Financial Crime Independent Testing Manager

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Job Description:

Financial Crime Independent Testing Manager

Crowe is looking for a detail-oriented individual to join our fast-paced Financial Services Financial Crime Compliance team.  When you become a part of our Financial Crime team you will work with a broad array of professions who take pride in providing cutting edge industry AML and regulatory best practices with the goal of assisting clients administering a sound and compliant AML risk management environment. The ideal candidate will have a solid understanding of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) laws; regulatory consent order action plans and artifact validation; risk and control matrices; and design/operational effectiveness testing. This position would focus on long-term AML consent order validations (12+ months) at complex large and mid-sized financial institutions.  Projects are facilitated remotely in a team atmosphere. Job expectations include:

• Assisting financial services clients who are under consent orders in need of remediation/validation of artifact packages
• Managing multiple teams and workstreams and providing performance feedback to all members of those teams
• Developing relationships with a variety of clients
• Anticipating and addressing client concerns and resolving problems as they arise
• Promoting new ideas and business solutions that result in extended services to existing clients
• Serving as a career coach and mentor for new staff

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Advanced verbal and written communication skills
• Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (CAMS), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Information Systems Analyst (CISA), Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager (CRCM) or other relevant professional certification
• 5+ years’ experience in leading or facilitating AML/BSA reviews, consulting/advisory services and/or internal audit/compliance reviews at globally diversified financial services organizations
• Prior financial services internal audit consulting or financial services third line internal audit experience
• Experience providing oversight and managing the development and testing process against remediation action plans
• Experience with second or third line control effectiveness testing against remediation action plans
• Effective project and time management, collaboration, and communication skill with all levels of the organization, including excellent organizational skills and experience monitoring deadlines and tracking documentation for timely submission to senior management and/or regulators.
• Experience identifying, assessing, challenging and overseeing the satisfactory resolution of issues, including ensuring adequate management of remediation plans and validation
• Ability to travel up to 5% if requested for project(s)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated supervisory, management and/or team leadership experience, preferably in a consulting environment for all phases of an audit, inclusive of planning, conducting and documenting process walkthroughs, developing and executing test procedures and reporting of deliverables
• High proficiency with AML/BSA regulatory requirements for retail banking activities, products and services, inclusive of a high level of expertise in banking regulations, directives and guidance
• Experience in developing/reporting of KRIs/KPIs for consent order validations
• Experience submitting written or oral reports of audit results to senior management and audit committees including findings, analysis, conclusions and recommended actions
• Knowledge and practical use of statistical analytics and testing methods
• Experience working in a project environment with top 50 banks
• Experience working in a professional services or project-based environment

We expect the candidate to uphold Crowe’s values of Care, Trust, Courage, and