Financial Crimes Analytics Senior Analyst

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This job is responsible for executing substantive money laundering, economic sanctions and fraud compliance and operational risk practices. Key responsibilities include working directly or through compliance officers for the Front Line Units (FLUs) and Control Functions (CFs) to complete compliance, policy, operational/fraud risk management requirements.

The Financial Crimes Analytics Senior Analyst is a subject matter expert in the identification and evaluation of financial crimes.  The Senior Analyst is responsible for assembling relevant information and performed a deeper assessment, compiling a crisp illustration of the problem, and communicated that with stakeholders including executive leadership across all lines of businesses.  The incumbent is regularly interacting with senior executives and influencing outcomes through clear risk mitigation recommendations.  In addition, a Senior Analyst is responsible for helping more junior analysts improve their skills to identify and escalate risk.       

Responsibilities:

• Well rounded financial crimes expertise, experience with Fraud, AML and Sanctions typologies, trends, and internal bank processes
• Proven ability to identify, escalate and debate potential gaps in program with sound recommendations for remediation
• Ability to identify and summarize risk associated with high profile matters
• Understands and influences the handoff from analysis to Bank Secrecy Act reporting
• When appropriate work with law enforcement and other external partners to identify potential risks, and ensure reporting
• Ability to navigate bank data warehouses and source routine data for analysis
• Ability to influence senior leaders on mitigation techniques by using data to propose fact based solutions
• Understands what financial crimes risk looks like in the data, ability to partner across the enterprise to quantify and explain existing and emerging risks
• Able to translate that knowledge to new teammates, assist with their growth and development – leadership capabilities
• Understands the internal processes related to Fraud, AML and Sanctions risk

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of seven years of relevant experience in financial crimes
• Knowledge of anti-money laundering (AML) and related AML legislation

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in related field
• Experience in financial services and/or a related government entity
• Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS)

Skills:

• Critical Thinking
• Monitoring, Surveillance, and Testing
• Regulatory Compliance
• Risk Management
• Coaching
• Issue Management
• Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines Management
• Strategy Planning and Development
• Written Communications
• External Resource Management
• Reporting
• Talent Development

Preferred Technical Skills:

• Data Analysis, Interpretation & Decisioning
• Risk Governance & Reporting
• Risk Identification & Assessment
• Products, Services & Acumen - Line of Business (LoB) - GFC
• Financial Crimes Risk Principles
• Financial Crimes Risk Programs
• High Risk Activities & Typologies
• Threat Assessment
• Trading & Transaction Patterns (incl. Transaction Monitoring)

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40