Know Your Worth / Fintech & financial services
Financial technology careers connect product design, software, operations, evidence, and institutional review. The stakes often come from access to money or sensitive records. Separate technical and analytical responsibilities from regulated decision authority, then compare employment support with the full costs of independent delivery.
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All careersEmployee references are annual US median wages for the cited BLS occupation, which may cover several career paths. Freelance examples add $15,000 for benefits and $20,000 for business costs, then divide by 1,200 billable hours a year. Annual figures are rounded to the nearest $1,000 and hourly figures to the nearest dollar. Figures are before personal taxes, with no percentage fees. Open a guide to see the source or adjust the assumptions in the calculator.
BLS · May 2025 · Management analysts
Reviews financial activity under approved anti-money-laundering procedures, organizing evidence and escalation without treating automated alerts as conclusions about customers.
View career → Anti-money laundering analystBLS · May 2025 · Database Architects
Builds controlled financial-data pipelines with traceable transformations, access boundaries, and reconciliation checks so downstream teams can understand where their records originate.
View career → Banking data engineerBLS · May 2025 · Software Developers
Builds and tests blockchain software components, focusing on protocol behavior, authorization, observability, and failure cases rather than promising token value or investment returns.
View career → Blockchain protocol developerBLS · May 2025 · Project management specialists
Coordinates card-program delivery across product, operations, processors, and compliance owners, making launch dependencies and ongoing service responsibilities explicit.
View career → Card program managerBLS · May 2025 · Management analysts
Organizes disputed-payment evidence and deadlines under approved payment-network processes, maintaining clear records without assuming every dispute can or should be contested.
View career → Chargeback analystBLS · May 2025 · Computer systems analysts
Helps financial institutions configure banking systems, migrate approved data, validate workflows, and prepare operational handovers under institutional control and review.
View career → Core banking implementation consultantBLS · May 2025 · Financial and investment analysts
Evaluates credit-related evidence and portfolio patterns under approved institutional models, explaining assumptions, uncertainty, and decision limitations rather than promising accurate individual predictions.
View career → Credit risk analystBLS · May 2025 · Management analysts
Reviews onboarding information and risk evidence within a financial institution's approved customer due diligence process, documenting gaps and decisions for authorized reviewers.
View career → Customer due diligence analystBLS · May 2025 · Web and digital interface designers
Designs understandable banking interfaces around user goals, financial comprehension, accessibility, and trustworthy communication of balances, permissions, and transaction status.
View career → Digital banking UX designerBLS · May 2025 · Technical writers
Documents financial APIs so authorized integrators understand authentication, data contracts, lifecycle events, and error recovery without relying on undocumented operational assumptions.
View career → Financial API technical writerBLS · May 2025 · Management analysts
Organizes complex financial-crime evidence, timelines, and investigative questions within authorized procedures, maintaining source traceability and careful separation between facts and hypotheses.
View career → Financial crime investigatorBLS · May 2025 · Information Security Analysts
Examines how financial information is collected, accessed, shared, and retained, turning documented requirements into reviewable controls under authorized privacy and legal ownership.
View career → Financial data privacy analystBLS · May 2025 · Accountants and auditors
Investigates differences between financial records, transaction events, and ledger balances, documenting corrections and unresolved questions under appropriate accounting and operational review.
View career → Financial reconciliation analystBLS · May 2025 · Computer systems analysts
Automates repeatable financial reporting steps while preserving reconciliations, review ownership, traceability, and the distinction between a generated report and an approved financial statement.
View career → Financial reporting automation consultantBLS · May 2025 · Computer systems analysts
Identifies barriers in financial-service journeys through authorized accessibility testing, clear remediation evidence, and collaboration with teams responsible for sensitive user interactions.
View career → Financial services accessibility consultantBLS · May 2025 · Computer systems analysts
Helps financial-service clients adopt systems through approved onboarding, configuration, training, and handover, making responsibilities around identity information and account access explicit.
View career → Fintech customer onboarding consultantBLS · May 2025 · Information Security Analysts
Investigates security exposure in financial systems through authorized monitoring, evidence analysis, and escalation, keeping customer data and operational responsibilities within approved boundaries.
View career → Fintech cybersecurity analystBLS · May 2025 · Market research analysts
Designs acquisition and activation experiments for financial products, aligning claims, audience targeting, consent, and measurement with approved product and compliance requirements.
View career → Fintech growth marketerBLS · May 2025 · Operations Research Analysts
Investigates suspicious transaction patterns using evidence, documented procedures, and careful escalation while distinguishing indicators from proof of wrongdoing.
View career → Fraud analystBLS · May 2025 · Financial and investment analysts
Analyzes insurance-related data and pricing assumptions within approved actuarial and governance processes, distinguishing analytical support from authority to set regulated product terms.
View career → Insurance pricing analystBLS · May 2025 · Management analysts
Translates insurance workflows into system requirements, connecting policy administration, claims handling, customer communication, and evidence needed by authorized operational and compliance reviewers.
View career → Insurance technology business analystBLS · May 2025 · Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers
Tests lending software for reliable workflows, accurate statuses, access boundaries, and consistent implementation of approved rules without treating passing tests as lending-policy approval.
View career → Lending platform QA analystBLS · May 2025 · Management analysts
Guides merchants through approved account onboarding, documentation, integration readiness, and operational questions while keeping underwriting and compliance decisions with authorized reviewers.
View career → Merchant onboarding specialistBLS · May 2025 · Data Scientists
Examines financial models for conceptual weaknesses, data issues, and misuse, documenting validation evidence and limitations for independent review and governance.
View career → Model risk analystBLS · May 2025 · Software Developers
Builds authorized banking-data integrations with attention to consent, authentication, data consistency, and failure handling across different institutions and API contracts.
View career → Open banking engineerBLS · May 2025 · Management analysts
Tracks payment exceptions, reconciliation breaks, and operational handoffs so financial teams can investigate issues and maintain reliable transaction records.
View career → Payments operations analystBLS · May 2025 · Management analysts
Shapes payment experiences around merchant needs, transaction reliability, operational constraints, and clear ownership of exceptions across the payment lifecycle.
View career → Payments product managerBLS · May 2025 · Computer systems analysts
Designs systems that help organizations collect compliance evidence, apply approved rules, and preserve reviewability without turning software implementation into a legal compliance guarantee.
View career → Regulatory technology solutions architectBLS · May 2025 · Financial and investment analysts
Supports organizational cash and liquidity planning by reconciling financial information, modeling scenarios, and documenting assumptions for authorized treasury decision makers.
View career → Treasury analystBLS · May 2025 · Web and digital interface designers
Designs financial-service tools that make account information, user permissions, fees, and uncertainty understandable without implying that interface clarity removes investment risk.
View career → Wealth technology product designer