Rain
Financial Crimes & Risk Data Analyst
District of Columbia · Director
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 139 days ago
PythonSQLPandasLeadershipProblem Solving
About the role
- The position plays a critical role in strengthening transaction monitoring, investigative analytics, and risk segmentation frameworks that underpin Rain's financial crimes program.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Compliance Investigations to identify typologies and ensure monitoring logic reflects real-world risk signals and regulatory expectations
- Support the design and refinement of onboarding and KYC/KYB risk segmentation frameworks
- Build and maintain dashboards and recurring reporting that provide visibility into rule effectiveness, operational efficiency, and overall risk exposure
- Perform ad hoc risk analyses across customer cohorts, geographies, products, and transaction behaviors to identify outliers or control gaps
- Experience analyzing transaction-level data and building or optimizing rule-based monitoring logic
- We partner with fintechs, neobanks, and institutions to help them launch solutions that are global, inclusive, and efficient.
Requirements
- You are likely to succeed if you have:
Nice to have
- Python experience (pandas, Polars, or similar) for deeper analysis and automation
- Familiarity with KYC/KYB vendors (e.g., Sumsub, Alloy, Persona, etc.)
- Experience designing Retool workflows, internal tools, or compliance dashboards
- Exposure to card network data, ACH flows, wire transactions, or digital asset monitoring
- Experience supporting regulatory exams or external audits
- 2-4+ years of experience in risk analytics, financial crimes analytics, compliance data, fraud analytics, or related fields (fintech, banking, or payments preferred)
- Hands-on experience with blockchain intelligence tools such as Chainalysis, TRM Labs, Elliptic, or similar platforms
- Strong SQL skills (ability to write complex joins, aggregations, window functions, and performance-optimized queries on large datasets)
Benefits
- Our team members at all levels have the freedom to explore ideas and impact the roadmap and vision of our company.
- Unlimited time off 🌴Unlimited vacation can be daunting, so we require Rainmakers to take 10 days minimum for themselves.
- Flexible working ☕ We support a flexible workplace, if you feel comfortable at home please work from home.
- New Rainmakers will have a stipend to create a comfortable atmosphere at home.
Company info
- Rain makes the next generation of payments possible across the globe.
- We're a lean and mighty team of passionate builders and veteran founders.
- Our infrastructure makes stablecoins usable in the real-world by powering card transactions, cross-border payments, B2B purchases, remittances, and more.
- You will have the opportunity to deliver massive impact at a hypergrowth company that is funded by some of the top investors in fintech, crypto, and SaaS, including Sapphire Ventures, Norwest, Galaxy Ventures, Lightspeed, Khosla, and several more.
- If you're curious, bold, and excited to help shape a borderless financial future, we'd love to talk.
- We believe in an open and flat structure.
- You will be able to grow into the role that most aligns with your goals.
- This role sits within Rain's Financial Crimes Risk Management (FCRM) function and supports the data, technology, analytical, and reporting needs of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU).
- Reporting to the Director of Compliance Data & Analytics, this individual will work closely with FIU Investigations and Compliance leadership to enhance the effectiveness, scalability, and regulatory defensibility of monitoring controls across the organization.
- We offer a 401(k) with a 4% company match.
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