Senior AML Risk Investigator

Precision Labs; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 122,000 - 152,000; Full time

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Job summary

Mercury is expanding its AML investigations team to strengthen bank partner RFIs, case management, and escalation workflows. You will detect suspicious activity, manage complex investigations, and help build scalable monitoring and reporting pipelines to protect customers and the financial ecosystem.

You will work closely with internal teams and partners to ensure accurate risk assessments, timely action, and clear documentation of findings for SAR considerations.

Qualifications

• Experience identifying money laundering and financial crime in fintech or banking.
• Fluent with ACH, checks, debit/credit cards and wires.
• Understand business banking landscape and international activity.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Empathy when communicating with users.

Responsibilities

• Review AML and financial crime alerts in transaction monitoring queues and take action.
• Investigate and respond to RFIs from partner banks with clear AML reviews.
• Document findings and escalate unusual activity to partners for SAR consideration.
• Lock or close accounts when necessary and manage case statuses.
• Develop understanding of expected activity for each user type and improve processes.

Skills

AML investigations

Fraud detection

Transaction monitoring

RFIs

SARs

Banking knowledge

Job description

Mercury is expanding its AML investigations team to strengthen bank partner RFIs, case management, and escalation workflows. You will detect suspicious activity, manage complex investigations, and help build scalable monitoring and reporting pipelines to protect customers and the financial ecosystem.

You will work closely with internal teams and partners to ensure accurate risk assessments, timely action, and clear documentation of findings for SAR considerations.