Financial Crimes Intelligence Manager

The role

The Financial Crimes Intelligence Manager leads investigators and analysts within the FIU. This person manages investigative workload and quality, supports complex investigations and SAR decisioning, and develops intelligence to mitigate financial-crime risk.

What you will do

• Lead the FIU team by assigning work, managing queues, reviewing casework, monitoring quality, and providing training
• Oversee complex alerts, investigations, unusual-activity referrals, and relationship decisions
• Ensure the FIU team collects, analyzes, and identifies investigation trends and emerging threats
• Support investigative and SAR decisions using permitted sources
• Translate intelligence findings into recommendations for monitoring, controls, procedures, training, and risk decisions
• Maintain effective governance, confidentiality, documentation, and regulatory knowledge
• Provide day to day oversight of a diverse investigations team
• Partner with internal stakeholders to optimize automated transaction monitoring systems
• Design, test, and deploy new scenario rules and detection models
• Leverage internal tools to analyze transactional data and reduce false-positive rates

Required qualifications

• 5 - 7 years of experience in financial-crimes intelligence, AML investigations, fraud, sanctions, law enforcement, regulatory compliance, or a related financial-services field
• 2 - 5 years of management experience leading, mentoring, and overseeing investigators or analysts
• Experience with complex investigations, intelligence products, typology development, network analysis, or financial-crimes risk assessments
• Experience managing high-volume workloads, queues, case reviews, competing priorities, and operational or investigative escalations
• Strong analytical judgment, including the ability to evaluate incomplete information and distinguish fact, inference, and unresolved gaps
• Clear communication, sound confidentiality judgment, collaboration, adaptability, and the ability to work independently in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment

Nice to have

• Experience with BaaS, payments, fintech, digital assets, correspondent banking, or other complex financial products
• Experience with OSINT, adverse-media research, link analysis, blockchain analytics, investigative tools, or a relevant certification such as CAMS, CFE, CFCS, or CAFP

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Equity grants
• Cash bonus
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Life
• 401k Matching
• Wellness benefits, including FSA, HSA and HRA
• Paid parental leave
• Flexible vacation policy, including PTO and paid holidays

About the company

Lead is a banking infrastructure platform that enables fintechs to offer compliant, programmable services like payments, lending, and digital assets at scale. It is an API-first, developer-focused partner bank.