Financial Crime

• UAT planning & test design
• Analyze business requirements and functional documentation to develop comprehensive UAT test plans, scenarios, and scripts aligned to business outcomes.
• Translate requirements into clear, executable test cases with defined acceptance criteria, expected results, and traceability to scope.
• Participate in requirement walkthroughs to document scenarios, identify gaps, ambiguities, and dependencies early.
• Serve as the day-to-day UAT point of contact for assigned initiatives.
• Develop UAT plans, test scenarios, and scripts; execute testing and log defects in Jira (including severity, steps to reproduce, evidence, and impacted functionality).
• Coordinate test environments, test data, and user access, partnering with Technology and platform teams to ensure readiness prior to execution.
• Organize and facilitate UAT kickoffs, daily checkpoints, defect triage sessions, and retest cycles.
• Track, triage, and manage defects through resolution and retesting, ensuring appropriate prioritization and clear ownership.
• Support root-cause discussions by comparing observed behavior to requirements, designs, and upstream test results; ensure defects vs. change requests are correctly categorized.
• Validate fixes through retesting and regression testing as required, confirming issues are resolved without introducing new defects.
• Provide clear status updates to project teams and stakeholders, including progress against plan, defect trends, risks, and mitigation actions.
• Escalate critical risks (environment instability, data issues, high-severity defects) in a timely manner with recommended next steps.
• Prepare test summary reports including executed test cases, pass/fail rates, defect metrics, outstanding risks, and go/no-go recommendations.
• Monitor testing activity against project timelines, highlighting schedule impacts and driving actions to maintain delivery commitments.
• Support UAT sign-off, ensuring evidence is recorded, key decisions are documented, and audit-ready artifacts are stored per process.
• Maintain and continuously improve UAT templates, checklists, and playbooks to increase consistency and quality.
• Identify recurring defect patterns and recommend changes to requirements clarity, test coverage, data setup, training, or upstream QA processes.
• Maintain strong documentation and follow established processes to ensure consistency, accuracy, and control adherence
• Assist with post-deployment validation and confirm that changes and fixes performed by Technology operate as intended.

Financial Crimes Risk – Quality Oversight UAT Coordinator

• Perform detailed analysis on electronic transactions and activities that appear to support suspicions of fraudulent activity
• Take precautionary measures on accounts and/or transactions to mitigate risk
• Communicate information on deposit fraud suspects to account relationship officers
• Document daily review and analysis of suspect transactions

Digital Fraud Detection Specialist

• Responsible for supporting the day-to-day operation of the AML Governance function through governance coordination, executive reporting, issue management, change management, and governance operations
• Coordinate governance routines, operating rhythms, committee activities, and management forums
• Produce and maintain AML program reporting, dashboards, and governance metrics
• Facilitate governance-related communications and stakeholder engagement
• Support intake, tracking, and governance of AML escalations
• Provide day-to-day operational support for AML issue management

AVP, AML Governance Manager

• Reviewing alerts generated from the sanctions screening of transactions
• Conducting Level 1 (L1 - initial review) of sanctions screening for real-time and post transactional review of hits
• Conducting manual sanctions screening and providing timely response to various requests
• Performing control reconciliation functions of daily reviews to ensure all hits are addressed/escalated timely
• Staying abreast of regulatory changes and AML-related news

AML Compliance, Screening Specialist

• This position is an individual contributor role residing within the Bank’s Second Line of Defense Risk Management and Compliance organization.
• Specifically, this position supports the Model Risk Management (“MRM”) program at the Bank.
• The overall MRM program is designed to provide governance and control around impactful institutional models per the Bank’s Model Risk Management Policy and Standards, and in adherence to applicable Regulatory Guidance.
• The individual in this position works with Model Owners and Developers to validate models related to the Bank's Compliance and Financial Crimes groups, which can include Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Cybersecurity, Economic Sanctions/OFAC, and Fair Lending.
• The Analyst may also interface with key stakeholders, regulators, and internal auditors to discuss the justification and reasoning behind various validation and review outcomes.
• During validation, the Analyst will independently challenge the model’s conceptual framework and methodology, data integrity and usage, implementation framework, process/governance, ongoing performance, etc.
• The Analyst will generate reporting to document and present observations made to model owners and developers for consideration, with any material concerns or weaknesses identified.
• Any items that require corrective actions to be taken by the model risk owners with then be tracked by the Analyst to remediation.

Senior Model Validation Analyst – Compliance, Financial Crimes, AML, Sanctions, Fair Lending

• Use your financial planning expertise to shape how Monstro evaluates complex wealth guidance.
• Assess AI-generated planning frameworks, decision constructs, and guidance pathways against professional judgment standards.
• Review, refine, and approve final guidance training across wealth planning scenarios.
• Identify where structured guidance is sufficient and when to flag for expert human review.
• Act as the subject matter expert for early advice frameworks, edge cases, and high-stakes planning scenarios.

Senior Wealth Planning Specialist – Financial Intelligence

• Research and review possible suspicious activity reported by bank staff.
• Process, solve and answer some client transactions, problems, and inquiries
• Be responsible for working daily, weekly, and monthly alerts generated by Lead Banks BSA software
• Complete Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) to ensure they are properly documented with related narrative and thorough case documentation, including but not limited to, customer statements, due diligence documents, transaction images
• Assist in the filing of Currency Transaction Reports (CTRs) as needed
• Assist in training of BSA Specialist as requested
• Maintains proficient knowledge of applicable compliance statutes, regulations and interpretations, including but not limited to, the Bank Secrecy Act, USA PATRIOT Act and OFAC
• Perform other duties as assigned

Financial Crimes Analyst I

• Advise on payments products and infrastructure. You’ll support a broad portfolio of payments-related initiatives across Mercury.
• Partner across the company. This role sits at the intersection of Product, Compliance, Risk, Engineering, Operations, Partnerships, and Legal.
• Help launch new capabilities. Mercury is continuing to expand its product offerings while building a nationally chartered bank.
• Support financial crimes initiatives. You’ll work closely with Mercury’s AML Advisory, Sanctions, Compliance, and Risk teams.
• Build scalable guidance. The best legal advice solves more than the question in front of you.
• Use AI intentionally. Bring a working knowledge of AI tools in legal workflows and a genuine interest in finding new ways to drive efficiency.
• Stay curious and adaptable. The regulatory and product landscape continues to evolve quickly.

Counsel, Product & Regulatory – Payments & AML

• Manages a staff of Fraud Detection analysts responsible for reviewing suspicious activity on client accounts
• Leads the day-to-day operations of the team (up to 20 teammates), ensuring service excellence and optimizing workflow
• Develops and leads a high-performing team, including hiring, mentoring, coaching, and promoting inclusivity
• Ensures compliance with government regulations and bank policies by implementing and testing procedural controls
• Resolves complex client issues, maintaining quality and quantity of production within budget
• Organizes workflow and delegates workload to adhere to established service level agreements

Fraud Detection Operations Manager

• Review KYC documentation for new client accounts, ensuring all required data, supporting documentation, and regulatory requirements are fully satisfied
• Partner closely with Relationship Managers and internal teams to resolve questions, clarify requirements, and ensure timely account onboarding
• Identify gaps, inconsistencies, or potential risk indicators and take appropriate action, including escalation when needed
• Ensure all reviews are completed accurately and efficiently within established same-day service level expectations
• Work across multiple systems to validate information and complete reviews with a high level of precision
• Provide feedback to onboarding partners to improve quality, consistency, and adherence to KYC standards
• Recognize trends or recurring issues and contribute to process improvements and stronger controls

Senior Associate – Know Your Customer Verification, Private Banking & Institutional Services

• Own the AML/BSA program — drafting and maintaining policies that actually govern how the business operates, not just documents that live in a folder.
• Develop risk assessments for BSA/AML and OFAC/Sanctions, keep policies current as programs and regulations evolve, and make sure the right teams know when things change.
• Run the monthly compliance reporting cycle, serve as the primary compliance contact across all partners, lead partner meetings, and stay ahead of issues before they become escalations.
• Maintain a clear tracker of obligations and open items across every relationship.
• Work closely with KYC/TM Ops, Product, and Engineering — not just to support their work, but to improve the systems and processes underneath it.
• Be a core contributor to compliance buildout for Nova and other products.

Head of AML

• Managing executive and regulatory stakeholder relationships
• Designing, implementing, and sustaining data processes, controls, and remediation activities that support Financial Crimes risk management
• Supporting regulatory examinations and audit requirements
• Creating and maintaining data product and asset roadmaps
• Owning financial management and delivery of all committed features
• Leverage deep technology expertise to deliver end-to-end cost-effective solutions meeting enterprise standards
• Collaborate with partners and stakeholders to align solutions with technical direction, requirements, budget, scalability, quality and architectural goals, considering all risks and impacts
• Build, motivate, and nurture productive relationships with internal and external business partners and stakeholders

Head of Financial Crimes Data Technology

• Detects and prevents fraudulent activities by analyzing anomalous activity in near real-time environment
• Review transaction data from the real-time fraud detection system
• Place appropriate holds on accounts identified as having potentially fraudulent issues
• Contact customers by phone, mail and email to verify transactions
• Leverage fraud knowledge to communicate with customers, merchants, financial institutions, law enforcement and Bank personnel
• Ensure activities comply with applicable laws and regulations affecting fraud detection activities
• Communicate with customers, merchants and Visa personnel to authenticate customers
• Remain current on multiple fraud trends, threats, and imminent scams impacting the Bank’s portfolios
• Recommend changes to fraud detection system parameters to higher management
• Serve as primary fraud contact on all assigned cases
• Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management

Fraud Detection Analyst

• Own and help evolve the organisation's identity verification and fraud prevention capabilities
• Support the continued development of secure, scalable and reliable authentication systems
• Contribute to improvements across onboarding, identity verification and customer approval journeys
• Help identify opportunities to reduce fraud, improve customer experience and increase operational efficiency
• Support the evaluation, implementation and optimisation of identity-related technologies and processes
• Work closely with engineering, product and leadership teams to deliver strategic objectives
• Contribute to the development of authentication, verification and fraud prevention solutions
• Help improve the accuracy, efficiency and effectiveness of customer verification processes
• Support the ongoing development of secure customer identity and authentication frameworks
• Analyse risks, trends and opportunities relating to fraud, identity and verification systems
• Partner with internal stakeholders to improve customer onboarding and verification outcomes
• Promote a culture of accountability, ownership and continuous improvement

Senior/Principal Software Engineer – Identity, Financial Crime

• Develop, audit, and monitor compliance of BSA/ AML requirements for financial institutions of all sizes
• Execute across all phases of an audit, including planning, conducting process walkthroughs, developing/executing test procedures, tracking artifacts and reporting on deliverables
• Submit written or oral reports of audit results to senior management and audit committees including findings, analysis, conclusions and recommended actions
• Build and manage relationships with Business Lines across all three lines of defense

Senior Consultant – AML Financial Crime Audit & Testing

• 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

Financial Crime Audit & Testing Manager

• Oversee the Second Line of Defense for sanctions risk in the US
• Serve as a subject matter expert on OFAC regulations and US sanctions frameworks
• Lead sanctions screening operations and ensure regulatory compliance
• Promote a strong risk culture throughout the organization
• Collaborate closely with global sanctions partners and engage stakeholders
• Develop and deliver targeted training sessions to enhance sanctions risk expertise

Director – Sanctions Compliance

• Responsible for the design, implementation, and integration of tools and technologies used across the Compliance, Surveillance, and Supervision domain
• Help integrate upstream bank systems with core surveillance platforms
• Build robust, scalable, and maintainable data pipelines and analytics engines

AML Surveillance Tools Engineer/Developer

• Designing, maintaining, and advancing the bank’s KYC policy and standards framework
• Ensuring effective customer identification, risk assessment, and regulatory compliance
• Establishing clear, consistent requirements aligned to U.S. and enterprise AML expectations
• Proactively monitoring the regulatory landscape and emerging financial crime risks
• Providing expert interpretation of KYC requirements
• Managing complex policy escalations and exceptions
• Leading and developing a high-performing team
• Delivering training and guidance that enhances enterprise understanding of KYC obligations

Senior Manager, Know Your Customer – KYC Policy

• Own BSA/AML data quality remediation: identifying, documenting, and resolving upstream data issues across transaction monitoring, EDD, CRR, and sanctions data feeds.
• Build and maintain Python and SQL based ETL pipelines that transform raw data into model-ready datasets.
• Execute scheduled model monitoring runs for CRR, TM, EDD, and Sanctions models.
• Lead UAT execution for Actimize FCRM go-live and post-production releases.
• Serve as the day-to-day task lead for 2–4 offshore data and model resources.
• Escalate blockers, data access issues, and quality concerns to the Manager of Data & Modeling with recommended resolution paths.
• Perform special projects and additional duties as required.

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