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Global Financial Crimes Investigator

Charlotte, North Carolina;Atlanta, Georgia; Phoenix, Arizona; Chicago, Illinois; Jacksonville, Florida

Job Description:

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Job Description:

This job is responsible for performing end-to-end investigations or investigations support functions of external financial crimes activities across one or more lines of business. Key responsibilities include conducting routine to complex investigations, including fraud committed by external parties, money laundering, or terrorist financing and acting as the liaison to Law Enforcement as required.

Responsibilities:

• Completes investigations while overseeing cases meet or exceed closure and quality metrics

• Completes Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR) in a timely and accurate manner for submission to regulators and/or law enforcement

• Reports facts of the investigation to senior stakeholders, assisting in identifying potential operational or compliance risks and partners with Global Financial Crimes (GFC) Management and/or Front Line Units (FLU) to resolve investigations

• Performs quality control functions, training, communications, guidance, monitoring scenario development/enhancement input and testing, or law enforcement liaison responsibilities in an investigative support role

• Conduct routine to complex investigations in diversified operations including identifying organized criminal activities and fraud including AML events committed against the Bank by external parties.

• Adhere to all Compliance, Regulatory Requirements, policy, and procedures. Network with Law Enforcement to pursue prosecutions of fraud suspects.

• Must be able to identify and effectively mitigate strategies, analyze, evaluate data and information resulting in thorough documentation of investigations.

• Identify control weaknesses, gaps in products, processes or services which create risk. Make recommendations to Front Line Units and other business partners to mitigate loss and risk; Identify and escalate violations of policy and procedure.

• Participates in or leads investigative related task forces or special projects representing high profile, complex criminal networks, or significant loss exposure.

• Authors comprehensive, error free reports outlining criminal activity, file detailed regulatory reports, criminal complaints, including all supporting evidence, and testifies in court proceedings.

• May direct or coordinate activities of multiple investigators on complex investigations and provide technical guidance on unique skills or to less experienced investigators.

• May have conversations with victims, suspects or involved parties.

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in financial crimes, including financial crimes investigations, fraud, compliance, risk, anti-money laundering, or financial assets/products

• Experience in manual report writing (compliance reporting, regulatory reporting, SARs reports)

• Proficiency with MS Excel for reporting, data management and analysis

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in related field

• Experience in financial services and/or a related government entity

• Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS)

• Previous financial crimes investigative experience preferred

• Excellent understanding of financial crimes including fraud and AML

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; analytical skills with reviewing and applying large amounts of data

• Strong knowledge and skills with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

• Requires excellent organizational and time management skills; strong attention to detail, with the ability to successfully manage multiple tasks

• Self-starter capable of analyzing and reporting independently

• Critical thinker who is intellectually curious

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40

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