Senior Financial Crimes Specialist

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Financial Crimes Specialist for the Consortium Team within Financial Crimes, Anti Money Laundering Fraud Investigations.  Learn more about career areas and business divisions at .

In this role, you will:

• Lead or participate in highly complex initiatives and investigations.
• Investigate, research, examine, and report complex financial crimes transactions, policy violations and suspicious situations with high levels of risk.
• Develop, foster and conduct regular outreach to Law Enforcement to better understand the underlining predicate for Consortium investigations.
• Lead multiple WF and Consortium member bank members to conduct highly complex driven projects.
• Conduct internal WF Consortium and 314(a) predicated investigations.   
• File complex SARs with FinCEN on behalf of WF.
• Draft and compile a robust, comprehensive investigative Consortium Report (Joint Analysis) synthesizing your investigative findings, trends discovered and risk concerns for WF.
• Present investigative findings to executive members within WF: to include the BSA Officer, AMLFI Executives, SAR Review Working Group members, Business Advisory Leaders and other internal stakeholders.  
• Perform investigative research, root cause assessment and consulting regarding highly complex financial crimes transactions, policy violations and suspicious situations with moderate to high risk.
• Perform detailed examination of data to detect transactional and relationship patterns, trends, anomalies, schemes and risks across multiple businesses or products.
• Partner closely with leadership to develop strategies to minimize financial crime portfolio risk.
• Provide leadership within the team.
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and mid-level managers to resolve issues and achieve goals.
• Provide executive and business advisory leaders briefings on investigative findings and trends impacting WF

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Financial Crimes, Operational Risk, Fraud, Sanctions, Anti-Bribery, Corruption experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.

Desired Qualifications:

• Prior law enforcement or sanctions related experience.
• Prior experience in the financial services industry, including general banking and/or accounting knowledge.
• Knowledge of the 314(a) and 314(b) provisions of the US Patriot ACT.
• Familiar with 314(b) information sharing program, including assessing eligibility, intaking the request, and determining what information is appropriate to share.
• Experience researching and analyzing complex transactions to detect patterns, trends, and anomalies.
• Ability to execute in a fast paced, high demand, production-oriented environment while balancing multiple priorities.
• Strong organization, verbal and time management skills.
• The ability to timely meet deadlines.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to take initiative and work independently with minimal supervision in a structured environment.
• Proven strong problem-solving and analytical skills with high attention to detail and accuracy.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and Outlook) products and Wells Fargo systems such as Financial Crimes Platform, SVP, and Consumer Small Business Banking (CSBB) claims databases.
• BS/BA degree or higher.

Job Expectations:

• Ability to work at the approved location in the job posting.
• This position offers a hybrid work schedule.
• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
• This position involves some travel.

Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants

Posting End Date:

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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