Anti-Money Laundering Analyst

Overview

Eastdil Secured is the largest independent commercial real estate investment bank in the world, by volume, with nearly $3 trillion in completed transactions over the past 15 years. We uniquely combine commercial real estate and capital markets expertise to provide clients with advisory services and investment strategies for all major markets, transaction types, and asset classes. As a privately held firm with significant employee investment, we thrive on our intelligence-driven team, state-of-the-art technology, and collaboration across 21 offices and 3 continents. Our collective experience, expertise, and resources provide us with the ability to successfully execute the world’s most impactful transactions in the capital markets.

At Eastdil Secured, we seek individuals who have the expertise, integrity and dedication needed to drive meaningful impact for our clients. We hire and advance based on merit and actively engage talent with diverse backgrounds and perspectives, fostering a culture of creativity and innovation throughout our company.

Description

We are currently looking for an Anti-Money Laundering (“AML”) analyst to join our Charlotte, NC team to help AML Compliance with sanction screening, case research and resolutions and client identification.

Essential Functions

• Works with management to continue building best-in-class AML risk program.
• Works with business units to ensure timely awareness of new clients on-boarding process.
• Performs/conducts full KYC reviews on all new client adoptions and/or periodic reviews of clients in accordance with relevant laws, regulations and firm policies as appropriate.
• Supports AML compliance in audits and regulatory examinations, as needed.
• Executes AML risk assessments for the various business groups. Evaluate inherent risk associated with products, services, customers, and geographic locations including adjustments for the quality of risk management for the category to arrive at a residual risk rating and report findings to Senior Management. Substantiate and support risk assessment with hard data, facts and references where possible.
• Builds and maintains current, detailed knowledge of anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing matters and understanding of AML and OFAC regulatory requirements and best practices related to the risk assessment process;
• Works with management of business area/category to follow-up and resolve issues identified through the risk assessment process.
• Provides subject matter expertise and training to relevant business units
• Generates reports of trends and statistics to senior management;
• Demonstrates sound judgment and decision making in the context of regulatory requirements; Broker Dealer Policies; and industry best practices.
• Reviews, investigates and understands organizational structure, accumulation and domination methodologies to assist in determining ownership and control parties to identify all ultimate beneficiaries and potential Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs)
• Supports the UK AML Team and partners with ML Officer

Education and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree (preferred)
• 4 – 5 years of experience with public records research and databases.
• 4 – 5 years of compliance, risk management or other relevant experience in the AML/BSA, OFAC areas.
• Direct experience with sanction screening, client identification and case research resolution, or escalation.
• CAMS certificate (Preferred)
• Series 79 and 63 (Preferred)

Experience, Skills and Competencies Required

• Positive and professional attitude with the ability to self-motivate.
• High level of attention to detail and accuracy
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Handles confidential information with diplomacy and discretion.
• Demonstrates knowledge of basic AML principles, displays advanced understanding of enterprise applications and collaboration tools (e.g., Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams, Zoom, SharePoint)
• Brings recommendations based on prior experience with other financial institutions.
• Applies strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to relate and clearly communicate (written and oral) with AML Compliance. Willingness to expand AML knowledge to foreign jurisdiction requirements.
• Ability to successfully organize workload, applying time management skills to multi-task and meet deadlines and work effectively with cross-functional partners.
• Be a self-starter and master of time management, consistently sustaining high levels of productivity and quality in a fast-paced high-volume environment.
• Strong sense of initiative and a process-improvement mindset

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Eastdil Secured will not sponsor visas for these positions and will not hire individuals whose work eligibility is based on, for example, F-1 or other student visa status. In addition, not only must candidates be able to work in the United States without sponsorship when hired, they must maintain the ability to work in the U.S. without sponsorship throughout their employment.