AML/KYC Analyst – CDD, EDD & Financial Crimes Compliance Analyst

Location: United States; candidates must verify eligibility to work in the United States. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Salary: $18.75–$35.75 per hour.

Company

hirify.global provides audit, tax, advisory, consulting, and other professional services through hirify.global LLP and hirify.global Advisory LLC, serving financial services clients through a global network.

What you will do

• Review and investigate alerts and potentially suspicious activity, conduct enhanced due diligence reviews, make risk-based SAR recommendations, and prepare SARs under supervision and quality assurance.
• Conduct periodic holistic reviews of higher-risk individuals and entities.
• Investigate potential matches against sanctions lists.
• Use information gathering, data analysis, regulatory knowledge, and logical reasoning to assess suspicious activity and financial crime risk.
• Support financial crime consulting services for banks, money service businesses, third-party payment providers, and FinTechs.

Requirements

• High School Diploma required.
• At least 1 year of experience in financial crime compliance, retail banking, commercial banking, or a global diversified financial services organization required.
• Knowledge of money-laundering laws and regulations, including the BSA, USA PATRIOT Act, OFAC requirements, and Suspicious Activity Reporting.
• Knowledge of client and transactional monitoring processes.
• Strong writing, analytical, research, communication, problem-solving, strategic-thinking, and reasoning skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and online research systems, including the Internet.
• Ability to multitask, complete projects on time, adapt to changing assignments, and make decisions under pressure with limited information.
• Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively with teams in different locations, communicate effectively across organizational levels, and maintain integrity and professionalism.
• Ability to interpret information and data, develop recommendations, collaborate cross-functionally, use data-driven insights, anticipate needs, draw conclusions, and adapt to changing demands.

Nice to have

• Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree.
• CAMS or another relevant professional certification.
• Experience with AML and financial crime investigations, customer due diligence, or sanctions screening reviews.
• Experience with transaction monitoring, customer risk-rating, or case-management platforms such as Actimize, Verafin, Fiserv, FCRM, Jack Henry Yellow Hammer, or Patriot Officer.
• General banking compliance knowledge and experience in professional services or project-based environments.
• Experience with financial crime technology platforms such as CLEAR, LexisNexis, or World-Check.
• Prior financial crime consulting experience.
• Bilingual Spanish.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employee position with a comprehensive total rewards package.
• Flexible approach intended to support balance between work and personal life.
• Inclusive culture centered on Care, Trust, Courage, Stewardship, diversity, ethics, and integrity.
• Career coaching and structured support for professional growth.
• Equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodation support are provided.