Financial Compliance Expert - Remote Contract
Listing checked September 17, 2026 · pay as published by Mercor
Overview
Mercor is building a series of compliance and financial-crime projects with leading AI labs. Before scoping each one, the team wants a written intake that captures how practitioners work, not how textbooks describe the field. You will spend about 15 minutes describing your day-to-day workflows, the tools and decision points that shape your work, and the specialty cuts insiders use across AML/BSA, KYC/CDD, sanctions screening, and transaction monitoring. The intake also asks where AI makes mistakes in your casework and which invisible parts of the job project designers miss. Your answers shape the scope of future engagements and can lead to priority routing for offers.
What You'll Do6
- 1Complete a written intake of about 15 minutes that covers your compliance practice.
- 2Map your daily workflows, how you split time, and which workflows sit at the core of your role.
- 3Explain how experienced practitioners divide the field from the inside, using the cuts insiders rely on rather than textbook categories.
- 4Point to specific cases where AI tools get your work wrong and describe what went wrong.
- 5Share the hidden parts of your work that outsiders, including project designers, tend to miss.
- 6Give detailed, specific answers instead of polished or generic ones.
Requirements5
- 1Practicing or between roles in compliance and financial crime.
- 2Experience in first line, second line, internal audit, or external advisory.
- 3Hands-on work in at least one seat: KYC/CDD and client onboarding, transaction monitoring and AML investigations, sanctions and screening, fraud and disputes, trade and communications surveillance, conduct and consumer-protection compliance, regulatory reporting and change, or compliance testing and assurance.
- 4Certifications such as CAMS, CGSS, CFCS, CFE, CRCM, an ICA diploma, or FINRA registrations preferred. Deep domain experience without a credential is welcome.
- 5Willingness to write detailed, specific answers about the mechanics of your work.
Who Should Apply
The right person has hands-on compliance or financial-crime work behind them, whether in KYC/CDD, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, fraud, surveillance, regulatory reporting, or testing. You can describe exact workflows, tools, and decision points from your own casework, and you see value in explaining how the field divides from the inside. This intake fits practitioners who want to shape AI lab projects and gain priority routing for future engagements. People without direct compliance experience will find the intake a poor fit, as will those who plan to give textbook definitions instead of concrete examples. Candidates often score low when their answers stay vague, skip specific casework, or fail to name the regulations, systems, and alert volumes they handle.
Salary Insight
The listing shows $80 per hour. Mercor notes that compliance rates on its platform often range from $90 to $110 per hour and rise with seniority, so this intake rate sits below that band and may reflect the shorter survey format. Pay for later engagement offers can differ.
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