Remote | Compliance & Financial Crime Specialist — $80–$100/hour

We are sharing a specialised consulting opportunity for experienced compliance and financial-crime professionals to contribute practical expertise that will help shape upcoming engagements across AML, KYC, sanctions, transaction monitoring, investigations, regulatory compliance, and assurance.

This initial research intake is designed to capture how compliance professionals actually work in practice — including day-to-day workflows, tools, decision points, specialist areas, escalation paths, and the less visible aspects of the profession that are often missed in conventional descriptions. Insights from the intake will help inform the structure and scope of future compliance-focused projects.

Key Responsibilities

Compliance Workflow Research

• Complete an approximately 15-minute written professional intake
• Describe your current or recent compliance responsibilities and day-to-day workflows
• Explain how your time is typically divided across core activities
• Identify the processes, controls, and decision points most important to your role
• Provide practical examples that reflect how compliance work is performed in real professional environments

AML, KYC & Financial Crime

• Describe workflows involving AML/BSA, KYC, client due diligence, enhanced due diligence, and onboarding
• Explain how alerts, investigations, escalations, and case decisions are handled in practice
• Identify the information and judgement required to distinguish routine cases from higher-risk matters
• Describe practical challenges in transaction monitoring and financial-crime investigations
• Highlight areas where professional judgement plays a significant role

Sanctions, Screening & Surveillance

• Explain processes involving sanctions screening, name matching, alert disposition, and escalation
• Describe trade, transaction, or communications surveillance workflows where relevant
• Identify common sources of false positives, ambiguous cases, and operational complexity
• Explain how practitioners document and support screening or surveillance decisions
• Highlight important workflow details that may not be apparent from policies or public guidance

Regulatory Compliance & Reporting

• Describe workflows involving regulatory reporting, regulatory change, and compliance implementation
• Explain how new or changing requirements are translated into operational processes
• Identify review, approval, documentation, and escalation requirements
• Describe conduct, consumer-protection, securities, or wealth-management compliance where relevant
• Explain how first-line, second-line, audit, and advisory responsibilities differ in practice

Testing, Assurance & Controls

• Describe compliance testing, monitoring, assurance, and internal-control workflows
• Explain how deficiencies are identified, documented, and escalated
• Identify the evidence required to support compliance conclusions
• Describe remediation, issue management, and follow-up processes
• Highlight practical differences between policy compliance and effective operational execution

Professional Judgement & AI Failure Modes

• Identify areas where automated systems commonly misunderstand compliance work
• Provide concrete examples of flawed reasoning, oversimplified conclusions, or missed context
• Explain which parts of compliance work rely most heavily on professional judgement
• Highlight the invisible aspects of casework that outsiders or project designers may overlook
• Help define realistic scenarios for future compliance-focused workstreams

Ideal Profile

• Practising or recently practising professional in Compliance, Financial Crime, AML, KYC/CDD, Sanctions, Fraud, Surveillance, Regulatory Compliance, or a related field
• Experience within first-line operations, second-line compliance, internal audit, regulatory functions, or external advisory
• Relevant backgrounds may include:
  • AML/BSA and transaction monitoring
  • KYC/CDD and client onboarding
  • Sanctions and screening
  • Fraud and disputes
  • Trade or communications surveillance
  • Conduct and consumer-protection compliance
  • Regulatory reporting and change
  • Compliance testing and assurance
• Professional credentials such as CAMS, CGSS, CFCS, CFE, CRCM, ICA Diploma, or relevant FINRA registrations are preferred but not required
• Substantial hands-on domain experience may substitute for formal credentials
• Strong written communication and ability to describe professional workflows in specific, practical terms
• Comfortable sharing detailed insight into the mechanics of compliance work without disclosing confidential information

Engagement Details

• Part-time independent contractor opportunity
• Fully remote
• Initial written intake requires approximately 15 minutes
• Flexible participation
• Typical compensation for subsequent compliance engagements: $80–$100/hour, depending on project scope and seniority
• Strong intake responses may support matching to relevant upcoming compliance projects
• Future engagements may cover AML/BSA, KYC/CDD, sanctions, transaction monitoring, investigations, securities and wealth compliance, surveillance, regulatory reporting, and assurance
• Project scope, duration, and availability may vary according to research needs
• Work must be completed without using confidential or proprietary information belonging to any employer, client, institution, or other third party
• H1-B and STEM OPT support is unavailable for applicable engagements

About the Platform

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