Senior Financial Crimes Specialist - Quality Assurance

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Financial Crimes Specialist

In this role you will:

• Lead or participate in moderately complex initiatives and deliverables within functional area and contribute to largescale planning related to functional area deliverables
• Investigate research examine and report complex financial crimes transactions policy violations and suspicious situations with high levels of risk
• Perform risk evaluation and modeling to provide input and recommendations for financial crimes strategies and models
• Evaluate the adequacy and effectiveness of policies procedures processes and internal controls
• Conduct data and onsite reviews review findings determine risk level and recommend resulting fraud prevention strategies
• Perform investigative research root cause assessment and consulting regarding highly complex financial crimes transactions policy violations and suspicious situations with moderate to high risk
• Perform detailed examination to detect transactional and relationship patterns trends anomalies and schemes across multiple businesses or products
• Act as an escalation point for more complex cases
• Resolve moderately complex issues and lead a team to meet deliverables
• Partner closely with leadership to develop strategies to minimize financial crime portfolio risk through innovative methods with the ultimate goal of maximizing profits
• Provide leadership within the team
• Serve as a liaison and represent the organization in handling court appearances depositions mediations and arbitrations
• Collaborate and consult with peers colleagues and midlevel managers to resolve issues and achieve goals
• Lead projects teams or serve as a mentor for less experienced staff
• Develop and deliver a wide range of training for individuals involved in issue detection
• Interact internally and externally to conduct investigations or to address risk management

Required Qualifications:

• 4 years of Financial Crimes Operational Risk Fraud Sanctions AntiBribery experience or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience training military experience education

Desired Qualifications

• Experience in Financial Crimes Operational Risk Fraud Sanctions AntiBribery or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience training military experience education

Job Expectations:

• In this role you will:
  Provide support and evaluation/validation guidance to quality assurance staff by answering questions on regulations or compliance procedures and policies
  Escalate key maintenance errors identified during evaluation & validation process and ensure resolution of same reviewing programs processes documentation to ensure compliance with internal company requirements or government regulations
  Review systems to ensure company standards are met exceptions are notated and issues escalated as necessary
  Assist in development and design of product specific databases
  Review and evaluate work
  Prepare calibration feedback and facilitate calibrations across the team to ensure consistency of quality evaluations delivered to clients
  Monitor quality assurance programs and processes to identify gaps and risk assessment
  Design and conduct training as needed
  Provide coaching to staff and track performance expectations and results
  Make final evaluation decisions on disputes which impact quality results
  Interact with staff and business partners to promote teamwork and departmental effectivenes

• Evaluate output from the Global Sanctions Office & AML Program which includes Corporate Politically Exposed Persons Global Sanctions Screening & Reporting and Enhanced Due Diligence.
  Effectively manage a personal work queue and consistently deliver error free quality control reviews.
  Use approved policies and procedures in order to complete reviews that are clear concise and easily understood by due diligence consultants and leaders.
  Examine and analyze programs processes and/or files of unusual complex and/or higher risk transactions to ensure compliance with internal company requirements and/or agency or government regulations.
  Clearly communicate overall process or transaction quality and provide feedback to appropriate contacts regarding identified material deficiencies or issues including identification of inconsistencies.
  Analyze risks and offset and develop solutions for problems identified.
  Work directly with peers and leaders throughout all groups within the Customer Due Diligence Group.
  
  In this role the candidate could potentially participate in multiple projects across Financial Crimes Risk Management. They will be expected to adhere to all relevant milestones for which they are accountable and provide project sponsors/leaders with timely project status updates while keeping them aware of any issues that may cause a delay in the project or milestone completion.
  
  
  

Posting End Date:

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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