Compliance Analyst

Title- Compliance Analyst III (AML Investigations Quality Assurance Analyst Specialist, Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU))

Location- Austin, TX (Hybrid)

Pay range- $35-40/hr on W2.

Interview- Video

Position Type- Contract (Potential to convert into full-time)

Come Join the Team

Do you want to be a foundational member of an elite compliance team operationalizing Anti Money Laundering / Counter Terrorist Financing (AML/CTF) program? Do you want to join an innovative investigative team focused on money laundering (Client) and terrorism finance (TF) and related financial crimes while building a culture of compliance as well as tools on the technological edge?

Financial Intelligence Unit

Our nascent Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) performs a critical role in the execution and management of our Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance program: adhering to a set of required standards and processes regarding AML investigations; ensuring our compliance with applicable laws and regulations, including the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), the USA PATRIOT Act, as it builds capacity to provide regulators, law enforcement with key lead information regarding the investigation and prosecution of money laundering and terrorist financing, and other closely related criminal activity; and building a "culture of compliance" to ensure efficient and effective risk and compliance management practices.

Quality Assurance Specialist, Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU)

We seek highly a motivated and experienced individual to serve as a Quality Assurance Specialist assisting the Quality Assurance (QA) Manager in its FIU.

The QA Specialist assists the QA Manager in reviewing investigations related to suspected money laundering, terrorism finance, or other related financial crimes, and filing suspicious activity reports as appropriate. As a secondary responsibility, perform in-depth Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) escalation reviews to assess the risk to our brand.

Key Responsibilities and Qualities

• Navigating through complex data, including internal and external research, in order to provide critical information in a well-documented research file that may lead to the filing of suspicious activity reports (SARs) as required by law.
• Reviewing SAR and No SAR submissions by FIU Investigators for validity, accuracy, and adherence with FIU Procedures including filing SARs directly with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and/or additional global regulatory bodies.
• Identifying, developing, and applying AML typologies, analytics, and investigative techniques in order to enhance the FIU’s investigations team and processes.
• Presenting results from QA and intelligence gathering reports, as appropriate, to the QA Manager and FIU senior management.
• Perform and support the reviews of PEP escalations, Special Interest Persons (SIP) escalation, Registration model alerts, and Periodic EDD Reviews.
• Team player with strong collaborative qualities and a positive demeanor.
• Knowledge and experience with BSA laws, regulations and related compliance requirements (including reporting and record retention requirements), international AML/CFT standards such as those promulgated by the Financial Action Task Force, OFAC compliance, and understanding of how changes in those regulations or compliance requirements affect FIU management.
• Four (4) + years of experience in the investigation and research of money laundering and/or terrorist financing in a BSA/AML compliance, federal law enforcement, or regulator environment.
• One (1) + year of experience as QA review experience.
• Ability to assist in the scoping and building of tools, and or case management system needs to conduct analysis, investigations, and created related analytics.
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with senior AML, FIU and compliance management, senior law enforcement officials, and FIU counterparts in similar regulated entities.
• Working knowledge of the risk indicator trends in money laundering, terrorist financing or other related financial crime and the ability to position our processes to ensure we are able to mitigate those risks.
• Strong writing and oral communication skills.
• Analytical, investigative research and documentation skills.
• Ability to work with agility in a fast paced, and rapidly changing environment, within time-critical situations.
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint & Access) including the use of pivot tables.
• Tableau Experience preferred.
• Microsoft Visio or (Mac) omniGraffle Experience required.
• Ability to work on confidential and sensitive matters with a high degree of professionalism and discretion.
• Anti-Money Laundering Specialist, Financial Crimes Specialist, Certified Fraud Examiner, or related professional certification preferred.