AML Onboarding & Transaction Monitoring Specialist
  • Posted On: 29/10/2025

AML Onboarding & Transaction Monitoring Specialist

  • Makati | Remote
  • AML Onboarding & Transaction Monitoring Specialist
  • Full-Time
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  • You will own the day-to-day KYC/KYB onboarding, transaction monitoring, and post-compliance activation checks for Mint’s UK (initially) then AU/NZ business, delivering clean customer files, crisp risk narratives, documented processes, and timely handovers to in-house approvers.
  • Note: This role will follow UK Time zone.

Key Responsibilities:

Onboarding (KYC/KYB/CDD)

  • Collect, review and verify customer documentation (KYB/KYC/UBO) against Mint
    onboarding standards.
  • Perform sanctions, PEP & adverse media checks and maintain risk scoring.
  • Trigger EDD when required and prepare clear supporting rationales.
  • Build complete audit-ready files with structured decision logs.
  • Maintain accurate data across FirstAML, HubSpot, and internal onboarding trackers.

Transaction Monitoring & Investigations

  • Action daily transaction alerts, analyse contextual risk signals, and determine disposition.
  • Draft concise, regulatory-standard investigation narratives.
  • Prepare escalation summaries for submission to Mint’s MLRO (UK SAR, AU SMR, NZ
    SAR drafts – final submission retained by MLRO).
  • Identify typologies and recommend rule tuning to reduce false positives.

Activation & Post-Compliance

  • Support end-to-end customer onboarding beyond approval, including:
    • Internal account setup in Mint systems and product configuration.
    • Coordination of missing documentation and account activation readiness.
    • Contract send-outs (DocuSign/HubSpot) and checklist completion.
  • Ensure a smooth handoff from compliance approval ➝ merchant activation.

Processes, SOPs & Quality

  • Own and document onboarding workflows, SOPs and quality standards.
  • Maintain risk playbooks and update procedures as regulations evolve.
  • Build repeatable processes to scale Mint’s onboarding into a “follow-the-sun” model.
  • Own weekly reporting on SLA performance, volumes, EDD cases, alert outcomes &
    operational risks.
  • Support internal QA, audits, and regulatory readiness.

 

What You’ll Need:

  • 2–4+ years of AML/KYC/KYB and/or Transaction Monitoring experience (ideally fintech, PSP, or BPO risk operations).
  • Solid understanding of onboarding and AML frameworks (CDD/EDD, risk scoring,
    sanctions).
  • Experience reviewing business models and risk factors for higher-risk industries.
  • Strong written English and risk documentation skills.
  • Comfortable working with screening/AML tools (e.g. FirstAML, ComplyAdvantage).
  • High attention to detail and disciplined with process/checklists.
  • Experience following SLAs, case queues and structured workflows.

 

Nice to have:

  • Experience in payments, travel, or financial services onboarding.
  • Background with UK market AML/reg expectations (NCA SAR exposure ideal).
  • Familiarity with HubSpot, Centrix (NZ), Excel/Sheets.
  • Experience in building SOPs/workflow documentation.
  • Previous UK shift/BPO operational model experience.

 

KPIs / SLAs:

  • Onboarding SLA: CDD ≤ 1 business day; EDD ≤ 3 business days
  • Quality: ≥ 95% QA pass rate; <5% rework
  • TM Alerts: Same-day triage; high-risk alerts escalated within 8 hours
  • Activation: 100% completed checklists and clean handoff to merchant setup
  • Governance: Zero critical audit findings; no missing documentation

 

Ways of working:

  • Work as part of a global follow-the-sun model.
  • UK hours coverage with structured handovers to AU/NZ teams.
  • Strict GDPR/UK-GDPR, AU Privacy Act, and NZ Privacy Act compliance.
  • Maintain privacy and secure data handling at all times

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