The FC Legal Investigations team carries out the company's enterprise-wide financial intelligence and suspicious activity investigation and reporting function. FC Legal Investigation's primary mission is to mitigate company risk through excellence in suspicious activity investigations and reporting. The team works closely with the company's Financial Crimes Compliance (FCC) group, regulatory enforcement investigations, Information Security and Legal departments. Activity investigated by the team includes money laundering, terrorist financing, corruption, fraud (, market manipulation, data breaches and economic sanctions violations.
Responsibilities:
Conducting proactive investigations to address money laundering and terrorist financing concerns in alignment with the National Priorities issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).
Analyzing complex transactional data, performing in-depth research, decisioning cases stemming from proactive investigations, drafting Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs), and making recommendations to escalate concerns to internal stakeholders.
Demonstrates a strong understanding of global financial crimes money flows.
Drafting timely, error-free and SARs and No SARs that follow FinCEN regulations and the team's internal guidance and policies.
Managing a portfolio of case work in an organized manner with the ability to work efficiently within tight deadlines.
This team member must also effectively communicate and develop relationships with internal stakeholders and collaborate on significant investigative matters.
The team member will be expected to apply an understanding of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and the USA PATRIOT Act and apply it to the banking products and services offered by the organization.
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience required.
Graduate Degree in Law, Business, Intelligence Studies, or International Relations preferred.
7-10 years of total work experience preferred.
Experience working for a financial institution in an AML investigations function, particularly in the correspondent banking space, and/or ACAMS (Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists) certification and intelligence work in the private or public sector preferred.