Senior Financial Crimes Intelligence Analyst in Sydney

At Remitly, we believe everyone deserves the freedom to access, move, and manage their money wherever life takes them. Since 2011, we’ve tirelessly delivered on our promise to customers sending money globally, providing secure, simple, and reliable ways to manage their money, ensuring true peace of mind.

About the Role: You will carry the casework and produce the intelligence that defends Remitly against the most serious types of financial crime: human trafficking and forced labor, sanctions evasion, terrorist financing, transnational fraud, and professional money laundering. The role has three parts:

• Work complex, sensitive, and novel cases end to end.
• Run proactive intelligence work that develops the typologies behind those cases into detection logic.
• Oversee how that detection performs in the hands of the global operations team.

What You'll Do:

• Casework: Work complex, high severity, and novel cases end to end, including matters escalated from global operations, referred by partner teams, or generated by your own proactive work.
• Build analytic conclusions from limited initial indicators and expand from a single actor to the network around them.
• Document investigative work and reporting decisions to a standard that holds up under examination, audit, and litigation.
• Escalate sensitive and time-critical findings promptly, with the context needed for a decision.
• Intelligence and typology development: Run proactive investigations and thematic reviews into high risk typologies, synthesizing internal transaction and customer data with law enforcement input, legal process material, open source research, and commercial intelligence.
• Query and analyze large transaction data sets directly to identify patterns, structures, and networks existing monitoring does not surface.
• Develop typology characteristics into operational detection requirements.
• Produce written assessments and briefings that state findings clearly, separate evidence from inference, and convey confidence levels honestly when information is incomplete or unreliable.
• Own a defined threat portfolio and become the internal reference point for it.
• Detection effectiveness oversight: Monitor high risk typology scenarios in production and assess whether they yield the intended outcomes.
• Review global operations casework against high risk typology scenarios.
• Provide subject matter direction to global operations investigators on high risk typology matters.
• Surface systemic detection failures and drive them to resolution with the accountable owners.
• External engagement: Support law enforcement and FIU engagement, including responding to typology-focused and geographically focused legal process.

You Have:

• 7+ years in financial crime investigations, financial intelligence, law enforcement, or intelligence analysis.
• Working depth in high risk typologies and the red flags associated with them.
• Demonstrated ability to build a case from ambiguous starting facts and document it defensibly.
• Hands-on data analysis capability.
• Experience assessing the quality of other investigators' work.
• Strong OSINT and public records research skills.
• Clear, economical writing.
• Experience interacting with law enforcement or regulatory bodies.
• Sound judgment and discretion with sensitive material.

Preferred Experience:

• Cross-border payments, money transmission, or remittance experience.
• Depth in one or more of: human trafficking and forced labor, sanctions evasion, terrorist financing, transnational fraud, professional money laundering.
• Blockchain analytics experience.
• Experience using AI tooling to accelerate research.
• Multi-jurisdictional exposure.
• Additional language capability relevant to Remitly corridors.
• CAMS, CFCS, CFE, or equivalent.

Our Benefits:

• Medical, Dental & Vision via Bupa
• Life Insurance & Disability
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) available for eligible employees
• Mental Health & Family Forming Benefits
• Continuing education and travel benefits

Our Connected Work Culture: Driving Innovation, Together. At Remitly, we believe that true innovation sparks when we come together. Our Connected Work Culture fosters dynamic in-person collaboration.

Remitly is an E-Verify Employer. We are dedicated to ensuring that our workplace offers equal employment opportunities to all employees and candidates, in full compliance with applicable laws and regulations. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.