Financial Crime Analyst, AML & KYC

🔥 49 minutes ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $75 - $100 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🚨 AML and Financial Crime

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Mercor

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2023

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $350M Series C - Mercor on 2025-10

Mercor is a company for which no descriptive text was provided in the input. Additional information (products, services, target customers, or industry specifics) is needed to create an accurate summary and select appropriate industries.

📋 Description

• Complete self-contained financial-crime and KYC analyst case exercises from mock files • Produce analyst deliverables graded against a rubric • Adjudicate transaction-monitoring alerts using alert packets, KYC/CDD profiles, and transaction histories • Document alert dispositions and draft SAR narratives where warranted • Review client onboarding and KYC packets for completeness and cross-document discrepancies • Produce remediation lists • Resolve multi-layer beneficial-ownership structures using 10%/25% UBO thresholds • Adjudicate sanctions and adverse-media hits as true matches, false positives, or escalations, with rationales • Triage supervisory alert queues • Adjudicate card fraud and disputes • Assess flagged communications against trade records • Complete a timed assessment involving mock alerts, KYC discrepancies, remediation, and sanctions-hit adjudication • Work on projects training and enhancing AI systems

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years hands-on experience in AML / financial-crime, KYC/CDD, sanctions screening, fraud/disputes, or transaction surveillance • Experience at a bank, fintech, payments company, or MSB • Working knowledge of FinCEN, FATF, and OFAC frameworks • Knowledge of SAR / CDD documentation standards • Clear, defensible written rationales • US-based • Must be an independent contractor • Unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates • CAMS/ACAMS or CFE preferred • Enhanced due diligence / entity unwinding preferred • SQL or transaction analytics preferred • Fintech / payments experience preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work • Flexible schedule; work can be completed on your own schedule • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise • Competitive pay • Opportunity to collaborate with leading researchers • Opportunity to help shape the next generation of AI systems • Referral bonus of up to $400 per successful referral • Reasonable accommodations upon request