Principal Analyst, Risk Monitoring

Senior Risk Monitoring Analyst

Join FINRA's Risk Monitoring team and play a meaningful role in protecting investors and maintaining market integrity. As a Senior Risk Monitoring Analyst, you'll work at the forefront of financial regulatory oversight — engaging directly with complex, high-profile member firms, shaping regulatory intelligence, and mentoring the next generation of risk professionals. This is a high-visibility, senior-level position that offers both strategic influence and hands-on impact.

What You'll Do

Lead risk monitoring activities for complex and elevated-risk member firms, exercising independent judgment with the support of a Risk Monitoring Director

Identify emerging and existing risks across assigned firms, coordinating with specialists and internal teams to execute a comprehensive monitoring strategy

Collaborate cross-functionally with internal departments to analyze regulatory developments, communicate findings, and deliver actionable recommendations

Mentor and coach junior staff, helping to build a stronger, more capable risk monitoring team

Take on leadership roles in special projects and technology initiatives that advance the department's mission

Represent FINRA's values through professional conduct, collaborative engagement, and a commitment to investor protection and market integrity — both in-person and virtually

Required Qualifications

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field — or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience
• Demonstrated analytical experience in the financial industry, including the ability to absorb regulatory developments and apply them to complex business models
• Proven experience with one or more core industry risk areas, such as Fraud and Deception, Money Laundering, or Market Risk
• FINRA Securities Industry Essentials (SIE) certification, or an acceptable industry equivalent — required upon hire or within 16 months of the start date of the assigned SIE training cohort

Knowledge

• Advanced knowledge of FINRA's risk fundamentals
• Intermediate-to-advanced knowledge of securities rules and regulations
• Intermediate-to-advanced knowledge of firm business models, business lines, customer bases, products, and services
• Intermediate knowledge of U.S. GAAP accounting standards

Skills

• Strong ability to engage effectively with senior business management and cross-functional teams across multiple locations
• Intermediate written and verbal communication, financial analysis, and research skills
• Self-starter with the ability to manage complex, concurrent, and sometimes unstructured assignments with autonomy and independent judgment
• Intermediate-to-advanced ability to analyze internal and external data to assess member firm risk and develop appropriate regulatory responses
• Proactive, solutions-oriented, and energized by collaboration and the open exchange of ideas
• Intermediate-to-advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word
• Intermediate-to-advanced quantitative and analytical problem-solving skills, including the ability to organize and synthesize large volumes of information

Preferred Qualifications

• Graduate degree (MBA or JD)
• Relevant industry certification(s) beyond the SIE (e.g., CFA, CFE, CAMS, Series licenses)

Work Conditions:

• Hybrid work environment, with defined in-person presence requirements.

For work that is performed in Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA, CO, FL, TX, IL, PA, MA, MD, VA, Washington, DC, NY and NJ, please refer to the chart below for the salary range for the corresponding location. FINRA complies with all state and local pay transparency laws and regulations requiring the disclosure of salary ranges for the position. In addition to location, actual compensation is based on various factors, including but not limited to, the candidate's skill set, level of experience, education, and market considerations.

Los Angeles, CA: Minimum Salary $107,707, Maximum Salary $161,561

San Francisco, CA: Minimum Salary $113,093, Maximum Salary $169,639

CO/FL/TX: Minimum Salary $97,700, Maximum Salary $176,100

IL/PA: Minimum Salary $107,500, Maximum Salary $194,100

MA/MD/VA/Washington, DC: Minimum Salary $112,300 Maximum Salary $202,500

NY/NJ: Minimum Salary $112,300, Maximum Salary $211,400

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To be considered for this position, please submit an application. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.

The information provided above has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work of the position. It is not a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required.

Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Non-exempt employees are also eligible for overtime pay in accordance with federal, state, or local law. As part of its dedication to employee wellness, FINRA provides comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance. Additional insurance includes basic life, accidental death and dismemberment, supplemental life, spouse/domestic partner and dependent life, and spouse/domestic partner and dependent accidental death and dismemberment, short- and long-term disability, long-term care, business travel accident, disability and legal. FINRA offers immediate participation and vesting in a 401(k) plan with company match and eligibility for participation in an additional FINRA-funded retirement contribution, tuition reimbursement, commuter benefits, and other benefits that support employee wellness, such as adoption assistance, backup family care, surrogacy benefits, employee assistance, and wellness programs.

Time Off and Paid Leave*

FINRA encourages its employees to focus on their health and wellness in many ways, including through a generous time-off program of 15 days of paid time off, 5 personal days and 9 sick days, unless otherwise required by law (all pro-rated in the first year). Additionally, we are proud to support our communities by providing two volunteer service days (based on full-time schedule). Other paid leave includes military leave, jury duty leave, bereavement leave, voting and election official leave for federal, state or local primary and general elections, care of a family member leave (available after 90 days of employment); and childbirth and parental leave (available after 90 days of employment). Full-time employees receive nine paid holidays.

*Based on full-time schedule

Important Information

FINRA's Code of Conduct imposes restrictions on employees' investments and requires financial disclosures that are uniquely related to our role as a securities regulator. FINRA employees are required to disclose to FINRA all brokerage accounts that they maintain, and those in which they control trading or have a financial interest (including any trust account of which they are a trustee or beneficiary and all accounts of a spouse, domestic partner or minor child who lives with the employee) and to authorize their broker-dealers to provide FINRA with duplicate statements for all of those accounts. All of those accounts are subject to the Code's investment and securities account restrictions, and new employees must comply with those investment restrictions—including disposing of any security issued by a company on FINRA's Prohibited Company List or obtaining a written waiver from their Executive Vice President—by the date they begin employment with FINRA. Employees may only maintain securities accounts that must be disclosed to FINRA at one or more securities firms that provide an electronic feed (e-feed) of data to FINRA, and must move securities accounts from other securities firms to a firm that provides an e-feed within three months of beginning employment.

You can read more about these restrictions here.

As standard practice, employees must also execute FINRA's Employee Confidentiality and Invention Assignment Agreement without qualification or modification and comply with the company's policy on nepotism.

Search Firm Representatives

Please be advised that FINRA is not seeking assistance or accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for this employment opportunity. Regardless of past practice, a valid written agreement and task order must be in place before any resumes are submitted to FINRA. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at FINRA without a valid written agreement and task order in place will be deemed the sole property of FINRA and no fee will be paid in the event that person is hired by FINRA.

FINRA is an Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard