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AML Analyst Resume Examples

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A strong anti-money laundering analyst resume should show volume, quality, and what your investigations found. Highlight alerts cleared per year or month, quality review pass rate, suspicious activity reports filed and any returned for deficiency, law enforcement referrals and follow-ups, examination results, and the templates or methods you built that other analysts use. Name your credentials and systems, because ACAMS and fraud examiner certifications and monitoring and case platforms are filtered on. State your level plainly, since an analyst clearing alerts, a senior analyst handling complex cases and quality control, an investigations analyst in a financial intelligence unit, and an entry level analyst with reviewed dispositions are hired on different evidence. Use the examples below to see how to turn financial crime work into clear, results-focused resume achievements.

AML Analyst Resume Example

Meet Olamide Fashola, a fictional AML analyst clearing about 1,400 alerts a year at a regional bank. This example shows the core analyst role measured on quality pass rate, reports filed without deficiency, and a template that cut review time.

Olamide Fashola

(904) 555-0126 Jacksonville, FL

Objective

Anti-money laundering analyst with 5 years in transaction monitoring and case review at a regional bank with $22B in assets and 900,000 customers. Clears about 1,400 monitoring alerts a year with a 98% quality review pass rate, filed 85 suspicious activity reports with 0 returned for deficiency, and cut alert review time 30% by building a case narrative template adopted across a team of 14. Reviews every alert as if a regulator will read the file, and writes the disposition so they could.

Education
B.S. in Criminal Justice, St. Johns River Crown University 2017 – 2021

Coursework in Financial Crime, White Collar Crime, Criminal Law, and Research Methods.

Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist, ACAMS 2023

Also completed a transaction monitoring analytics course in 2024 and 20 hours of continuing compliance education a year.

Skills
AML Analysis
Transaction monitoring alert review, case investigation and disposition, suspicious activity report drafting and filing, typology recognition including structuring, layering, and funnel accounts, customer risk rating review
Regulatory and Process
Bank Secrecy Act requirements, currency transaction reporting, sanctions screening escalation, record keeping and audit trail, quality control standards, regulatory examination support
Research and Tools
Open source and public record research, transaction pattern analysis, database queries, case management systems, narrative writing, working with fraud and legal teams
Tools & Platforms
Actimize, Verafin, LexisNexis, World-Check, Excel, SQL basics, Microsoft Teams, FinCEN e-filing system
Experience
AML Analyst II 06/2023 – Present
St. Johns River Crown Bank Jacksonville, FL
  • Clear about 1,400 transaction monitoring alerts a year for a $22B bank with 900,000 customers, with a 98% quality review pass rate against a team standard of 95%.
  • Filed 85 suspicious activity reports in 3 years with 0 returned for deficiency and 100% filed within the regulatory deadline.
  • Cut alert review time 30% by building a case narrative template with a standard fact sequence, adopted across a team of 14.
AML Analyst I 08/2021 – 05/2023
Atlantic Coast Line Credit Union Jacksonville, FL
  • Reviewed about 1,000 alerts a year and 300 currency transaction reports for a credit union with 200,000 members.
  • Identified a structuring pattern across 6 related accounts that led to a suspicious activity report and a law enforcement request.
  • Reached full alert productivity in 3 months against a 6-month new analyst standard.
Compliance Intern 01/2021 – 05/2021
Atlantic Coast Line Credit Union Jacksonville, FL
  • Supported 200 customer risk rating reviews during a 5-month internship with 0 errors at supervisor check.
  • Built a tracker for 40 regulatory training completions that the compliance officer adopted for the whole staff of 300.
  • Hired full time at the end of the internship, 1 of 2 interns of 3 offered a position.
Projects

Case Narrative Template. Built a narrative template with a standard sequence covering subject, activity, amounts, pattern, and disposition rationale, tested on 100 cases and reviewed by the quality team, which cut review time 30%, raised the team quality pass rate from 91% to 97%, and was adopted by the examination response team for file production.

Funnel Account Investigation. Identified a funnel account pattern across 11 accounts in 4 states through transaction analysis of 9,000 transactions, documented $2.3M in movement with a link chart, and filed a suspicious activity report that received a law enforcement follow-up request within 30 days.

Alert Tuning Feedback. Analysed 6 months of personal alert dispositions to find 3 monitoring scenarios producing 70% of non-productive alerts, presented the analysis to the model owner, and contributed to a threshold change that cut non-productive alerts in those scenarios 40% with no drop in reports filed.

Extra-Curricular Activities
  • Member of an anti-money laundering professionals chapter, attending about 6 events a year.
  • Volunteer financial literacy instructor for a community programme, about 6 sessions a year.
  • Play in a recreational soccer league across a 14-game season.
Leadership
  • Serve as a peer quality reviewer for 4 newer analysts, reviewing about 30 cases a month.
  • Trained 5 new analysts on the case narrative template and alert review standards.
  • Represent the analyst team in the monthly monitoring scenario review with the model owner.
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Senior AML Analyst Resume Example

Meet Lorraine Petrova, a senior analyst leading complex cases and quality control for a team of 30 at a global bank. This example shows senior evidence: complex investigations, a quality programme that raised pass rates, and an examination closed with 0 findings.

Lorraine Petrova

(212) 555-0136 New York, NY

Objective

Senior anti-money laundering analyst with 9 years in financial crime compliance, leading the complex case and quality control workstream for a global bank with 3M customers and a monitoring programme generating 60,000 alerts a year. Handles the 200 most complex cases a year including correspondent banking and trade finance, raised the team quality pass rate from 89% to 97%, and led the analyst response to a regulatory examination that closed with 0 findings on case quality. Sets the standard for what a defensible case looks like, and reviews the work against it.

Education
M.S. in Financial Crime and Compliance Management, Hudson Crown University 2019 – 2021

Coursework in Money Laundering Typologies, Sanctions, Financial Investigation, and Compliance Programme Management; completed part time while working.

B.A. in Economics, Hudson Crown University 2013 – 2017

Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist since 2019; Certified Global Sanctions Specialist since 2022.

Skills
Complex AML Investigation
Correspondent banking and trade finance investigations, complex ownership and network analysis, cross-border transaction analysis, high-risk customer reviews, suspicious activity report authorship on complex cases
Quality and Governance
Quality control programme design, case review and feedback, procedure authorship, regulatory examination and audit response, metrics and reporting, escalation to financial intelligence unit and legal
Analysis and Tools
Link analysis, transaction data querying, typology research, sanctions and adverse media screening, case management administration, analyst training and mentoring
Tools & Platforms
Actimize, Oracle Financial Crime, SQL, i2 Analyst Notebook, World-Check, LexisNexis, Excel and Power BI, Microsoft Teams
Experience
Senior AML Analyst, Complex Cases and Quality Control 03/2021 – Present
Hudson Crown Global Bank New York, NY
  • Handle the 200 most complex cases a year, including correspondent banking and trade finance matters, for a global bank with 3M customers and 60,000 monitoring alerts a year.
  • Lead quality control for a team of 30 analysts, reviewing about 600 cases a year, and raised the quality pass rate from 89% to 97% in 2 years.
  • Led the analyst response to a regulatory examination covering 150 sampled cases, which closed with 0 findings on case quality.
AML Analyst, then Senior Analyst 07/2017 – 02/2021
Battery Park Line Financial New York, NY
  • Cleared about 1,600 alerts a year as an analyst and reviewed 400 cases a year as a senior, with a 99% personal quality pass rate.
  • Filed 140 suspicious activity reports across 4 years, including 12 that led to law enforcement follow-up requests.
  • Wrote the correspondent banking investigation procedure adopted across 3 regional teams and 50 analysts.
Compliance Analyst Intern 06/2016 – 08/2016
Battery Park Line Financial New York, NY
  • Supported 150 high-risk customer reviews during a 12-week internship with documentation accepted without revision.
  • Built a typology reference guide of 30 patterns adopted for new analyst training.
  • Received a full-time offer at the end of the 12-week internship based on the typology guide.
Projects

Quality Control Programme. Built a quality control programme with a 25-point scoring rubric, a 10% sample by analyst, monthly feedback sessions, and a trend report to the compliance officer, which raised the team pass rate from 89% to 97% and cut cases reopened after review from about 20 a month to 3.

Trade Finance Network Investigation. Investigated a network of 22 entities across 6 countries flagged through trade finance documents, analysing 14,000 transactions and $48M in flows with link analysis and shipping data, which produced a suspicious activity report, an exit decision on 9 relationships, and a referral that law enforcement acted on.

Examination Response. Led the analyst response to a regulatory examination that sampled 150 cases, preparing a file index, a summary for each case, and a walkthrough for examiners across 3 weeks, which closed with 0 findings on case quality and 0 requests for re-work.

Extra-Curricular Activities
  • Serve on the committee of an anti-money laundering professionals chapter with about 800 members.
  • Speak at financial crime conferences about twice a year on investigation quality.
  • Mentor 3 early-career compliance analysts a year through an industry programme.
Leadership
  • Lead quality control and complex case review for a team of 30 analysts and supervise 2 quality reviewers.
  • Trained 40 analysts on investigation standards and correspondent banking procedures across 2 employers.
  • Present case quality metrics and complex case outcomes to the compliance officer monthly.
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AML Investigations Analyst Resume Example

Meet Chukwuemeka Adeyemi, an investigations analyst in the financial intelligence unit of a payments company. This example shows investigation evidence: reports and referrals produced, a network analysis method, and a laundering ring uncovered.

Chukwuemeka Adeyemi

(973) 555-0140 Newark, NJ

Objective

Anti-money laundering investigations analyst with 7 years in financial crime investigations, currently in the financial intelligence unit of a payments company processing $80B a year across 40 countries. Completes about 260 escalated investigations a year, produced 110 suspicious activity reports and 18 law enforcement referrals in 3 years, and built the network analysis method that uncovered a $31M laundering ring across 400 accounts. Investigates the case past the alert that raised it, and writes the report a prosecutor could open with.

Education
B.S. in Forensic Accounting, Passaic River Crown University 2015 – 2019

Coursework in Fraud Examination, Financial Investigation, Data Analytics, and Criminal Law.

Certified Fraud Examiner and Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist, ACFE and ACAMS 2021 – 2022

Also completed a cryptocurrency investigation certification in 2024 and a financial intelligence analysis course in 2023.

Skills
Financial Crime Investigation
Escalated case investigation, network and link analysis, fund flow tracing across accounts and institutions, cryptocurrency transaction tracing, interview and information request preparation, evidence organisation
Reporting and Referral
Suspicious activity report authorship, law enforcement referral and response, information sharing requests, case memoranda, testimony preparation support, regulatory reporting deadlines
Analysis and Tools
SQL and data extraction, pattern detection across large transaction sets, open source intelligence, blockchain analytics, typology development, case management
Tools & Platforms
i2 Analyst Notebook, Chainalysis, SQL, Actimize, Palantir, LexisNexis, Excel, Microsoft Teams
Experience
AML Investigations Analyst, Financial Intelligence Unit 04/2023 – Present
Passaic River Crown Payments Newark, NJ
  • Complete about 260 escalated investigations a year in the financial intelligence unit of a payments company processing $80B a year across 40 countries.
  • Produced 110 suspicious activity reports and 18 law enforcement referrals in 3 years, with 7 referrals acknowledged as contributing to an enforcement action.
  • Built the network analysis method that uncovered a $31M laundering ring across 400 accounts, which led to account closures and a referral acted on within 60 days.
Financial Crime Investigator 08/2019 – 03/2023
Ironbound Line Bank Newark, NJ
  • Investigated about 300 escalated fraud and money laundering cases a year for a $9B bank.
  • Traced $4.6M in fund flows across 60 accounts in an elder financial exploitation case that resulted in $1.9M recovered for victims.
  • Responded to about 120 law enforcement information requests a year with a 100% on-time record.
Forensic Accounting Intern 05/2018 – 08/2018
Ironbound Line Bank Newark, NJ
  • Reconstructed 18 months of transactions across 12 accounts for an internal investigation during a 12-week internship.
  • Built a fund flow chart that the investigations manager presented to legal and that supported a $400,000 recovery.
  • Received a full-time offer at the end of the 12-week internship based on the fund flow work.
Projects

Laundering Ring Network Analysis. Built a method combining device, address, and transaction linkages across accounts with a scoring rule for connection strength, applied it to 3 escalated cases, and uncovered a ring of 400 accounts moving $31M through layered transfers, which produced a consolidated suspicious activity report and a referral acted on within 60 days.

Cryptocurrency Tracing Capability. Built the unit capability to trace flows to and from cryptocurrency exchanges using blockchain analytics, wrote the procedure, and applied it to 40 cases in the first year, which identified $6M in flows to high-risk services and supported 9 suspicious activity reports.

Elder Exploitation Investigation. Traced $4.6M across 60 accounts and 4 institutions at a previous employer in an elder financial exploitation case, coordinating with 2 other banks under information sharing rules, which supported a law enforcement case and $1.9M in recovery for 14 victims.

Extra-Curricular Activities
  • Member of a fraud examiners chapter, presenting about once a year on network analysis.
  • Volunteer investigator for a nonprofit that helps elder fraud victims, about 5 cases a year.
  • Guest lecturer for a university forensic accounting course twice a year.
Leadership
  • Lead the network analysis workstream in a financial intelligence unit of 12 and mentor 3 investigators.
  • Trained 20 analysts on the network analysis method and cryptocurrency tracing procedure.
  • Serve as the unit point of contact for 2 law enforcement task forces.
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Entry Level AML Analyst Resume Example

Meet Divya Bhaskar, 9 months into a first AML role after a compliance internship and part-time teller work. This example shows how to write early-career work honestly, on alerts cleared, quality scores, and reports drafted under review.

Divya Bhaskar

(602) 555-0112 Phoenix, AZ

Objective

Entry level anti-money laundering analyst with 9 months in transaction monitoring at a fintech company after a finance degree and a compliance internship, working alerts under a senior analyst. Clears about 110 alerts a month with a 97% quality review pass rate, reached full productivity in 10 weeks against a 16-week standard, and drafted 6 suspicious activity reports that were filed with minor edits. Early in the career, so the record is alerts reviewed, quality scores, and reports a senior analyst signed off.

Education
B.S. in Finance, Salt River Crown University 2021 – 2025

GPA 3.6; coursework in Financial Institutions, Financial Crime and Compliance, Business Law, and Data Analysis.

Certified Anti-Money Laundering Associate, ACAMS 2025

Also completed a Bank Secrecy Act fundamentals course and an SQL basics course in 2025.

Skills
AML Foundations
Transaction monitoring alert review, customer and transaction research, basic typology recognition, case documentation, suspicious activity report drafting under review, escalation criteria
Research and Analysis
Open source and public record research, transaction pattern review in spreadsheets, basic SQL queries, screening result review, attention to detail across large record sets
Practice
Clear written dispositions, meeting daily alert targets, taking feedback from quality review, confidentiality, working with senior analysts and the fraud team
Tools & Platforms
Unit21, LexisNexis, Excel, SQL basics, Google Workspace, Jira, Microsoft Teams, ComplyAdvantage
Experience
AML Analyst I 12/2025 – Present
Salt River Crown Financial Technology Phoenix, AZ
  • Clear about 110 transaction monitoring alerts a month for a fintech company with 2M customers, under a senior analyst on a team of 9.
  • Hold a 97% quality review pass rate across about 900 alerts, against a new analyst standard of 90%.
  • Reached full alert productivity in 10 weeks against a 16-week standard and drafted 6 suspicious activity reports filed with minor edits.
Compliance Intern 06/2025 – 11/2025
Salt River Crown Financial Technology Phoenix, AZ
  • Reviewed about 400 screening hits for sanctions and adverse media during a 6-month internship with 0 missed true matches at review.
  • Built a tracker for 300 customer risk rating reviews that cut the overdue count from 60 to 0 in 8 weeks.
  • Hired full time at the end of the 6-month internship as the first intern converted on a team of 9.
Bank Teller (Part Time) 09/2023 – 05/2025
Camelback Crown Community Bank Phoenix, AZ
  • Processed about 120 transactions a shift with a 0 cash discrepancy record across 2 years while studying full time.
  • Completed 45 currency transaction report forms and flagged 4 transactions to the compliance officer, 2 of which led to reports.
  • Ranked in the top 3 of 10 tellers for referral quality in 5 of 7 quarters.
Projects

Structuring Pattern Alert. Investigated an alert on a single account, extended the review to 5 linked accounts through shared contact details, and documented 40 cash deposits just under the reporting threshold across 3 months, which a senior analyst reviewed and filed as a suspicious activity report with minor edits.

Risk Rating Review Tracker. Built a tracker for 300 periodic customer risk rating reviews with due dates, owners, and status during the internship, which cut overdue reviews from 60 to 0 in 8 weeks and was adopted by the compliance team for all 1,200 annual reviews.

Course Project: Money Laundering Typology Study. Wrote a 20-page analysis of 3 laundering typologies using public enforcement cases, with a red flag checklist for each, which earned the top grade in a class of 32 and was used as an interview work sample.

Extra-Curricular Activities
  • Member of an anti-money laundering professionals chapter, attending about 6 events a year.
  • Volunteer financial literacy tutor for a community programme, 2 hours a week.
  • Play in a recreational badminton league across a 10-week season.
Leadership
  • Onboarded 1 new intern on the screening review process and the risk rating tracker.
  • Treasurer of a university finance club with 90 members and a $6,000 annual budget for 2 years.
  • Trained 2 new tellers on currency transaction report forms in the previous role.
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