We are currently seeking a Financial Crimes Quality Assurance Analyst to join our team. This position can be located in either our Salt Lake City, Utah or Phoenix, Arizona location.
- Responsible for conducting QA reviews of the intelligence work products (Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR), Investigative Summaries, Assessments, Enhanced Due Diligence Reviews, Currency Transaction Reports (CTRs), KYC Reviews and AML recordkeeping) of the Financial Intelligence Operations.
- Executes against strategies and maintains the highest levels of quality intelligence work products set forth by internal standards and federal law.
- Responsible for technical reviews of SARs to include validating data contained within the SAR form and SAR narrative, CTRs and Monetary Instrument Logs (MILs) and KYC documentation.
- Technical validations include utilizing case files and source systems to ensure data quality and accuracy.
- Responsible for narrative reviews of SARs to include ensuring decision, analytic and research quality standards have been met in accordance with the FIU’s operational procedures and an intuitive cursory of the SAR’s fact pattern to ensure a sound basis for filing has been met and is reasonably supported by fact based analysis.
- Responsible for technical and narrative reviews of Investigative Summaries to include validating data and ensuring decision, analytic and research quality standards have been met in accordance with the FIU’s operational procedures.
- Intuitive cursory reviews of the fact pattern as articulated to support the decision not to file a SAR.
- Continuously develops knowledge base of financial crime matters.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Requires a Bachelor’s degree in business, Intelligence Studies, Criminal Justice, Political Science, Law or related field and 1+ year AML experience, specifically handling SARs and complex financial crime matters, auditing this area and/or criminal investigative or intelligence experience as an end user of SAR/FinCEN/BSA data and/or experience as internal auditor, state/federal regulator or compliance testing specialist. A combination of education and experience may meet job requirements.
- Relevant Professional Certifications (CAMS, CFE, CFCS, CIA) is a plus.
- Basic working knowledge of BSA, AML, SARs, investigative summaries, assessments, due diligence and audit reviews, Currency Transaction Reports (CTRs) and KYC Reviews.
- Ability to articulate sensitive and challenging positions on issues involving multiple parties.
- An ability to influence multiple parties based on sound logical reasoning and fact based analysis.
- Must have good interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Ability to identify and solve problems or issues.
- Must be detail oriented and a self starter.
- Requires solid project management and organizational skills.
- Proficient in word processing, spreadsheet or other related software programs.
