AML Analyst - Financial Crime Expert

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obsidianNew York (NY)

SENIORITY

Senior

SALARY

$75-100/hr

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About the role

About the workWe're building a high-quality library of realistic financial-crime and KYC analyst work products. You'll complete self-contained case exercises from mock files (no live-system or client-data access) and produce the analyst deliverable for each — the same work you'd do on the job, graded against a rubric. Every client-style output ends as a draft.
What you'll do: Adjudicate transaction-monitoring alerts from an alert packet + KYC/CDD profile + transaction history; document the disposition and draft the SAR narrative where warranted. Review client onboarding / KYC packets for completeness and cross-document discrepancies; produce the remediation list. Resolve multi-layer beneficial-ownership structures and apply 10%/25% UBO thresholds. Adjudicate sanctions and adverse-media hits (true match / false positive / escal ... ). Triage supervisory alert queues; adjudicate card fraud & disputes; assess flagged communications against trade records. You're a fit if you have 3+ years hands-on in AML / financial-crime, KYC/CDD, sanctions screening, fraud/disputes, or transaction surveillance at a bank, fintech, payments company, or MSB. Working knowledge of FinCEN / FATF / OFAC frameworks and SAR / CDD documentation standards. Clear, defensible written rationales.
Nice to have: CAMS/ACAMS or CFE; enhanced due diligence / entity unwinding; SQL or transaction analytics; fintech / payments experience. Assessment A timed exercise: a mock alert packet → disposition + SAR narrative; a KYC packet → discrepancy & remediation list; a batch of sanctions hits → adjudication with rationale. DetailsContract, hourly (~15 hrs/week), remote (US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand). Pay $75-100/hr based on experience.

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