About the company
As a Financial Crimes Quality Assurance Sr. Analyst, you will help strengthen the quality, consistency, and effectiveness of Second Line of Defense financial crimes oversight. You’ll perform complex QA reviews across BSA/AML, Sanctions, and Fraud activities, evaluating the quality of risk-based judgments, issue identification, escalation, and remediation.
Responsibilities
- Perform quality checks and complex, high-risk QA reviews of Second Line of Defense financial crimes activities across BSA/AML, Sanctions, and Fraud.
- Evaluate analyst work for accuracy, completeness, consistency, appropriate risk-based judgment, and alignment with internal standards and regulatory expectations.
- Assess the effectiveness of Second Line oversight, including whether issues are appropriately identified, escalated, challenged, and resolved.
- Review deficiencies, observations, and issues identified during QA activities for appropriateness, completeness, severity, and supporting evidence.
- Assist with validating issue remediation and reviewing closure documentation for identified findings.
- Provide coaching, technical guidance, feedback, and on-the-job training to QA Analysts.
- Support calibration activities to promote consistent QA methodologies, assessments, and outcomes across the team.
- Identify recurring issues, emerging trends, anomalies, and potential control weaknesses.
- Assist in developing and maintaining QA methodologies tailored to Second Line oversight and challenge functions.
- Develop and refine test scripts, defect taxonomies, and scoring frameworks.
- Support QA reporting, metrics, management updates, and other materials used to communicate program performance.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Risk Management, or a related field.
- 5–8+ years of progressive experience in financial crimes, including AML, Sanctions, Fraud, or related compliance functions.
- Direct experience in Second Line of Defense financial crimes oversight, or quality assurance/testing of financial crimes functions.
- Strong knowledge of BSA/AML and sanctions regulatory expectations and financial crime risk management frameworks.
- Solid understanding of roles and responsibilities within a Three Lines of Defense model.
- Experience reviewing complex financial crime cases and providing effective oversight, challenge, and judgment.
- Strong analytical, critical-thinking, and professional judgment skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- CAMS, CFE, CRCM, or equivalent AML certification is preferred.
- Experience with Transaction Monitoring, Suspicious Activity Investigations, CDD/EDD, or Sanctions compliance is preferred.
Conditions
- $50,000–$84,000 annual salary range.
- Annual performance-based incentive opportunity.
- Remote work environment with hybrid remote-office flexibility.
- Health insurance.
- 401(k) retirement benefits.
- Life insurance.
- Disability benefits.
- Paid time off.