Financial Crimes Compliance Analyst
Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized financial institution seeking a Financial Crimes Compliance Analyst to join their team. The role involves investigating potential financial crimes, documenting findings, and ensuring compliance with relevant regulations.
Responsibilities
- Utilizes a transaction monitoring system to complete alerts to determine if further escalation is warranted to determine if suspicious activity was identified and a possible financial crime (fraud, money laundering, or terrorist financing) has occurred that involves Northern Trust accounts and clients
- Supports each alert investigation with appropriate analysis and documents investigation activities and conclusions
- Completes alerts within prescribed timeframes according to Northern Trust’s timing standards
- Interacts with partners or external parties in the course of alert investigations, as appropriate
- Recognizes the highly sensitive nature of investigation activities and maintains confidentiality
- Consults with management when necessary, regarding more complex or sensitive investigations
- Able to conduct open-source research, including searches in external and internal databases to facilitate discussions and reach decisions
- Ensures the timely screening, review, recordkeeping, and reporting of FinCEN’s 314(a) requests as prescribed by the regulation
- Ensure that operational 314(a) processing is completed, analyze the output of the 314a screening process, and make decisions on appropriate actions to take
- Review and screen 314(a) reports generated on clients and transactions to determine if there is a match
Skills
- Strong analytical skills are required
- Excellent oral and written communication skills are required
- Knowledge of rules and regulations related to the Bank Security Act (BSA), USA Patriot Act, Anti-Money Laundering (AML), and 314(a) regulation
- Analytical and problem-solving skills are required
- Technical skills / knowledge of Northern Trust transaction processing systems is preferred
- A College or University degree and at least 1-4 years of relevant work experience is preferred
- Related Industry qualification (e.g., ACAMS, CFE) or studying towards, is preferred
Benefits
- Retirement benefits (401k and pension)
- Health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, spending accounts and disability)
- Paid time off
- Parental and caregiver leave
- Life & accident insurance
- Other voluntary and well-being benefits
- Discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component
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