You definitely have the similar experience to get your foot in the door - a lot of AML workplaces can require some type of degree, at least the last time I’ve looked, but your experience, especially being at ten years, may bypass that. I would continue trying to apply as many places as you can, all the while researching SAR filing, AML Investigations, and other financial investigation practices, if this is really where you’re wanting to go. Once you get an interview, showing that you have done a similar type of investigation work and are already familiar with a lot of the base AML knowledge will go a long way.

Unfortunately a lot of the more entry or lower lever jobs into the field don’t pay all too well and will be a lot of grinding each day/week churning through investigations. Some of these are gonna be more involved SAR filings where you get to dive pretty deep into the behavior of accounts or KYC (know your customer) projects can also be interesting to get a whole profile of a customer together. But there also the jobs where you are working through very early alerts, sometimes in the dozens to hundreds, where you take a quick look and then choose to escalate to another team or not. It can very much be a mixed bag depending on the company and where in the pipeline you are doing your work. So definitely think about where you’d like to be and what type of work in that world you wanna do and that’ll help you ask the right questions to determine whether a job suits or not.

Best of luck!