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Posted Apr 29Financial Crime Analyst
at Bretton AI
United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- Build deep familiarity with the work you'll do at Bretton.
- Handle routine work independently and bring sharp questions to complex cases.
Requirements
- ABOUT BRETTON AI Bretton AI is the leading AI agent platform for financial services.
- You'll also work with the most advanced AI tooling in the industry.
- Bretton's AI does the routine work, such as pulling data, surfacing red flags, and drafting first-pass narratives, so you can spend your time doing what investigators do best: noticing what doesn't add up, asking the next question, and making the call.
- Edge cases you flag become new AI capabilities.
- You won't just be using the most sophisticated AI tooling in financial crime, you'll be the reason it gets better.
- If you want a front-row seat to the most consequential AI work happening in financial crime, this is it.
- WHAT YOU'LL DO - Investigate transactions, counterparties, and customer activity to figure out what's really going on - Work alerts using established AML procedures, separating false positives from genuine red flags - Use Bretton's AI agents to accelerate research, transaction analysis, and narrative drafting, then bring your own judgment to what the AI surfaces - Write clear, defensible narratives that hold up to quality assurance and regulatory scrutiny - Document your findings in the case management
- Your hands-on insights shape how our AI evolves.
- Whether you're early in your career or bring years of investigative experience, we want to hear from you. - A degree in finance, accounting, criminology, economics, business, law, political science, or a related analytical field, or equivalent professional
- You know when to dig deeper, when to escalate, and when to close - Comfort working independently in structured procedural environments.
- You can follow detailed instructions without losing the bigger picture - Genuine curiosity about how financial crime actually works and how to stop it - Comfort working alongside AI tools.
- BONUS POINTS - CAMS certification (Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist) or equivalent - Hands-on AML case investigation experience, including SAR drafting - Working knowledge of money laundering typologies, red flag indicators, and US Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) requirements -
- Experience training, calibrating, or onboarding analyst teams - Perspective from working across multiple institution types: bank, fintech, consultancy, BPO, or regulator - Familiarity with SQL or basic data analysis - Coursework or internship
- experience in financial regulation or banking
Additional details
- Companies like Robinhood, Mercury, and Gusto trust us to automate mission-critical work, starting with anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing investigations.
- THE ROLE Financial crime is one of the largest hidden problems in the global economy.
- You'll dig into transaction patterns, trace money across counterparties, and decide whether what you're looking at is a false alarm or something worth escalating.
- You'll also be the closest connection our Product and Engineering teams have to real-world investigations.
- What you notice in the work directly shapes what gets built next.
- This is real investigative work, on real cases, with real stakes.
- Month 2: Hit steady-state production with strong quality scores.
- Start contributing to procedural calibration discussions and product feedback loops.
- Month 3: Become a trusted contributor on the team.
- Strong performers are positioned for extended engagements and expanded scope as our financial crime team grows.