FinCrime Analyst

About LemFi

About the role

What you'll build and own

• Tune and maintain risk-scoring parameters, transaction-monitoring rules and screening thresholds; document changes with audit-ready evidence.
• Analyse alert output and case feedback; test and implement threshold and logic changes, including periodic tuning cycles.
• Translate financial-crime typologies into detection scenarios and rules, with rationale and corridor coverage assessments.
• Tune sanctions, PEP and adverse-media name and entity matching, and maintain customer and transaction risk segmentation.
• Produce management information and tuning reports on alert volumes, false positives, cases and SAR conversion.
• Coordinate with Product, Engineering, Investigations, Compliance and the MLRO on system changes, feedback, policy and risk appetite.
• Support internal audit, model validation and regulatory examinations with an evidence-backed change log.

Experience

• Around 3–5 years in financial crime, including transaction monitoring, sanctions screening and/or fraud, at a bank, fintech, payments provider or PSP.
• Hands-on experience configuring or tuning transaction-monitoring or screening systems, rules, scenarios, matching logic or thresholds.
• Working knowledge of AML/CTF, sanctions, fraud typologies and regulatory expectations for monitoring and screening governance.
• Able to interpret alert and transaction data, use spreadsheets, and use basic SQL or demonstrate an appetite to build that skill quickly.
• Strong analytical and documentation skills, with the ability to explain tuning decisions to auditors or examiners.
• Clear communicator who can work across compliance, product and engineering.

Nice to have

• Cross-border remittance, multi-corridor payments or multi-jurisdiction PSP experience is a plus.
• Exposure to TM or screening vendors, familiarity with Python or analysis notebooks, and experience supporting audits or regulatory examinations are desirable.