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Financial Crime Analyst jobs are open across banking, fintech, insurance, and government agencies, with specializations in AML compliance, fraud investigation, and sanctions screening, from entry-level analyst to senior and lead roles. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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About Airwallex
Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own. We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,700 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles to see it in full.
How you'll make impact
Lead complex, high-risk anti-money laundering and financial crime investigations across Airwallex’s global financial infrastructure, helping identify and mitigate risks across cross-border payments, corporate accounts, cards, FX and embedded finance.
- Own end-to-end investigations involving complex payment flows, multi-currency accounts, ownership structures, cross-product risks, KYB/UBO considerations and high-risk corridors.
- Improve the handling of special investigations by overseeing case intake, triage, prioritisation and assignment, and provide investigative analysis, quality assurance and escalation support for SAR/STR matters so regional MLROs can make informed filing decisions.
- Investigate internal fraud and insider-threat matters involving fraud, collusion, misuse of access or other conduct with a financial-crime nexus, partnering with Fraud, Information Security, People/HR, Employment Legal and senior management to produce evidence-based findings and risk-based recommendations.
- Analyse layered international transactions across SWIFT, local clearing rails, card schemes and alternative payment methods to trace illicit fund movements, identify beneficial owners and uncover hidden counterparty networks.
- Translate investigative findings into improvements for transaction monitoring rules, automated detection models, investigative playbooks, typologies, training and broader financial-crime controls.
- Partner with Transaction Monitoring, Onboarding and EDD, Sanctions, Fraud, Legal, Risk, Data, Engineering and regional MLROs to address systemic threats, respond to audits and regulatory inquiries, and strengthen investigative standards across the Financial Crime Compliance team.
This is a remote role based in Dallas, Texas.
Essentials
- 8+ years of dedicated experience in AML/CFT investigations, financial intelligence or special investigations within cross-border payments, global fintech, merchant acquiring, or international corporate and commercial banking.
- Deep understanding of cross-border payment mechanisms, including SWIFT, local ACH and clearing schemes, and FX; business payment flows; merchant acquiring; and corporate entity structures, including complex shareholding, shell companies and beneficial ownership.
- A proven track record of independently conducting and documenting complex, multi-layered financial crime investigations from initiation through documented findings, risk recommendations and support to the MLRO-led regulatory reporting process.
- Solid working knowledge of global AML/CTF and sanctions regulatory frameworks, including, where applicable, FATF recommendations, FinCEN/BSA, FCA, AUSTRAC, MAS and other relevant local regulatory requirements.
- A strong analytical mindset, with experience querying, synthesising and interpreting large datasets of transactional and customer data.
- Exceptional written communication skills, demonstrated through investigative narratives and SAR/STR drafting, with the ability to articulate complex financial crime risks to non-compliance stakeholders, including Product and Engineering.
- Comfort working in a high-growth and rapidly evolving fintech environment, managing competing priorities under tight deadlines.
Preferred
- A professional certification such as CAMS, CFE or an equivalent ICA diploma.
- Practical experience with data querying and visualisation tools such as SQL, Python, Tableau or network/link analysis software.
- Experience investigating financial crime risks in digital assets or crypto rails, or embedded finance/BaaS integrations.
You'll thrive here if
- You’ve operated in a compliance-heavy environment and know how to move fast without cutting the corners that matter.
- You’re comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and moving quickly anyway.
- You connect dots across functions and hold the big picture without losing grip on the details.
- You simplify complexity rather than hiding behind it.
- You say what you mean. You’re direct, but you lead with respect.
Learn more about your team
Regulatory & Compliance is where we build the trust, discipline, and operational resilience required to scale a generational financial platform. As Airwallex grows across 30+ markets, this team turns regulatory complexity into strategic control. You'll lead compliance, enterprise risk, and regulatory engagement in a way that protects the business while letting it move with conviction. Our ambition goes beyond meeting expectations: we're building a risk posture that acts as a competitive moat, grounded in ownership, proactive regulatory partnerships, and frameworks that scale globally while respecting local nuance. It's a team for strategic operators with sharp judgment, high standards, and the confidence to execute at pace in a high-stakes environment. You'll thrive here if you can balance rigor with progress and influence across functions. If you want to architect the benchmark for trust and resilience in global finance, your work here will have a massive impact.
Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters
To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page. Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.
Equal opportunity
Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
Compensation Range: $128K - $210K
About Airwallex
Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own. We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,700 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles to see it in full.
How you'll make impact
Lead complex, high-risk anti-money laundering and financial crime investigations across Airwallex’s global financial infrastructure, helping identify and mitigate risks across cross-border payments, corporate accounts, cards, FX and embedded finance.
- Own end-to-end investigations involving complex payment flows, multi-currency accounts, ownership structures, cross-product risks, KYB/UBO considerations and high-risk corridors.
- Improve the handling of special investigations by overseeing case intake, triage, prioritisation and assignment, and provide investigative analysis, quality assurance and escalation support for SAR/STR matters so regional MLROs can make informed filing decisions.
- Investigate internal fraud and insider-threat matters involving fraud, collusion, misuse of access or other conduct with a financial-crime nexus, partnering with Fraud, Information Security, People/HR, Employment Legal and senior management to produce evidence-based findings and risk-based recommendations.
- Analyse layered international transactions across SWIFT, local clearing rails, card schemes and alternative payment methods to trace illicit fund movements, identify beneficial owners and uncover hidden counterparty networks.
- Translate investigative findings into improvements for transaction monitoring rules, automated detection models, investigative playbooks, typologies, training and broader financial-crime controls.
- Partner with Transaction Monitoring, Onboarding and EDD, Sanctions, Fraud, Legal, Risk, Data, Engineering and regional MLROs to address systemic threats, respond to audits and regulatory inquiries, and strengthen investigative standards across the Financial Crime Compliance team.
This is a remote role based in Dallas, Texas.
Essentials
- 8+ years of dedicated experience in AML/CFT investigations, financial intelligence or special investigations within cross-border payments, global fintech, merchant acquiring, or international corporate and commercial banking.
- Deep understanding of cross-border payment mechanisms, including SWIFT, local ACH and clearing schemes, and FX; business payment flows; merchant acquiring; and corporate entity structures, including complex shareholding, shell companies and beneficial ownership.
- A proven track record of independently conducting and documenting complex, multi-layered financial crime investigations from initiation through documented findings, risk recommendations and support to the MLRO-led regulatory reporting process.
- Solid working knowledge of global AML/CTF and sanctions regulatory frameworks, including, where applicable, FATF recommendations, FinCEN/BSA, FCA, AUSTRAC, MAS and other relevant local regulatory requirements.
- A strong analytical mindset, with experience querying, synthesising and interpreting large datasets of transactional and customer data.
- Exceptional written communication skills, demonstrated through investigative narratives and SAR/STR drafting, with the ability to articulate complex financial crime risks to non-compliance stakeholders, including Product and Engineering.
- Comfort working in a high-growth and rapidly evolving fintech environment, managing competing priorities under tight deadlines.
Preferred
- A professional certification such as CAMS, CFE or an equivalent ICA diploma.
- Practical experience with data querying and visualisation tools such as SQL, Python, Tableau or network/link analysis software.
- Experience investigating financial crime risks in digital assets or crypto rails, or embedded finance/BaaS integrations.
You'll thrive here if
- You’ve operated in a compliance-heavy environment and know how to move fast without cutting the corners that matter.
- You’re comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and moving quickly anyway.
- You connect dots across functions and hold the big picture without losing grip on the details.
- You simplify complexity rather than hiding behind it.
- You say what you mean. You’re direct, but you lead with respect.
Learn more about your team
Regulatory & Compliance is where we build the trust, discipline, and operational resilience required to scale a generational financial platform. As Airwallex grows across 30+ markets, this team turns regulatory complexity into strategic control. You'll lead compliance, enterprise risk, and regulatory engagement in a way that protects the business while letting it move with conviction. Our ambition goes beyond meeting expectations: we're building a risk posture that acts as a competitive moat, grounded in ownership, proactive regulatory partnerships, and frameworks that scale globally while respecting local nuance. It's a team for strategic operators with sharp judgment, high standards, and the confidence to execute at pace in a high-stakes environment. You'll thrive here if you can balance rigor with progress and influence across functions. If you want to architect the benchmark for trust and resilience in global finance, your work here will have a massive impact.
Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters
To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page. Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.
Equal opportunity
Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
Compensation Range: $128K - $210K
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Banking & Financial Services
- Investment & Asset Management
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in financial crime analyst jobs.
- Knowledge of Bank Secrecy Act, AML regulations, and SAR filing requirements
- Experience with transaction monitoring systems such as Actimize, Mantas, or NICE
- CAMS, CFE, or equivalent financial crime certification preferred or required
- Proficiency in analyzing large datasets using SQL, Excel, or similar tools
- Bachelor's degree in finance, criminal justice, accounting, or a related field
- Familiarity with OFAC sanctions lists, KYC processes, and customer due diligence procedures
Tips for Your Financial Crime Analyst Job Search
Tailor your resume to AML terminology
Hiring managers scan for keywords like SAR filing, KYC, transaction monitoring, and OFAC screening. Mirror the exact language in each job posting so your resume clears applicant tracking systems before a human ever reads it.
Lead with your certification front and center
CAMS, CFE, and CFCS certifications carry real weight in financial crime hiring. If you hold one, put it in your resume headline, not buried in an education section, so it's the first credential a recruiter sees.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists financial crime analyst openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target postings by regulatory focus area
Filter for the specific regime you know best, whether that's BSA compliance, fraud prevention, or sanctions enforcement. Applying to roles aligned with your regulatory background makes your experience land as directly relevant rather than broadly adjacent.
Prepare a case-walkthrough answer for interviews
Expect at least one scenario question where you're walked through a suspicious transaction and asked how you'd investigate it. Practice narrating your analytical steps out loud, covering data sources, red flags you'd document, and when you'd escalate.
Negotiate by citing your investigation metrics
When discussing compensation, anchor to measurable outputs from your past work, such as the volume of SARs you filed, cases you closed, or false-positive rates you reduced. Concrete figures shift the conversation from seniority to demonstrated impact.
Financial Crime Analyst Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most financial crime analysts?
Deloitte, TikTok, and Capgemini are hiring the most financial crime analysts right now, with openings concentrated in New York, Texas, and Ohio, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Financial services firms and large regional banks consistently post the highest volumes of these roles.
How many financial crime analyst jobs are remote?
About 70% of financial crime analyst openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, with remote availability higher in transaction monitoring and sanctions screening roles than in positions that require in-person collaboration with law enforcement or on-site compliance teams.
How do you become a financial crime analyst?
Start with a bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, criminal justice, or a related field. Build foundational knowledge in AML regulations and the Bank Secrecy Act, then pursue a certification like CAMS or CFE to signal professional credibility. Entry-level roles in fraud operations or compliance review are the most common first step into the financial crime track.
Can you get a financial crime analyst job with little experience?
Yes, many employers hire candidates into junior analyst roles with strong academic backgrounds and relevant coursework in compliance, fraud, or financial regulation. Internships at banks, credit unions, or fintech compliance teams are especially valuable. Earning a CAMS associate credential before graduating can offset limited work history when competing against more experienced applicants.
What does the financial crime analyst interview process look like?
Most processes run three to four stages. An initial screening call is followed by a technical interview focused on your knowledge of AML typologies, SAR filing thresholds, and transaction monitoring logic. A case study or scenario exercise is common, where you analyze a sample alert and explain your investigation steps. Final rounds typically involve a panel with compliance leadership.
Where can I find and apply to financial crime analyst jobs?
You can find and apply to financial crime analyst jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your experience and regulatory focus, then apply directly to each one that fits.
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