2025 median annual pay
$80,730
Median for the whole occupation, across all experience levels. It is not specific to a level or to Brazil.
Career in 2026 and 2027
AML & Financial Crime Analyst
An AML and financial crime analyst helps a financial institution detect and report money laundering, sanctions evasion and related crime. The work moves from knowing customers and rules, to investigating alerts and filing reports, to steering the whole program and facing emerging threats.
Content reviewed on October 21, 2026
- Levels
- 4
- Skills mapped at Mid-level
- 7
What each level must prove
Mid-level
Accountable for the monitoring and reporting engine: reviewing risk, working alerts and filing reports on time.
You decide on alerts instead of only collecting information: investigating, closing with a reason, or escalating to a suspicious activity report. You look into ownership structures and politically exposed persons, and contribute to how monitoring rules and the program are built. What changes from junior is that your conclusions drive regulatory filings.
Average score required: 67%
Study trail for this level: AML & Financial Crime Compliance
BSA/AML Compliance Program Design
Why: You can check a program against the five pillars and point out which one is weak, for example missing independent testing, before an examiner does.
CDD & Enhanced Due Diligence
Why: You can set and defend a risk rating method, and decide when ongoing monitoring should trigger a fresh review, not just complete a form for one customer.
PEP Screening & UBO Identification
Why: You can trace a company through layers of holdings or a trust to the real owner and find a politically exposed person hidden behind it, before the account is approved.
Transaction Monitoring Systems
Why: You can adjust rule thresholds when a scenario floods analysts with false positives or misses real cases, and show evidence that the change works.
Alert Management & Disposition
Why: You can work an alert from generation to a documented decision and escalate it properly, so quality assurance finds a clear reasoning trail.
SAR/STR Preparation & Filing
Why: You can write a suspicious activity narrative with supporting documents that a regulator or investigator can follow without calling you, and file it within the deadline.
CTR Reporting & Structuring Detection
Why: You can file cash transaction reports correctly and notice a customer splitting deposits to stay under the threshold, which turns routine filing into detection.
Study for AML & Financial Crime Analyst: trails and practice exams
Each level of this career maps to a study trail. Read the full topic map for free, then measure your level.
Market snapshot (United States)
Projected job growth, 2025–2035
+4%
About as fast as average
Closest US occupation: Compliance Officers. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook, updated August 27, 2026
Two ways to move up one level
12 weeks · intensive
For whoever has a deadline
About 8 hours a week, in 1 cycle focused on the gaps that weigh most.
40 weeks · regular
Alongside work
About 4 hours a week, in 3 cycles. Each cycle carries what was left from the previous one.
Frequently asked questions
What is AML & Financial Crime Analyst?
An AML and financial crime analyst helps a financial institution detect and report money laundering, sanctions evasion and related crime. The work moves from knowing customers and rules, to investigating alerts and filing reports, to steering the whole program and facing emerging threats.
What must each level of AML & Financial Crime Analyst prove?
AML & Financial Crime Analyst is mapped in 4 levels: Junior, Mid-level, Senior, and Expert. Open each level above to see the skills it must prove.
How long does the AML & Financial Crime Analyst plan take?
The plan has 2 paces: 12 weeks per level at about 8 hours a week (intensive) and 40 weeks per level at about 4 hours a week (regular).
How the plan works
AI tutor
A study session on each new topic, at your level.
AI school
Hands-on lessons on using AI in your career's daily work.
Assessments
Each requirement is proven by measurement, not by a checkbox.
Stage review
At the end of each cycle you see what moved and what carries over.
Find out which level you are at
A short diagnostic measures the skills you already have. The journey starts from there.