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ATS resume keywords for Financial Crime, AML and KYC

These are the 28 terms our scorer checks a Financial Crime, AML and KYC resume against. It is the same list the free check uses, published in full.

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The vocabulary

Coverage is 25 of the 100 points. Sixty percent of this list is full marks, so you do not need all of it, and stuffing every term in is penalised separately.

  • aml
  • anti money laundering
  • kyc
  • cdd
  • edd
  • customer due diligence
  • sanctions screening
  • pep
  • transaction monitoring
  • sar
  • str
  • suspicious activity
  • fincen
  • fatf
  • ofac
  • actimize
  • mantas
  • norkom
  • world-check
  • alert investigation
  • case management
  • false positive
  • risk rating
  • cft
  • pmla
  • fiu-ind
  • name screening
  • typology

The eight questions for Financial Crime, AML and KYC

The guided builder asks these, in this order, and turns each answer into a line on the page. Nothing is written that you did not type.

  1. 1.How many alerts, cases or reviews do you handle in a month?
  2. 2.How many suspicious activity or transaction reports have you filed?
  3. 3.What is your quality score or error rate on reviews?
  4. 4.Which typologies, products or customer segments do you cover?
  5. 5.Which screening, monitoring and case management systems do you work in?
  6. 6.Which regulations and frameworks do you work under?
  7. 7.What rule, threshold or process have you tuned, and what did it change?
  8. 8.How many audits, regulatory examinations or quality reviews have you supported, and with what outcome?
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Words are the easy half

A resume can carry every term above and still be rejected, because coverage says what you know and nothing about what you delivered. The heaviest category on the rubric is evidence: how many of your bullets carry an actual figure.

Seven in ten is full marks. Most resumes we see manage two.

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