Our client, a Global Investment Banking Company, is seeking a Anti-Financial Crime Risk Management Specialist for a 6 month contract opportunity. This is a hybrid position, requiring to work on-site in their Jacksonville, FL office.

The candidate will play a critical role in developing and implementing a comprehensive framework for identifying and addressing customers involved in Anti-Financial Crime (AFC) risk events, such as Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs).

Responsibilities will include:

- Increasing customer risk ratings

- Conducting enhanced due diligence

- Implementing more frequent and thorough transaction monitoring

- Issuing customer restriction notices

- Limiting transactional flows

- Escalating cases to Global AFC for clients with global banking relationships

- Terminating customer relationships when necessary

Key Responsibilities:

- Support the establishment of a list of AFC risk events requiring escalation and review.

- Actively participate in the Customer Risk Working Group alongside AFC teams and business partners to:

- Assess whether customer relationships need further analysis due to AFC risk events

- Determine if escalation to Senior Management is necessary

- Propose actions to manage customer risk

- Collaborate with the business and Corporate Bank AFC Advisory to review correspondent bank customers with heightened AFC risk events.

- Present escalated customers and proposed actions to the Americas AFC Risk Identification Forum (RIF) for review and decision-making.

- Lead discussions at the RIF, including preparing agendas and materials.

- Track decisions and actions from the RIF, ensuring all actions are assigned and completed.

- Disseminate customer risk metrics, such as triggers and SAR trends, to the RIF.

- Ensure alignment between business-owned forums and the RIF.

- Conduct customer reviews as requested by Global AFC.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent; JD or MBA is a plus

- 1-3 years of experience in AFC functions or in business roles supporting AFC programs

- Strong knowledge of bank customers, products, and services

Preferred Skills:

- Experience with regulators is advantageous

- Some experience in leading and conducting financial crime investigations

- Experience with multiple AFC programs (AML, Sanctions, ABC, Fraud)

- Strong communication and presentation skills

- Ability to act decisively and handle multiple projects simultaneously

- Demonstrated organizational and strategic agility

- Ability to work independently, managing projects and deliverables to completion

- Strong influencing and presentation skills for all levels of internal management