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Financial Crime Analyst - AML Expert

$75 - $100 per hour

Mercor

Job Description

Job Description

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .

Position: Financial Crime, AML & KYC Analyst
Type: Contract
Compensation: $75–$100/hour
Location: Remote
Commitment: 15 hours/week

Role Responsibilities

  • Adjudicate transaction-monitoring alerts using alert packets, KYC/CDD profiles , and transaction history. Document dispositions and draft SAR narratives as needed.
  • Review client onboarding and KYC packets for completeness. Identify and document cross-document discrepancies and produce remediation lists.
  • Resolve complex beneficial-ownership structures. Apply 10%/25% UBO thresholds effectively.
  • Adjudicate sanctions and adverse-media hits. Provide short rationales for true matches, false positives, or escalations.
  • Triage supervisory alert queues. Adjudicate card fraud and disputes. Assess flagged communications against trade records.

Qualifications

Must-Have

  • 3+ years hands-on in AML , financial-crime, KYC/CDD , sanctions screening, fraud/disputes, or transaction surveillance.
  • Working knowledge of FinCEN , FATF , OFAC frameworks, and SAR/CDD documentation standards .
  • Ability to write clear, defensible rationales.

Preferred

  • CAMS/ACAMS or CFE certification.
  • Experience in enhanced due diligence, entity unwinding, SQL , or transaction analytics.
  • Background in fintech or payments.

Assessment

  • A timed exercise involving a mock alert packet, disposition and SAR narrative , a KYC packet discrepancy and remediation list, and a batch of sanctions hits adjudication with rationale.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

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