Senior Analyst, Financial Crimes & Identity Quality

Chime Financial•Chicago, IL

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Analyst, Financial Crimes & Identity Quality is responsible for performing and helping lead quality reviews across Financial Crimes and Identity workflows, including the quality of unusual banking transaction investigations by reviewing customer account activity in order to identify and evaluate atypical activity. This role evaluates completed investigations, supporting documentation, and case decisions across AML, fraud, KYC/CDD, watchlist, negative news, and EDD to validate accuracy, completeness, consistency, and adherence to applicable policies, procedures, regulatory requirements, and bank partner expectations. The base salary offered for this role and level of experience will begin at $112,000.00, and up to $155,000.00. Full-time employees are also eligible for a bonus, competitive equity package, and benefits. The actual base salary offered may be higher, depending on your location, skills, qualifications, and experience. In this role, you can expect to Lead complex quality assurance sampling and reviews across Financial Crimes and Identity workflows, including Transaction Monitoring no-file and UAR alerts, bank referrals, fraud referrals, KYC/CDD, watchlist, negative news, and EDD reviews. Review customer account activity, investigative narratives, supporting documentation, case decisions, and supporting evidence to validate the accuracy, completeness, and sufficiency of completed investigations. Leverage data and quality findings to identify anomalies, quality trends, root causes, and emerging risks across internal and BPO/vendor investigative work. Identify, document, and communicate quality findings in a clear and actionable way, including defects, policy interpretation gaps, coaching themes, and opportunities to strengthen consistency across Financial Crimes and Identity. Deliver QA feedback and coaching to investigators, QA peers, BPO/vendor teams, and BPO/vendor leadership; help facilitate calibration sessions and champion a quality-first mindset by translating quality trends into clear expectations, coaching strategies, and practical accountability routines. Partner with Financial Crimes, Identity, Risk, Bank Partner, and vendor operations teams to support procedure updates, quality expectations, and operational improvements. Produce quality reporting and insights that help leadership understand trends, review consistency, and areas where process or control improvements may be needed. Navigate complex policy interpretation, and edge-case decisioning, and raise concerns or proposed solutions when quality or risk gaps are identified. Lead or support QA projects, readiness for new or changing workflows, case reviews, and other job related duties or special projects as assigned. Approximately 10% travel may be required.

Requirements

4+ years banking, risk management, or fraud detection/investigation experience.
Prior experience with Fraud and/or AML investigations, with a preference for both, including the ability to identify potential unusual activity, draft/review Unusual Activity Reports, review no-file decisions, and train or coach others on these processes.
Experience with KYC/Identity workflows, including CDD, watchlist screening, negative news, and EDD.
Prior quality assurance or quality control experience within Financial Crimes, AML, Fraud, Identity, or a related compliance function.
Experience working with BPO/vendor investigation teams, including reviewing quality outcomes, driving calibration, and providing feedback or coaching.
Excellent organizational and time management skills, with the ability to multi-task, maintain accuracy, and meet deadlines in a fast paced, high volume environment.
Effective analytical and problem solving skills, with abilities in analyzing data patterns, investigating customer transactions, and translating findings into quality trends and actionable insights.
Self starter possessing the ability to work independently while supporting a team environment.
Strong attention to detail and high concern for data accuracy with the ability to follow directions and apply proper policies, procedures and guidelines.
Proficiency with, or ability to quickly gain proficiency with, case management systems, internal tools, Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word), Google products, and large subsets of data.
Experience identifying and advancing AI-enabled quality use cases, including creating reusable skills or agent workflows, defining practical guardrails, validating outputs against policies and bank partner expectations, and translating quality trends into automation opportunities.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex quality findings to operations, compliance, risk, bank partner, and vendor stakeholders.
Ability to navigate ambiguous or complex fact patterns, apply good judgment, and constructively provide feedback to BPO agents.

Nice To Haves

ACAMS certification is a plus
Knowledgeable of the laws applicable to money laundering, including the Bank Secrecy Act, the USA PATRIOT Act, US Treasury AML guidelines, OFAC requirements, and Unusual/Suspicious Activity Reporting requirements preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead complex quality assurance sampling and reviews across Financial Crimes and Identity workflows, including Transaction Monitoring no-file and UAR alerts, bank referrals, fraud referrals, KYC/CDD, watchlist, negative news, and EDD reviews.
Review customer account activity, investigative narratives, supporting documentation, case decisions, and supporting evidence to validate the accuracy, completeness, and sufficiency of completed investigations.
Leverage data and quality findings to identify anomalies, quality trends, root causes, and emerging risks across internal and BPO/vendor investigative work.
Identify, document, and communicate quality findings in a clear and actionable way, including defects, policy interpretation gaps, coaching themes, and opportunities to strengthen consistency across Financial Crimes and Identity.
Deliver QA feedback and coaching to investigators, QA peers, BPO/vendor teams, and BPO/vendor leadership; help facilitate calibration sessions and champion a quality-first mindset by translating quality trends into clear expectations, coaching strategies, and practical accountability routines.
Partner with Financial Crimes, Identity, Risk, Bank Partner, and vendor operations teams to support procedure updates, quality expectations, and operational improvements.
Produce quality reporting and insights that help leadership understand trends, review consistency, and areas where process or control improvements may be needed.
Navigate complex policy interpretation, and edge-case decisioning, and raise concerns or proposed solutions when quality or risk gaps are identified.
Lead or support QA projects, readiness for new or changing workflows, case reviews, and other job related duties or special projects as assigned.

Benefits

bonus
competitive equity package
backup child, elder, and/or pet care
subsidized commuter benefit
401k match
medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits
Generous vacation policy
company-wide Chime Days
company-wide paid days off
1% of your time off to support local community organizations of your choice
Annual wellness stipend
Up to 24 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents
12 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents
Access to Maven, a family planning tool, with $15k lifetime reimbursement for egg freezing, fertility treatments, adoption, and more.
In-person and virtual events to connect with your fellow Chimers—think cooking classes, guided meditations, music festivals, mixology classes, paint nights, etc., and delicious snack boxes, too!