Overview

We are committed to the highest standards of control in the areas of Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Sanctions & Embargoes, Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC) and Anti-Fraud (collectively referred to as Anti-Financial Crime or AFC). All employees are required to adhere to these standards to protect the Bank and our reputation from those who may intend to use our products and services for illegal purposes including, but not necessarily limited to, money laundering, bribery, corruption, fraud and/or Terrorist Financing. The purpose of the AML Financial Crime Operations (FCO) team is to ensure that the systems it is tasked with surveillance are at all times being used in accordance with the legal and regulatory AML framework within the Americas and to escalate issues of concern to AML Management in a timely manner.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and oversee BTL team of analysts to AVP level that are responsible for implementing and maintaining an automated strategic MI and reporting framework as well as providing technical and functional soundness of AML models and tools to provide effective challenge to the AML model life cycle area
• Partner with the Analytics Team to focus on scenario coverage. Directly manage the BTL testing team and provide quality control of the results to be provided to the Analytics team to effectuate appropriate tuning and optimization
• Work proactively and collaboratively across functional teams within FCO and other departments to identify and acquire quality data within reporting standards and guidelines
• Understand the full scope of the end-to-end transaction monitoring investigative process
• Work directly with the FCO management to identify and escalate open issues that represent risk
• Understand business and regulatory requirements and ensure functions are being performed in those requirements

Your Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or advanced degree in Economics, MIS, Information Management or Finance preferred
• Extensive AML experience within a transaction monitoring/ BTL testing environment with clear understanding of AML models, rules, scenarios and its data attributes
• Knowledge of financial crime compliance investigation process
• Ability to lead a team of professionals by goal setting and driving completion of assigned tasks
• Ability to interact with Infrastructure and other appropriate groups in a fast paced environment

How You’ll Lead:

• Effective decision making skills and strong problem solving skills
• Knowledge of Correspondent banking, Global Markets and Wealth Management businesses is preferred
• Excellent knowledge of Mantas, Norkom and Actimize is preferred