexible working

Health and Wellness

401(k) with match

Equity plan

Job summary

Rain is seeking a senior Financial Crimes Analytics professional to strengthen transaction monitoring and investigative analytics within the FIU. You will partner with Compliance, Engineering, and Investigations to improve detection, scalability, and regulatory defensibility of controls.

In this role you will tune rules, analyze data, and develop tools and dashboards to support FIU operations. Remote-friendly US-based candidates with 4–7+ years of fintech crime analytics are encouraged to apply.

Qualifications

• 4–7+ years in financial crimes analytics, compliance tech, or related roles within fintech or payments.
• Advanced SQL and Python; able to analyze large transaction datasets and automate workflows.
• Experience tuning monitoring rules, thresholds, and risk settings with scalable controls.
• Familiarity with AML/BSA, KYC/KYB processes and related regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Tune and optimize transaction monitoring rules across card, ACH, wire, and digital activity.
• Analyze alerts and transactions to reduce false positives and improve coverage.
• Manage vendor configurations, thresholds, matching logic, and workflow settings.
• Support testing, backtesting, audits to ensure monitoring controls operate as intended.
• Translate findings into scalable monitoring logic and technical controls.
• Develop internal tools, dashboards, and automations for FIU and Compliance.
• Collaborate with Investigations, Compliance, Engineering, and vendors to improve controls.

Skills

SQL

Python

Monitoring rules tuning

Data analysis

Tools

Chainalysis

TRM Labs

Elliptic

Job description

Rain is seeking a senior Financial Crimes Analytics professional to strengthen transaction monitoring and investigative analytics within the FIU. You will partner with Compliance, Engineering, and Investigations to improve detection, scalability, and regulatory defensibility of controls.

In this role you will tune rules, analyze data, and develop tools and dashboards to support FIU operations. Remote-friendly US-based candidates with 4–7+ years of fintech crime analytics are encouraged to apply.