Senior Financial Crime Prevention Specialist

We are seeking an experienced Financial Crime Risk Analyst to join our team. As a key member of our Financial Crimes Division, you will be responsible for conducting AML and KYC checks for a global investment bank.

This role requires strong analytical and investigative skills to conduct reviews on alerts generated for transaction monitoring or screening alerts in Sanctions, Adverse Media, and Politically Exposed Persons.

• Conduct review on alerts generated for transaction monitoring or screening alerts in Sanctions, Adverse Media, and Politically Exposed Persons.
• Conduct open source search to find relevant information to complete the investigation and review of transactions monitoring alerts.
• Capture information and documents from internal systems as per established norms of bank's KYC policy.
• Investigate potential trading issues flagged by the business units such as the Global Markets Division and Investment Banking.
• Liaise with the Compliance Surveillance Analytics Group and Compliance Information Technology in the development, review, and testing of new existing automated surveillance models and output.
• Build a 'gap assessment letter' to summarize all missing checks but are risk-relevant.
• Conduct false positive analysis on matches identified for counterparties alerted during watch list sanctions and adverse media screening.
• Mitigate or call out true hits for AML adverse concerns and collaborate closely for further action.
• Close interaction with customer business as an SME in the area of AML compliance.
• Adherence to critical metrics and business SLAs is mandatory.
• Responsible for preparing and reporting out their own SLAs.

To be successful in this role, you should possess the following qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree and CAMS preferred.
• Excellent communication and analytical skills.
• MS Office applications like Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.

• Relevant experience processing transaction monitoring, KYC screening fraud workflows within FCRM preferred.
• Experience filling and filing Suspicious Activity Reports SARs.
• Proficiency and/or fluency in a secondary language Spanish, Italian, German, Chinese, Russian, French, Arabic, etc.
• Experience with retail business correspondent banking brokerage or institutional transaction monitoring, KYC, screening for all types of client entities, like but not limited to individual, sole proprietor, partnership, trusts, private and public limited companies, and collective investment schemes.
• End-to-end understanding of Transaction Monitoring, KYC, Screening fraud operations from documentary and non-documentary verification and as per relevant policy nature of business source of wealth funds and customer screening against a watchlist of sanctions PEP and adverse media.
• Ability to independently research, analyze, and recommend solutions to close open items and discrepancies with the client.
• Outstanding analytical and investigative skills combined with the ability to navigate through ambiguity in a fast-paced multifaceted environment.
• Excellent understanding of transaction monitoring, KYC, screening fraud terminology.
• Should have experience in using various risk case management systems such as Actimize.
• Experience processing financial crimes risk management typologies as related to brokerage and virtual currency exchanges.
• Relevant experience in MS Office applications like Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.

We are an equal opportunities employer and consider applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, military veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.

We are committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values respect and integrity, customer focus, and innovation.