Financial Crimes - Transaction Monitoring Specialist, Assistant Vice President

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The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details.

Job Summary

Reporting to a Team Manager within the Director, DTO Americas organization, this newly created role has been established to support the continued development of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Transaction Monitoring capabilities across MUFG.

As a key member of the Global Financial Crimes Division Operations function, the Senior AML Transaction Monitoring Specialist will be responsible for identifying and developing financial crime detection scenarios, providing advanced analytics support for transaction monitoring optimization efforts, and coordinating the implementation of monitoring models designed to detect suspicious activity. This role will partner with regional and global stakeholders to enhance transaction monitoring effectiveness, strengthen financial crime controls, and drive a globally consistent approach to risk mitigation.

Key Responsibilities

Transaction Monitoring & Scenario Development

• Design, develop, and enhance AML transaction monitoring scenarios and detection strategies.
• Perform quantitative analysis to support scenario tuning, calibration, optimization, and customer segmentation initiatives.
• Evaluate transaction monitoring model performance and recommend enhancements to improve alert quality and effectiveness.
• Support large-scale strategic optimization and segmentation programs across the Global Financial Crimes Division.

Data Analytics & Model Optimization

• Conduct detailed analysis of customer, account, KYC, and transactional data to identify trends, patterns, and emerging risks.
• Develop and maintain analytical models supporting transaction monitoring and screening programs.
• Perform scenario threshold testing, segmentation analysis, and model calibration activities.
• Execute above-the-line (ATL), below-the-line (BTL), and what-if analytics testing methodologies.

Program Implementation & Governance

• Coordinate with regional and global teams to implement transaction monitoring scenarios and model enhancements.
• Collaborate with Compliance, Financial Crimes, Risk Management, Technology, and Operations teams to ensure effective program execution.
• Support governance efforts and documentation associated with transaction monitoring model development and implementation.
• Assist leadership in driving continuous improvements across AML monitoring capabilities and financial crime risk management frameworks.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with stakeholders across GFCD and business units to establish clearly defined roles, responsibilities, and operational processes.
• Support regulatory examinations, audits, and program reviews related to transaction monitoring effectiveness.
• Contribute to strategic initiatives that enhance enterprise-wide financial crime detection capabilities.

Required Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Quantitative Analysis, Computer Science, Data Science, Technology Sciences, or a related field required.
• Advanced degree preferred.

Experience

• Minimum 5 years of experience designing, analyzing, testing, validating, or optimizing BSA/AML transaction monitoring models and/or OFAC sanctions screening models.
• Experience implementing, testing, or evaluating financial crime compliance systems.
• Strong understanding of AML data, including customer, account, KYC, and transactional datasets.
• Experience developing model tuning, calibration, segmentation, and optimization methodologies.

Technical Skills

• Hands-on experience with one or more programming languages or analytical platforms: SQL Python SAS R
• Familiarity with transaction monitoring platforms such as Actimize SAM.
• Strong quantitative and statistical analysis skills, including: Classification accuracy testing Name matching methodologies Fuzzy logic matching Decision trees Machine learning techniques Neural networks Unsupervised and supervised modeling approaches

Regulatory Knowledge

• Strong understanding of: Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations OFAC sanctions requirements USA PATRIOT Act FinCEN guidance FATF recommendations OCC, FRB, and SEC regulatory expectations

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience interfacing directly with banking regulators, examiners, and enforcement agencies.
• Strong understanding of financial crime risk management frameworks.
• Experience supporting enterprise-wide transaction monitoring modernization or optimization initiatives.
• Knowledge of banking products, services, and transaction processing systems.

Competencies

• Strategic and systemic thinker with strong analytical capabilities.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously.
• Detail-oriented with excellent organizational skills and execution discipline.
• Strong interpersonal, collaboration, and communication skills.
• Ability to influence stakeholders across all levels of the organization.
• Sound judgment and effective decision-making capabilities.
• Proven ability to balance regulatory requirements with business objectives and customer interests.
• Strong presentation and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work independently while thriving in a highly collaborative environment.

Why Join MUFG?

This role offers the opportunity to help shape and enhance a global AML Transaction Monitoring program within one of the world's leading financial institutions. The successful candidate will play a critical role in advancing monitoring capabilities, improving financial crime detection effectiveness, and supporting MUFG's commitment to maintaining a best-in-class compliance and risk management framework.

The typical base pay range for this role is between $91K - $118K depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation. Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays. For more information on our Total Rewards package, please click the link below.

MUFG Benefits Summary

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (including (i) the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, (ii) the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, (iii) the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, and (iv) the California Fair Chance Act) to the extent that (a) an applicant is not subject to a statutory disqualification pursuant to Section 3(a)(39) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 8a(2) or 8a(3) of the Commodity Exchange Act, and (b) they do not conflict with the background screening requirements of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the National Futures Association (NFA). The major responsibilities listed above are the material job duties of this role for which the Company reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of conditional offer of employment, if any.The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel so classified.We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to leveraging the diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experience of our workforce to create opportunities for our colleagues and our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender expression, gender identity, sex, age, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran and military status, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status of an individual or that individual’s associates or relatives that is protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.