Senior Data Analyst, Financial Crimes Risk & AML Analytics

Next Matter; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited time off

Flexible work

Health coverage

401(k) match

Equity plan

Team summits

Job summary

Rain is seeking a highly skilled professional within the Financial Crimes Risk Management function to enhance monitoring, analytics, and regulatory defensibility of controls across the organization. You will tune transaction monitoring, analyze data to reduce false positives, and collaborate with Investigations, Compliance, Engineering, and vendors to improve workflows and tooling.

The role emphasizes building scalable detection logic, integrating vendor configurations, and contributing to

Qualifications

• 4–7+ years of experience in financial crimes analytics, compliance technology, fraud/risk analytics, or related roles.
• Advanced SQL and strong Python skills, with experience analyzing large transaction datasets, automating workflows, and building reusable compliance tooling
• Hands-on experience tuning transaction monitoring rules, including thresholds, lookback periods, segmentation, exclusions, and behavioral indicators
• Experience managing and optimizing financial crime vendor settings, including screening thresholds, matching logic, risk parameters, rulesets, and workflows
• Experience testing and auditing transaction monitoring, KYC/KYB, sanctions, or screening controls through backtesting, regression testing, QA, and control effectiveness reviews
• Ability to evaluate monitoring performance using alert volumes, false‑positive rates, escalation outcomes, precision/recall, and detection coverage
• Strong understanding of AML/BSA, transaction monitoring, sanctions, KYC/KYB, and the ability to independently translate risk requirements into scalable technical controls
• Hands‑on experience with blockchain intelligence tools such as Chainalysis, TRM Labs, Elliptic, or similar platforms

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, coverage gaps, and opportunities to improve detection quality
• Assist with managing and optimizing financial crime vendor configurations, including thresholds, matching logic, rulesets, risk settings, and workflows
• Support testing, backtesting, regression testing, and audits to ensure monitoring and screening controls operate as intended
• Translate investigative findings, emerging typologies, and regulatory requirements into scalable monitoring logic and technical controls
• Assist with developing internal compliance tools, workflows, dashboards, and automations that improve FIU and Compliance operations
• Partner with Investigations, Compliance, Engineering, and vendors to implement, validate, document, and continuously improve financial crime controls

Skills

SQL

Python

Financial crimes analytics

Fraud/risk analytics

KYC/KYB

Compliance technology

Vendor management

Backtesting/testing

Tools

Chainalysis

TRM Labs

Elliptic

BigQuery

Snowflake

Spark

Job description

Rain is seeking a highly skilled professional within the Financial Crimes Risk Management function to enhance monitoring, analytics, and regulatory defensibility of controls across the organization. You will tune transaction monitoring, analyze data to reduce false positives, and collaborate with Investigations, Compliance, Engineering, and vendors to improve workflows and tooling.

The role emphasizes building scalable detection logic, integrating vendor configurations, and contributing to