Financial Crimes Investigation Mgr

Posted Mar 10

The Financial Crimes Investigation Manager is a seasoned compliance professional that manages the Company's AML Financial Crimes Investigators. As such, the role is responsible for identifying, assessing, and escalating potential money laundering and operational reputational risks associated with money laundering and terrorist financing and ensure compliance with applicable Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) /Anti Money Laundering (AML) and Anti-Terrorist Financing (ATF) requirements and 314 requirements.

What you'll do:

  • Maintains a high degree of knowledge and understanding of money laundering and terrorist financing issues, including policies, procedures, regulations, industry best practices, criminal activities, and developing trends.
  • Oversees and manages all levels of financial crimes investigators and all aspects of investigations to include alert review, accessing investigations, case management, UAR and SAR filings to ensure timely completion, quality assurance, and compliance with all applicable policies, procedures and requirements.
  • Coach, manage and mentor the day-to-day work of a team of Financial Crimes Investigators to help develop investigators and assess continuous review of organizational structures to ensure best in class process and ensure continuous monitoring.
  • Make supervisory and tactical decisions and resolve issues related to team supervision, work allocation, and daily operations under the direction of functional area management.
  • Develops training, mentoring, and tools to assist in understanding financial crimes investigations, schemes, and requirements for compliant investigations and filings.
  • Partners with stakeholders, as necessary, in researching financial crimes investigations to ensure compliance with applicable state and federal regulations and contractual obligations. May collaborate directly with stakeholders in matters of BSA/AML compliance.
  • Identify opportunities for process improvement and risk control development in various financial crime functions, metric reporting, operational standards and systematic controls
  • Maintain awareness of financial crimes activity companywide and ensure all issues are proactively addressed and escalated where necessary.
  • Leverage interpretation of policies, procedures, and compliance requirements.
  • Ensure coordination with the team, line of business, other business units, Audit, and regulators on risk-related topics.
  • Maintains a thorough understanding of money laundering and terrorist financing issues, including policies, procedures, regulations, industry best practices, criminal activities, and developing trends.
  • Ability to assist in research, analysis, and updating organization on applicable state and federal requirements.

What we need from you:

  • Bachelor's Degree
  • CAMS certified or equivalent demonstrated through military experience, education, or job experience.
  • Eight (8) or more years of experience in AML Financial Crime Investigations
  • Comprehensive understanding of merchant processing and all types of financial crime patterns, thorough knowledge of the Bank Secrecy Act and the USA PATRIOT Act.
  • Prior research using investigative and risk analysis tools like Lexis/Nexis. Westlaw, etc.
  • Ability to execute against the BSA/AML Officer's strategic vision for BSA/AML operational tempo and design.
  • Experienced with financial crimes monitoring and surveillance activities and systems.
  • Excellent research and analytical skills with strong attention to detail.
  • Accuracy, diligence, and the ability to deliver high-quality results within tight deadlines with good risk awareness.
  • Ability to build constructive relationships with people both similar and different than self, s with a focus on collaboration.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to deliver messages in a clear, compelling, and concise manner. .
  • Effective critical thinking with the ability to pivot with environmental and organizational changes.
  • Excellent ability to uncover the root cause to difficult problems by asking the right questions and acquiring data from multiple and diverse sources.
  • Talented in building effective teams by creating a culture of belonging, establishing common objectives, sharing wins, and fostering open dialogue and collaboration among the team.
  • Ability to execute against the BSA/AML Officer's strategic vision for BSA/AML operational tempo and design
  • Ability to drive results within a team to meet deadlines and produce quality investigations by delegating in a way that empowers ownership and sets clear directions and accountabilities.

Travel Requirements: Under 15%

Who we are:

North American Bancard

helps businesses prosper through smarter commerce for all and we're committed to building the next generation of payment technologies and experiences. More than 250,000 satisfied merchants trust us to process more than $34 billion worth of transactions every single year. Propelled by cutting-edge technology, user-friendly products and features, and the best customer service in the business, we continue to innovate to satisfy our clients and their customers.

At North American Bancard, we celebrate diversity and create an inclusive environment for everyone. We are an equal opportunity employer.