Senior Data Analyst, New Account Risk

About this role

<h2><strong>About the Role</strong></h2> <p>At Chime, the moment someone becomes a member is everything—it’s where trust begins, and where bad actors try to slip in. As an L4 Risk Analyst on the New Account Risk team, you will help protect Chime’s enrollment funnel from fraud while ensuring every legitimate applicant gets a fast, frictionless path to membership. You’ll work closely with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Compliance, and Operations, digging into data to spot emerging fraud patterns and turning your findings into policies, dashboards, and recommendations the team can act on.</p> <p>Your work will directly support the team’s two headline goals for 2026: improving the Funnel Enrollment Rate (FER) and reducing the post-enrollment synthetic identity theft rate.</p> <p>The base salary offered for this role and level of experience will begin at $133,000.00 and up to $185,000.00. 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.</p> <h2><strong>In this role, you can expect to</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Analyze enrollment and application data to identify opportunities to reduce synthetic identity and ID theft losses, with minimal impact to legitimate applicants (35%)</li> <li>Support the design, testing, and monitoring of new account risk policies and decision rules, partnering with Product and Engineering to ship improvements (30%)</li> <li>Build and maintain dashboards and reports that track Funnel Enrollment Rate, fraud loss, and approval/false-positive rates against team goals (20%)</li> <li>Monitor the performance of third-party vendor models and risk signals used at enrollment, flagging anomalies and trends to senior team members (10%)</li> <li>Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to fulfill ad-hoc analysis requests as needed (5%)</li> </ul> <h2><strong>To thrive in this role, you have</strong></h2> <ul> <li>3+ years of experience in a Fraud, Risk, Compliance, or Investigations role, ideally with exposure to new account enrollment, identity fraud, or KYC/CIP</li> <li>Working knowledge of identity fraud domains such as synthetic identity and identity theft, and an interest in the threat landscape that targets enrollment funnels</li> <li>Strong SQL skills; familiarity with Python, R, or a similar analytical language preferred</li> <li>Experience with BI tools such as Looker, Hex, or equivalent</li> <li>Advanced Microsoft Excel skills</li> <li>Comfort using AI tools (e.g., Glean, Claude) to accelerate day-to-day analysis</li> <li>Exceptional detail-orientation and organizational skills; you’re eager to solve challenging analytical problems for our members</li> <li>The drive to work in a fast-paced environment and meet ambitious deadlines while ensuring flawless completion</li> <li>Bachelor’s degree in a quantitatively rigorous discipline like engineering, statistics, math, or economics is preferred</li> <li>A passion for Chime’s mission</li> </ul> <p>#LI-Onsite <span data-sheets-root="1">#LI-EI1</span></p><div class="content-conclusion"><h2><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>A little about us</strong></span></h2> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">At Chime, we believe that everyone can achieve financial progress. We created Chime—a financial technology company, not a bank*—on the premise that core banking services should be helpful, easy, and free. Through our user-friendly tools and intuitive platforms, we empower our members to take control of their finances and work towards their goals. Whether it's starting a savings account, purchasing a first car or home, launching a business, or pursuing higher education, we're proud to have helped millions unlock their financial potential.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">We're a team of problem solvers, dreamers, and builders with one shared obsession: our members. From day one, Chimers have worked tirelessly to out-hustle and out-execute competitors to bring our mission to life. Their grit and determination inspire us to work harder every day to deliver the very best experience possible. We each bring an owner's mindset to our work, refusing to be outdone and holding ourselves accountable to meet and exceed the highest bars for our teams, our company, and our members.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">We believe in being bold, dreaming big, and taking risks, while also working together, embracing our diverse perspectives, and giving each other honest feedback. Our culture remains deeply entrepreneurial, encouraging every Chimer to see themselves as stewards of our mission to help everyday Americans unlock their financial progress. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">We know that to achieve our mission, we must earn and keep people's trust—so we hold ourselves to the highest standards of integrity in everything we do. These aren't just words on a wall—our values are embedded in every aspect of our business, serving as a north star that guides us as we work to help millions achieve their financial potential.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Because if we don't—who…