Senior Analyst - Global Financial Crimes

Job Description:

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Job Description:
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.

Additional 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

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

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in risk management, financial crimes investigations, anti-money laundering (AML), Fraud, and/or Economic Sanctions regulations
• Data analytics experience, including writing/editing SQL and/or strong Excel (macros), or Python  or similar technical experience
• Experience translating complex information into automated, impactful, actionable risk analytics
• Experience communicating reports/ing in an executive-ready manner 

Desired Qualifications:

• Knowledge of anti-money laundering (AML) and related AML legislation
• Prior law enforcement experience working financial crimes
• Strong business acumen preferred 
• Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) certification, and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) certification preferred Visit http://www.acams.org">www.acams.org to learn more

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40

Pay Transparency details

US - DC - Washington - 1800 K St NW - 1800 K Street NW (DC1842)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$103,000.00 - $165,300.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.