Lead Analyst, Financial Crimes (Fintech)

Location: San Francisco, CA, USA; hybrid schedule with four days a week in the office and Fridays from home for employees near an office.

Base salary: $139,000–$193,000 per year, plus bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a financial technology company that provides accessible banking services through user-friendly financial tools and platforms.

What you will do

• Set quality standards for financial crime investigations and lead calibration, coaching, documentation, and analyst development.
• Oversee vendor investigation teams, including operational sampling, productivity expectations, and quality assurance trends.
• Analyze AML and fraud risks across accounts, devices, funding sources, counterparties, and behavioral patterns.
• Document emerging typologies and create or improve detection coverage with data, risk, and external partners.
• Design operational procedures for new detection scenarios, including routing, evidence standards, and quality checks.
• Maintain SOPs and prepare operations for audits, independent testing, and bank partner reviews through remediation closure.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in financial crime, fraud, or risk investigations at 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 with the transaction monitoring alert lifecycle and typologies involving money laundering, fraud, identity theft, scams, social engineering, and elder financial exploitation.
• Experience tuning scenarios or thresholds with data or risk partners and overseeing vendor or outsourced investigation teams.
• Advanced SQL and fluency with graph or link analysis tools for mapping relationships at scale.
• Ability to make sound judgments under high volume and sustained ambiguity while working with minimal direction.

Nice to have

• CAMS, CFE, or an equivalent certification.

Culture & Benefits

• In-office work policy with four office days and Fridays from home for employees near an office; a fully remote program is also available in applicable cases.
• Comprehensive health, financial, and wellbeing benefits, including commuter support and backup child, elder, and pet care.
• Generous vacation policy, company-wide paid days off, and an annual wellness stipend.
• Up to 22 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, plus family planning reimbursement.
• Opportunity to work on financial technology products serving millions of members.