Financial Crime Review Team Lead

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Job Description:

This role is responsible for conducting oversight of multiple teams of reviewers, ensuring quality at the source of our reviews, and delivering client delight. This will include coaching individuals, ensuring that team members are mastering the appropriate skillsets, and ensuring that client engagements are aligned to our agreements. This role will oversee resources on projects and be responsible for continuous communication with team members, along with executing project lifecycle tasks for transaction monitoring engagements.

This role is also responsible for performing quality assessments on transaction activity reviews, investigations and customer due diligence reviews on customers that have been alerted for potentially suspicious activity, as well as other financial crime events.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Fostering a collaborative environment: Developing and maintaining a strong team to ensure customer delight. Staying informed on all aspects of the engagements to ensure on budget, on time delivery of work product.

• Risk Management: Identifying project risks and taking appropriate action with key stakeholders to minimize the impact of risks.

• Project Lifecycle Management: Support the management of projects, including engagement planning, execution, evaluation, and maintenance. Ensure production consistency across team members completing alerts, performing investigations, enhanced due diligence reviews for potentially suspicious activity, making risk-based SAR recommendations, and preparing SARs.

• Reporting & Analysis: Create, maintain, and provide regular reporting to both internal and external business parties regarding engagement status.

• Professional Development: Maintain a solid working knowledge (functional and operational) of the rules and regulations, including but not limited to, BSA, USA PATRIOT Act, OFAC and Sanctions Screening.

• Career Coaching: Responsible for managing the career development of team members, assisting with performance evaluations, facilitating year-end discussions, and providing ongoing guidance to support the professional growth and advancement of the team.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of a College Bachelor’s degree

• 3 - 5 years minimum experience in financial crime compliance management, retail banking, commercial banking, and/or global diversified financial services organizations.

• 1–3 years working in a Project Management role

• Knowledge of the laws applicable to money laundering, to include the BSA, USA PATRIOT Act, OFAC requirements and suspicious activity reporting requirements.

• Strong writing, analytical, and communication skills and the ability to multi-task and complete projects on time.

• Strong research skills and sound knowledge in the use of the Microsoft Office Suite and experience with on-line research systems including the Internet.

• Knowledge of client and transactional monitoring processes.

• Detail oriented with the ability to multitask and quickly adapt to changing assignments.

• Ability to work autonomously and with teams in different locations.

• Highly effective communication with all levels of the organization.

• Ability to anticipate, draw conclusions, and adapt to changing needs and demands.

• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of staff and management.

• Strong analytical skills, problem solving, strategic thinking and reasoning abilities.

• A high degree of integrity, professionalism, and capacity to excel in a cohesive team environment.

• Proficient in English.

• Should be comfortable with 5 days work from office.

Preferred:

• Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (CAMS), or other relevant professional certification.

• Experience performing AML and financial crime investigations, customer due diligence reviews and/or sanctions screening reviews.

• Experience working in AML software solutions including transaction monitoring systems, customer risk rating systems, and/or case management tools like Actimize, Verafin, Fiserv, FCRM, Jack Henry Yellow Hammer, Patriot Officer.

• General banking compliance knowledge.

• Experience working in a professional services or project-based environment.

• Expertise in common financial crime technology platforms like CLEAR, LexisNexis, World Check etc.

• Prior financial crime consulting experience.

• Bilingual Spanish.

We expect the candidate to uphold Crowe’s values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship. These values define who we are. We expect all of our people to act ethically and with integrity at all times.

Our Benefits:
At Crowe, we know that great people are what makes a great firm. We value our people and offer employees a comprehensive benefits package. Learn more about what working at Crowe can mean for you!

How You Can Grow:
We will nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity. You will have the chance to meet on a consistent basis with your Career Coach that will guide you in your career goals and aspirations. Learn more about where talent can prosper!

More about Crowe:

Crowe Capability Center – India, operating under the legal entity C3 India Delivery Centre LLP (formerly known as Crowe Horwath IT Services LLP) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Crowe LLP (U.S.A.), a public accounting, consulting and technology firm with offices around the world. Crowe LLP is an independent member firm of Crowe Global, one of the largest global accounting networks in the world. The network consists of more than 200 independent accounting and advisory firms in more than 130 countries around the world.

Crowe does not accept unsolicited candidates, referrals or resumes from any staffing agency, recruiting service, sourcing entity or any other third-party paid service at any time. Any referrals, resumes or candidates submitted to Crowe, or any employee or owner of Crowe without a pre-existing agreement signed by both parties covering the submission will be considered the property of Crowe, and free of charge.

We are committed to a merit-based hiring process, evaluating all candidates consistently using objective, job-related criteria such as relevant experience, demonstrated skills, measurable impact, and alignment with the role’s responsibilities, and making employment decisions in a fair and inclusive manner free from discrimination.