Remote AML Analyst: Financial Crime Specialist

Obsidian; New York (NY); Remote; USD 80,590,000 - 107,453,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work (US/UK/Canada/Australia/NZ

Job summary

Obsidian is building a high-quality library of realistic AML and KYC analyst work products. You will complete self-contained case exercises from mock files and produce the analyst deliverable for each—graded against a rubric.

Every client-style output ends as a draft. This timed exercise covers adjudicating alerts, reviewing onboarding/KYC packets, resolving multi-layer UBO structures, sanctions/adverse-media adjudication, and supervisory queue triage.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on AML/financial crime or related surveillance experience.
• Working knowledge of FinCEN/FATF/OFAC frameworks and SAR/CDD standards.
• Clear, defensible written rationales.

Responsibilities

• Adjudicate transaction-monitoring alerts and draft SAR narratives when warranted.
• Review onboarding/KYC packets for completeness and discrepancies; list remediation steps.
• Resolve multi-layer beneficial ownership structures and UBO thresholds.
• Adjudicate sanctions and adverse-media hits; triage supervisory alert queues.
• Assess fraud/disputes and flag relevant trade-record context.

Skills

AML experience

KYC/CDD knowledge

Sanctions screening

SAR writing

Tools

SQL

Job description

Obsidian is building a high-quality library of realistic AML and KYC analyst work products. You will complete self-contained case exercises from mock files and produce the analyst deliverable for each—graded against a rubric.

Every client-style output ends as a draft. This timed exercise covers adjudicating alerts, reviewing onboarding/KYC packets, resolving multi-layer UBO structures, sanctions/adverse-media adjudication, and supervisory queue triage.