Financial Crimes Analyst - AML, Trade Finance Products

Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Financial Crimes Analyst – AML, Trade Finance Products in Charlotte, NC or El Paso, TX (Hybrid).

Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is a long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today.

Contract Duration: 1 year

Required Skills & Experience

• 4 years of risk management, business controls, business operations, compliance, or process experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
• Commercial banking and credit analysis experience
• Strong understanding of financial crimes risk
• Trade Finance Products experience
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate risks and to communicate relevant risk in a simple, decisive, timely and market-appropriate manner.
• Ability to think with a risk control mindset.
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Advanced MS Excel including the ability to manage extremely large and complex sets of transactional data (v-lookups, pivot table, charts)
• Demonstrated ability to build strong partnerships across business units.
• Industry certifications (e.g. CAMS certified and/or AML/Sanctions Credential Program, etc.)
  
  

What You Will Be Doing

• Review Trade Finance transactions to identify material heightened risk activity based on common red flag; assess the risks presented and recommend commensurate risk mitigation steps if warranted; and complete product transaction due diligence forms establishing customer activity baselines.
• Work with 1,000s of rows and cells of data in Microsoft Excel to identify risk based on multiple factors including industries and geographical locations of parties to transactions, underlying goods shipped, transaction sizes, etc.
• Work with the group’s technology partners, mid-level managers, and cross-functional business partners to develop strategies, techniques and tools to facilitate the advancement of reviews.
• Write bolstered observations and risk dispositions that help business partners better understand customers behavior and manage the risk.
• Serve as an Anti-money laundering / Counter Threat Finance subject matter expert for more junior members of the team.
  
  

Posted By: Chris Clark