Chime
Lead Analyst, Financial Crimes
$139K–$193K
Chicago, IL, USA +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 4, 2026
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
Chicago, Illinois, United States - Experience
- 7+ years in financial crime, fraud, or risk investigations at a bank, fintech, payments company, or comparable regulated environment.
About the job
Leads financial-crimes investigations and analyst/vendor operations, setting quality standards and improving detection coverage, procedures, and audit readiness.
What you'll do
- Oversee vendor investigation quality, analyst coaching, and operational standards.
- Analyze AML and fraud trends, document typologies, and coordinate rollout of new detection coverage.
- Own procedures, audit and exam readiness, and remediation of operational findings.
What they ask for
- Working command of BSA, the USA PATRIOT Act, OFAC requirements, and unusual/suspicious activity reporting standards.
- Deep transaction-monitoring lifecycle and AML/fraud typology experience, including hands-on scenario tuning or threshold work.
- Experience overseeing vendor or outsourced investigation teams.
- Advanced SQL and fluency with graph or link analysis tooling.
Nice to have
- CAMS, CFE, or equivalent certification.
Pay
USD 139,000–193,000 base salary
Tools
SQL
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