Does AML Analyst role count as CFA work experience?

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The CFA website’s Work Experience Self Assessment quiz has a question -
Do you spend a majority of your time overseeing legal/regulatory compliance matters, performing due diligence, and/or ensuring that investment firms adhere to applicable laws, regulations, and professional standards of practice?
which is the only one that applies and when answered YES it says
Based on your responses, your work experience is SOMEWHAT LIKELY to qualify for regular membership.
Here’s a summary of the job role:
The AML Analyst Job responsibilities may include but are not limited to:
• Collect and analyze a wide variety of information related to system or manually generated alerts to identify persons and entities that may be laundering money or funding terrorism, escalating as appropriate for further investigation or reporting in accordance with defined processes and legislation.
• Conduct a comprehensive review within established prescribed processes/guidelines set by the AML leadership team of high risk clients and assess risks posed and provide a final recommendation to maintain/demarket client based on assessment and risk of client.
• Identify unusual activities and behaviors across multiple products, analyzing and assessing information and referring all transactions that may relate to money laundering or terrorist financing for further investigation or reporting as outlined in documented processes and protocols.
I dont want to take up the new job and waste time by not having it count towards the CFA work exp. requirement.
What do you think?

 

[AfricaFarmer]

From my limited experience with the institute, the line between what qualifies as experience and what doesn’t, can get quite blurry. You never know until you apply. I’m sure some of the charterholders will chime in though.

 

[geo]

This role is a huge stretch, on the very edge of what might accepted. No harm in applying, its free. But I wouldn’t take this one to the bank.
But if the choice is between taking the job and playing Angry Birds all day, take the job and keep looking. Employed people are way more attractive to firms than unemployed bums.
Don’t reject an opportunity because it may not fit. Honestly the job market sucks right now and you may not get a better chance. Take a decent job, work hard, get promoted. You don’t want to be that guy who has been unemployed two years after grad waiting for the perfect job, because at that point, you’ll be toxic.