Anti-Money Laundering Senior Associate

As a Financial Crimes Senior Associate, you will get the opportunity to grow and contribute to our clients' business needs by helping them identify and mitigate potential risks, address, resolve regulatory enforcement actions and help safeguard their organizations– all with the resources, environment, and support to help you excel. The Anti-Money Laundering and Regulatory Compliance Practice assist their clients in all aspects of AML, from customer on-boarding and Know Your Customer (KYC), transaction models and tuning, alert investigations and clearing, governance, policies, and procedures, to regulatory and board level reporting. Our services address the requirements of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), the USA PATRIOT Act (AML) and the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).   

From day one, you’ll be empowered by the greater Risk team to help clients make the moves that will help them achieve their vision and help you achieve more, confidently.  

 Your day-to-day may include: 

• Working on engagements related to BSA, AML, OFAC, Know Your Client (KYC), and all other laws, regulations, and requirements designed to establish processes to detect and prevent money laundering, fraud, and terrorism 
• Research, analyze, understand current marketplace issues and emerging regulatory requirements and guidance 
• Contribute to and support client service teams on multiple AML engagements and compliance program initiatives 
• Manage and minimize engagement risk by proactively identifying issues and recommended courses of remediation  
• Interface with clients in a professional manner, to resolve questions and issues 
• Maintain education and knowledge with regards to BSA, AML/KYC/OFAC, and other applicable regulations 
• Train and mentor associates and interns on engagements and assess performance and provide feedback 
• Assist managers developing proposals 
• Attend professional development, networking events, and training seminars  
• Other duties as assigned 

You have the following technical skills and qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Technology, MIS, or related field required, Advanced Degree is a plus 
• Minimum 2 years of related work experience with a professional services firm, or as part of an Internal Audit, Compliance Assurance, or related function 
• CAMS, or similar license/certification preferred 
• Excellent communication (verbal/written) and investigative/analytical skills 
• Prior relevant internal audit, advisory or BSA/AML and OFAC sanctions experience required 
• Examination experience or extensive knowledge with one or more of the following agencies (FRB, OCC, FDIC, FinCEN, or SEC) and/or ex-AML or Compliance Officer from a nationally recognized institution 
• Understanding of BSA/AML legal and regulatory environment; including laws, regulations, and guidance promulgated under the BSA and USA PATRIOT Act 
• Hands-on experience working in two or more of the following areas:  
  • Internal audit or independent reviews 
  • AML and OFAC compliance program policy and procedure development 
  • AML and OFAC risk assessment 
  • KYC: Customer risk rating (CRR), customer identification program (CIP), customer due diligence (CDD) or enhanced due diligence (EDD) Transaction monitoring/FIU: Alert clearing, case investigations and suspicious activity reporting (SAR) 
  • OFAC screening, reporting, system list updates 
  • Enforcement actions remediation 
  • Regulatory issue validation 
  • Transaction monitoring or OFAC sanctions system model validation 
  • Vendor solutions in KYC, Transaction Monitoring, Case Management or OFAC 
• Can travel as needed.  

At Grant Thornton, we believe in making business more personal and building trust into every result – for our clients and you. Here, we go beyond your expectations of a career in professional services by offering a career path with more: more opportunity, more flexibility, and more support. It’s what makes us different, and we think being different makes us better. 

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