Manager, Financial Crimes Advisory (Verafin required) - Remote, U.S.

Job Description:

We are AML RightSource, the leading technology-enabled managed services firm focused on fighting financial crime for our clients and the world. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, and operating across the globe, we are a trusted partner to our financial institution, FinTech, money service business, and corporate clients.

Using a blend of highly trained anti-financial crime professionals, cutting-edge technology tools, and industry-leading consultants, we help clients with their AML/BSA, transaction monitoring, client onboarding (KYC), enhanced due diligence (EDD), and risk management needs.

We support clients in meeting day-to-day compliance tasks, urgent projects, and strategic changes. Globally, our staff of more than 6,000 highly trained analysts and subject matter experts is the industry's largest group of full-time compliance professionals. Together with our clients, we are Reimagining Compliance.

The Financial Crime Advisory (FCA) Practice at AML RightSource is made up of a team of industry and subject matter specialists that provide advisory services specific to financial crime programs, policies, and technology to C-suite-level executives across the world. Our scope of services includes, but is not limited to, program transformation, gap analysis, model validations, policy redesign, system implementation, and model optimization. Our FCA team aims to help clients build and optimize their financial crime compliance programs by leveraging a technology-enabled approach for some of the world's largest organizations.

About the Position

As a Manager in our Financial Crimes Advisory (FCA) team you will primarily be responsible for assisting Financial Crimes Advisory leadership to successfully deliver projects/engagements to clients and execute strategic initiatives designed to grow the FCA practice.

The successful candidate must possess AML and Sanctions subject matter expertise, inclusive of being knowledgeable about regulations, regulatory guidance and industry best practices in these subject matter areas.  They must be experienced in leading and coaching more junior resources to successfully deliver on their responsibilities, all while fostering an inclusive and supportive environment.  The ideal candidate will be proactive and able to work fairly autonomously.  They must be an effective verbal and written communicator, be able to juggle multiple priorities effectively, and excel in collaborative environments.

Primary Responsibilities

Engagement Delivery

• Successfully work on multiple, sometimes simultaneous, AML, Sanctions and Fraud (collectively "financial crimes") engagements being delivered to our clients across their three lines of defense.  Projects include but not limited to those focused on risk assessments, audits, gap assessments, policy and procedure development, training development and delivery, program design and transformation, regulatory remediation, system implementations, model validations, coverage assessments, and systems tunings.  For more complex financial crimes engagements, lead the delivery of at least one workstream / component of the engagement.
• Prepare reports and written documents utilizing Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, writing in a clear, concise and articulate manner.
• Provide direction to engagement teams and review engagement team work product.
• Ensure engagements meet client expectations, and come in within budgets and communicated timelines.
• Effectively identify, escalate and manage risks and issues as they arise during engagements.   Serve as an escalation point for more junior team members.
• Attend and actively participate in or lead, where necessary, key client meetings.
• During the course of engagements, identify opportunities for additional work to be delivered to existing clients.

Sales and Go-To-Market

• Assist leadership with opportunity management, proposal development, SOW preparation, budgeting and other sales related efforts.
• Stay up to date on emerging regulatory requirements and guidance, as well as industry trends.
• Develop, maintain and nurture an internal and external network of financial crimes advisory services buyers.
• Support business development initiatives, as directed by Advisory leadership.

Internal Initiatives and People Leadership

• Assist leadership with the execution of an effective growth strategy for the FCA practice.
• Recruit, train and develop FCA team members. 
• Provide periodic, balanced performance feedback to team members.
• Serve as a People Leader to junior team members.
• Lead by example and put the core values of the company into practice, creating an environment where t