Senior Fraud Risk Manager
New York · New York City, United States (US) · USD 143,000-214,000 · 7+ years experience · Posted Sep 29, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 7+ years experience
- Location
- New York · New York City, United States (US)
- Salary
- USD 143,000-214,000
About the role
- We are looking for an experienced Senior Analyst, Blockchain Investigations & Fraud Intelligence to join FIT.
- This is first and foremost a blockchain investigations role requiring significant hands-on expertise tracing digital assets across complex blockchain ecosystems.
- The Senior Analyst will directly manage one Analyst and will be expected to serve as a subject-matter resource for blockchain investigations and analytical methodology across FIT.
Responsibilities
- Lead and conduct complex blockchain investigations and transaction tracing across multiple wallets, counterparties, entities, blockchains, tokens, protocols, and digital-asset ecosystems.
- Trace the origin, movement, conversion, layering, consolidation, and ultimate disposition of digital assets, including activity spanning multiple intermediaries and blockchain environments.
- Conduct investigations using tools such as Chainalysis Reactor, TRM Labs, Elliptic, or comparable blockchain intelligence platforms, while understanding the methodologies and limitations underlying platform-generated attribution.
- Analyze activity involving centralized exchanges, self-hosted wallets, decentralized exchanges, cross-chain bridges, mixers, privacy-enhancing technologies, DeFi protocols, smart contracts, stablecoins, NFTs, OTC activity, gambling platforms, and other relevant ecosystems.
- Reconstruct complex transaction flows and create clear fund-flow diagrams, transaction maps, timelines, and visualizations that allow investigators and nontechnical stakeholders to understand the movement of assets.
- Conduct and support investigations involving internal and external fraud, employee misconduct, insider threats, vendor and third-party misconduct, collusion, conflicts of interest, asset misappropriation, unauthorized access, credential misuse, and other significant fraud risks.
- Combine blockchain findings with off-chain evidence to develop a comprehensive investigative picture rather than treating blockchain activity in isolation.
- Analyze appropriately authorized information including system and access logs, authentication records, audit trails, customer-account activity, KYC/KYB information, transaction records, payment information, case-management records, vendor information, and relevant security telemetry.
- Prepare clear, concise, and well-supported blockchain investigation reports, investigative memoranda, executive summaries, transaction-flow diagrams, link charts, timelines, and other analytical products.
- Directly manage and develop one Junior Analyst, including work allocation, coaching, technical development, quality assurance, and review of analytical work product.
Requirements
- 7+ years of relevant investigative or analytical experience, with meaningful professional experience specifically conducting cryptocurrency or blockchain investigations.
- Demonstrated hands-on expertise independently conducting complex blockchain tracing investigations, rather than solely reviewing blockchain alerts or commercial risk scores.
- Advanced proficiency with one or more blockchain intelligence platforms such as Chainalysis Reactor, TRM Labs, Elliptic, or comparable technology.
- Strong understanding of how blockchain intelligence platforms derive attribution, clustering, exposure, and risk information—and the limitations associated with those methodologies.
- Demonstrated understanding of blockchain fundamentals, including wallets and addresses, transactions, UTXO and account-based models, tokens, smart contracts, block explorers, transaction fees, confirmations, and blockchain-specific transactional structures.
- Strong understanding of digital-asset ecosystems including centralized exchanges, self-hosted wallets, DeFi, DEXs, stablecoins, cross-chain bridges, mixers, privacy-enhancing mechanisms, and other relevant technologies.
- Demonstrated ability to trace assets across multiple chains, protocols, and intermediaries and recognize when technical limitations prevent definitive continuity or attribution.
- Strong knowledge of fraud-investigation principles including corroboration, source evaluation, evidence preservation, timeline development, hypothesis testing, and documentation.
- Experience analyzing large or complex datasets and familiarity with tools such as SQL, advanced Excel, Python, Splunk, or comparable data-analysis technologies.
- Demonstrated experience mentoring, supervising, or reviewing the work of junior analysts or investigators.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience conducting blockchain investigations within a cryptocurrency exchange, blockchain analytics company, law-enforcement agency, regulatory organization, financial institution, intelligence function, or investigative consulting environment.
- Experience investigating digital-asset matters involving fraud proceeds, theft, account compromise, insider activity, social engineering, asset tracing, or complex cross-chain movement.
- Experience supporting asset recovery, law-enforcement referrals, subpoenas/legal process, civil litigation, regulatory inquiries, or other matters requiring defensible blockchain analysis.
- Experience investigating insider threats, employee misconduct, unauthorized access, data exfiltration, credential compromise, vendor fraud, conflicts of interest, or trusted-party abuse.
- Experience with OSINT, digital forensics, enterprise logs, security telemetry, or identity and access-management information.
- Experience creating custom blockchain analytics through APIs, SQL, Python, blockchain explorers, node data, or other raw-data sources, rather than relying exclusively on commercial graphical interfaces.
- Relevant blockchain-specific training or certifications, including certifications associated with Chainalysis, TRM Labs, or comparable blockchain-analysis platforms.
- Professional certifications such as CFE, CFCS, CAMS, GIAC, or comparable investigative, fraud, financial-crime, cybersecurity, or intelligence credentials.
Benefits
- Performance bonus
- Long-term incentives
- Medical benefits
- Financial benefits
Skills
- Chainalysis Reactor
- TRM Labs
- Elliptic
- SQL
- Advanced Excel
- Python
- Splunk
- OSINT
- Digital Forensics
