Senior AML Analyst

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve AML and financial crime transaction monitoring SOPs
• Partner with Analytics, Engineering, and Product teams to evaluate alert logic and tune thresholds
• Lead the testing, deployment, and tuning of agentic transaction monitoring and investigation solutions
• Investigate complex suspicious activity and prepare high-quality SARs and UARs
• Supervise and quality-check alert review and investigative output, including AI-assisted output
• Synthesize monitoring performance data and define AML KPIs and KRIs
• Lead governance preparation for oversight forums and support bank partner deliverables
• Train and mentor analysts on investigations and money laundering typologies

Requirements

• 3+ years of AML/BSA and transaction monitoring experience in fintech, payments, or banking
• Demonstrated ownership of end-to-end AML programs or work streams
• Deep knowledge of money laundering typologies and emerging financial crime trends
• Hands-on experience evaluating alert logic and tuning transaction monitoring rules
• Comfort working with AI-assisted or agentic tooling
• Solid grasp of the BSA/AML regulatory framework (USA PATRIOT Act, OFAC, SAR requirements)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• CAMS or CFE certification
• Experience deploying or tuning AI, automation, or agentic tooling in compliance
• Experience with OSINT tooling, SQL, or Snowflake
• Experience with card issuing, payments, or sponsor bank relationships
• Background in high-risk verticals like crypto-adjacent businesses

About the Company

Lithic is the modern card issuing and processing platform empowering ambitious financial companies to build the future of payments. Their infrastructure powers card programs for over 100 innovative clients, including fintechs reimagining credit and digital banking.