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Financial Crime, AML & KYC Analyst

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United States$75–$100 per hour
Hiring companyMercor
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About the role

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.

Details

Contract, hourly (~15 hrs/week), remote, US-based. Pay $75-100/hr based on experience.

Contract and Payment Terms

  • You will be engaged as an independent contractor.
  • This is a fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule.
  • Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.
  • Your work at Mercor will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution.

Responsibilities

  • 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 / escalate) with a short rationale each.
  • Triage supervisory alert queues; adjudicate card fraud & disputes; assess flagged communications against trade records.

Required skills

  • 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.

Preferred skills

  • CAMS/ACAMS or CFE; enhanced due diligence / entity unwinding; SQL or transaction analytics; fintech / payments experience.

Assessment requirements

A timed exercise: a mock alert packet → disposition + SAR narrative; a KYC packet → discrepancy & remediation list; a batch of sanctions hits → adjudication with rationale.

Eligibility

Work arrangement: Fully remote

Eligible countries: United States

  • Please note: We are unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time.

Compensation details

$75–$100 per hour.

  • Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise based on services rendered.
More about the hiring companyMercor
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