Sr. Analyst, AML Governance

About the Role

We are hiring a Senior Analyst for AML Governance & Advisory within Financial Crimes & Identity. This team owns the governance framework supporting Chime's BSA/AML and OFAC compliance programs, ensuring that policies, procedures, controls, and reporting structures align with regulatory expectations, partner bank contractual obligations, internal risk appetite, and evolving financial crime risks.

This position requires someone who thrives in a fast-paced, high-growth environment and can balance regulatory rigor with operational agility. The ideal candidate is proactive, assertive, and solutions-oriented, capable of driving initiatives forward, challenging the status quo, and identifying opportunities to automate and streamline governance processes.

The analyst partners cross-functionally with Compliance, Risk, Legal, Financial Crimes’ Operations, Product, and Engineering to drive effective oversight, documentation, and continuous program maturity.

You will partner cross-functionally with Compliance, Risk, Legal, Financial Crimes Operations, Product, and Engineering to drive effective oversight, documentation, and continuous program maturity.

The base salary offered for this role and level of experience will begin at $112,000.00 and up to $155,000.00. Full-time employees are also eligible for a bonus, competitive equity package, and benefits. The actual base salary offered may be higher, depending on your location, skills, qualifications, and experience.

In this role, you can expect to

• Lead and enhance governance frameworks supporting the BSA/AML and OFAC programs, ensuring clear ownership, accountability, and effective oversight.
• Drive governance routines, executive and committee reporting, and escalation processes in a fast-paced regulatory environment.
• Track, analyze, and report on program risks, issues, remediation plans, and control effectiveness to promote transparency and informed decision-making.
• Partner with Financial Crimes and Risk teams to support enterprise-wide AML and sanctions risk assessments, document controls and control owners, and strengthen the control framework.
• Draft, update, and maintain BSA/AML and OFAC policies, standards, and procedures in alignment with regulatory requirements and bank partner obligations.
• Monitor regulatory and guidance developments, assess applicability and impact to Chime, and drive the resulting policy and control updates to completion.
• Prepare comprehensive materials for regulatory exams, bank partner reviews, and internal/external audits, maintaining audit-ready documentation repositories.
• Coordinate audit and exam responses, and drive remediation efforts with clear milestones, measurable outcomes, and strong follow-through.
• Support issues management end to end — from issue intake and root cause analysis through corre