Financial Crimes Compliance Manager

Job Family:

Investigator

Travel Required:

Up to 10%

Clearance Required:

None

Financial Crimes Compliance Manager

Opportunities available for Supervisors (Leads) and Managers

• This requisition has been posted for the purpose of pipelining building relationships with qualified candidates in order to potentially hire them into future openings within GMS - FS.

• GMS - FS is currently proactively gathering and engaging candidates of interest and will then be able to match them with positions that become available in the future.

What You Will Do:

Guidehouse is seeking an experienced compliance supervisor to serve as a Team Lead overseeing a team Senior Analysts and Analysts executing BSA/AML/Sanctions and regulatory compliance functions on behalf of our clients. The Financial Crimes Compliance Supervisor will be responsible for driving team performance and quality.  

The responsibilities will include:

• Manage and supervise a team of Senior Analysts and Analysts, executing across a variety of regulatory compliance and financial crime-related functions, to include, but not limited to, Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), Anti-Money Laundering, Office of Foreign Asset Controls (OFAC), Know Your Customer (KYC), including Identification Verification (ID&V), Customer Due Diligence (CDD), Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD), and Ongoing Monitoring, and/or fraud investigations for our client.

• Oversee team performance regarding production and quality.

• Support Managers and senior leadership with service delivery efforts, such as tracking key performance indicators, developing training materials, and evaluating performance, as appropriate.

• Perform quality assurance reviews of team’s work product in accordance with client QA expectations.

• Accurately and thoroughly assessing team, work product quality and leveraging practices consistent with industry standards to provide coaching and constructive feedback to team to ensure quality decisions and appropriate review of potential illegal activity. 

• Monitor and manage work queues across processes and prioritize assignments to minimize operational impact.

• Monitor, manage and communicate production metrics on an individual and team level across project resources.

• Create and present quality deliverables that support essential project workstreams. 

• Provide guidance to analysts based on client expectations and prior subject matter experience.

• Lead training efforts to ensure consistency and quality across the team through large and small group meetings and 1-on-1 discussions.

• Consistently monitor the assigned team for effectiveness and efficiency and target areas of weakness.

• Serve as performance manager for junior team members.

• Other ad hoc project responsibilities, as needed.

What You Will Need:

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 5 years relevant experience (level dependent) OR 9-11+ years of experience in lieu of a degree (level dependent).

• Strong leadership and time management skills.

• Ability to manage and prioritize several tasks simultaneously and autonomously.  

• Subject matter expertise /investigative experience in the areas of Financial Crimes Compliance such as OFAC Sanctions, Anti-Money Laundering, KYC, CDD, EDD and/or Financial Fraud Investigations.

• Understanding of the legal, corporate governance, and regulatory environment related to the BSA and USA PATRIOT Act, as well as knowledge of industry practices for operationalizing controls.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills including developing presentations for different audiences (Client Stakeholders, Senior Level Executives, Guidehouse Leadership).

• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Suite Products.

• Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new policies, procedures, and vendor systems.

• Ability to handle privileged and confidential information.

• Ability to deliver clear, constructive feedback and driving both individual and team performance.

• A demonstrable willingness to work more than 40 hours when needed.

What Would Be Nice To Have:

• CAMS certification.

• End to end understanding of Transaction Monitoring/ Screening/ Fraud Operations/ SAR Reporting/Identification and Verification of Customers, KYC, CDD and EDD.

• Experience conducting quality assurance reviews related to financial crime investigations.

What We Offer:

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