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Transaction Monitoring Jobs

197 open roles across 91 employers · median posted pay $95,495 (n=34)

Lemieux & Associates · Louisville, Jefferson County, United States

  • Onsite
  • $52K–$67K
  • Transaction Monitoring
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What the work is

Transaction monitoring is the detection layer: scenario and rule design, threshold tuning, above- and below-the-line testing, model validation, data lineage, and the alert operations that sit on top of it. It is where financial crime compliance becomes an engineering and statistics problem as much as a regulatory one.

People arrive here from two directions — from alert investigations, learning why the scenario fired, and from data or model backgrounds, learning what the regulation requires the scenario to prove. Progression runs through tuning ownership, optimisation programmes, and model risk governance, where documentation quality is the deliverable.

Hiring is driven by system migrations and by examiner criticism of coverage or tuning evidence, both of which create defined programmes rather than steady-state roles. The employers hiring for it right now are listed below, straight from the index.