I might have an interview for an AML investigations analyst position and I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions about interview questions. During the phone screen, they asked me if I have experience in transaction alerts and filing SARs. I've never been in this kind of specific role but I do handle risk assessment currently. Any advice would be much appreciated!!

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Your current risk analysis role is probably more like SAR investigations. You take an identified set of unusual transactions, often in the context of negative news, determine whether they're suspicious and support your conclusion with documentary evidence. Helps to be able to write a good narrative so definitely mention it if your current work inolves that. I suggest looking at FinCEN's website for their SAR filing requirements and trend reports, maybe the FFIEC examiner manual content on SARs, to memorize things like the minimum filing thresholds or the filing timeline.

For AML alerts, familiarize yourself with the types of red flags they're designed to catch. Things like structuring one large payment into a group of smaller payments or sudden changes in activity patterns on an account. An institution should train new hires on its particular alert scenarios and what to look out for. Alerts tend to be higher volume work but that's where most analysts start out. Some institutions divide the work of alerts & SARs between different staff and some have the same analysts doing both.

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Thank you so much!!! This is really helpful!!

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