Financial Crime, AML & KYC Analyst

Weekday AI; United States; Remote; USD 103,000 - 138,000; Part time

Job summary

Weekday AI is seeking an AML/KYC analyst for a remote, contract-based role in the United States. You will adjudicate alerts, draft SAR narratives, and review onboarding/KYC packets, ensuring accuracy and remediation where needed.

With 3+ years in AML/financial crime and knowledge of FinCEN/FATF/OFAC frameworks, you will provide clear, defensible rationales and contribute to a high-quality library of analyst work products.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Adjudicate AML transaction-monitoring alerts; draft SAR narratives when warranted.
• Review onboarding/KYC packets for completeness and identify discrepancies; produce remediation list.
• Resolve multi-layer beneficial-ownership structures and apply UBO thresholds.
• Adjudicate sanctions and adverse-media hits with concise rationales.
• Triage supervisory alert queues; adjudicate card fraud and disputes; assess trade-records.

Skills

AML experience

KYC/CDD knowledge

Sanctions screening

Clear written rationale

Fraud/disputes experience

Tools

SQL

Job description

This role is for one of our clients

Compensation: $75-$100 per hour

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 / eliminate) 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.

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.

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 will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution.
• Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise based on services rendered.
• Please note: We are unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time.