# Lead Analyst, Financial Crimes

**Company:** [Chime](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/chime)
**Location:** Chicago, IL
**Role:** Other
**Salary:** $139k – $193k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Advanced Sql, AML, Fraud Investigations, Bsa, Usa Patriot Act, Ofac, Transaction Monitoring, Typology Development, Scenario Tuning, Graph Analysis, Link Analysis, Vendor Management, Cams, Cfe
**Posted:** 2026-09-04

> Leads high-complexity financial crime investigations, vendor operations, risk trend analysis, typology development, and audit readiness. Requires 7+ years of regulated-environment experience, advanced SQL, transaction-monitoring expertise, and knowledge of AML and fraud typologies.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead and support a team of financial crime analysts and oversee vendor investigation operations.
- Set quality and productivity standards through sampling, calibration, coaching, documentation, and casework.
- Analyze AML and fraud risk trends across accounts, devices, funding sources, counterparties, and behavioral patterns.
- Develop and document money laundering and fraud typologies and identify opportunities for detection coverage.
- Design operational procedures for new detection coverage, including routing, evidence standards, and quality checks.
- Own standard operating procedures and ensure they are clear, current, and audit-ready.
- Prepare operations for internal audits, independent testing, and bank partner reviews; remediate findings through closure.
- Improve controls, procedures, detections, and reusable documentation based on investigation learnings.

## Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in financial crime, fraud, or risk investigations within a bank, fintech, payments company, or comparable regulated environment.
- Working knowledge of BSA, the USA PATRIOT Act, OFAC requirements, and unusual or suspicious activity reporting standards.
- Deep experience across the transaction-monitoring alert lifecycle at significant volume.
- Experience with money laundering and fraud typologies, including mule and money movement networks, first-party fraud, synthetic and stolen identity, scams, social engineering, and elder financial exploitation.
- Hands-on experience with scenario tuning or threshold development alongside data or risk partners.
- Experience overseeing vendor or outsourced investigation teams.
- Advanced SQL and fluency with graph or link-analysis tools for mapping relationships at scale.
- Strong judgment in prioritizing investigations and working through ambiguity.

## Preferred Qualifications
- CAMS, CFE, or equivalent certification.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Base salary range: $139,000–$193,000.
- Eligible for bonus, equity, health and wellbeing benefits, paid vacation, paid parental leave, family planning reimbursement, wellness stipend, and commuter benefits.

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