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Financial Crime, AML & KYC Analyst

Listed pay: $75to 100 / hr

What the posting lists, in US dollars an hour, before anything Mercor deducts.

84 openings on this one listing.

How to apply
Platform
Mercor
Terms
Contract, part-time
Location
United States
Posted
· 1 month ago
Status
Open at the last check

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  1. The link opens this role on Mercor. Sign up and apply from there.
  2. Upload a resume, complete the assessments the role asks for and verify your work authorisation.
  3. An AI interview of about 20 minutes. Mercor says it usually takes 2 to 4 weeks to hear back.
  4. If Mercor hires you, you are paid weekly, on the Wednesday after each work week, via Stripe. Mercor says first payouts are held for 7 days.
  5. The work is paid by the hour, at the $75–100 this posting lists.
  6. Remote, but this posting limits it to United States.

What the work is

About the work We'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 / escalate) with a short rationale each.

  • 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.

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

From the Mercor listing.