Financial Crime

• Lead and review complex, higher risk investigations involving money laundering, human trafficking, higher risk customers and industries such as cannabis/hemp‑related activity, and other emerging typologies.
• Ensure accurate, timely, and well‑supported SAR decisions and filings in compliance with FinCEN and regulatory expectations.
• Serve as an escalation point for investigators on complex or sensitive cases, including engagement with broader partners to support research.
• Manage investigative quality through case reviews, trend analysis, metrics, and targeted quality assurance reviews.
• Develop and maintain effective investigative procedures aligned with a risk‑based BSA/AML program.
• Stay current on regulatory developments, enforcement actions, and emerging financial crime risks; translate changes into actionable guidance.
• Prepare materials and support BSA/AML examinations, audits, and regulatory inquiries related to investigations and SARs.
• Partner cross‑functionally with Fraud, Sanctions, Legal, Compliance Advisory, and business units to drive effective risk mitigation.
• Lead, coach, mentor, and develop investigative staff, including providing training and feedback to enhance analytical skills and judgment.
• Translate operational insights into repeatable processes, championing continuous improvement and technology adoption to scale efficiently and nimbly.
• Provide performance metrics (KRIs, KPIs) inclusive of productivity and trending.
• Contribute to program enhancements, technology optimization, and ongoing AML/CFT transformation initiatives.
• Review partner SLAs/KPIs, alert and case handoffs, escalation protocols, and control guardrails.

Senior Manager – BSA/AML Complex Investigations

• Supervise various AML processes including suspicious activity investigations
• Manage the workflow of the AML analysis
• Coach team and provide training on AML processes
• Perform quality assurance on draft Suspicious Activity Reports, sanctions reviews, etc.
• Handle escalated issues for advanced investigation and analysis

Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Supervisor – Law Enforcement Team

• Support the design, maintenance and enhancement of AML frameworks, policies, procedures, controls, and tooling as they relate to digital assets, blockchain technology and cryptocurrency
• Provide support to design and enhance the risk framework and controls required to manage risk associated with digital assets and emerging banking solutions ensuring alignment with BSA/AML and sanctions compliance standards
• Conduct due diligence and risk assessment of digital assets prospects and clients
• Evaluate suitability and effectiveness of prospect and client AML compliance programs
• Conduct financial crimes investigations involving suspicious crypto-related activity
• Conduct small-group training sessions on crypto-related financial crime typologies and investigations tactics
• Identify suspicious transactions and coordinate with Financial Investigations Unit for potential Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) filings
• Conduct deep-dive risk assessments on new product and service offerings involving digital assets or emerging banking solutions

BSA/AML Digital Assets Compliance Consultant

• Lead or participate in highly complex initiatives and investigations.
• Investigate, research, examine, and report complex financial crimes transactions, policy violations and suspicious situations with high levels of risk.
• Develop, foster and conduct regular outreach to Law Enforcement to better understand the underlining predicate for Consortium investigations.
• Lead multiple WF and Consortium member bank members to conduct highly complex driven projects.
• Conduct internal WF Consortium and 314(a) predicated investigations.
• File complex SARs with FinCEN on behalf of WF.
• Draft and compile a robust, comprehensive investigative Consortium Report (Joint Analysis) synthesizing your investigative findings, trends discovered and risk concerns for WF.
• Present investigative findings to executive members within WF: to include the BSA Officer, AMLFI Executives, SAR Review Working Group members, Business Advisory Leaders and other internal stakeholders.
• Perform investigative research, root cause assessment and consulting regarding highly complex financial crimes transactions, policy violations and suspicious situations with moderate to high risk.
• Perform detailed examination of data to detect transactional and relationship patterns, trends, anomalies, schemes and risks across multiple businesses or products.
• Partner closely with leadership to develop strategies to minimize financial crime portfolio risk.
• Provide leadership within the team.
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and mid-level managers to resolve issues and achieve goals.
• Provide executive and business advisory leaders briefings on investigative findings and trends impacting WF.

Senior Financial Crimes Specialist

• Support various AML processes including suspicious activity investigations
• Review system generated alerts and conduct research as required
• Write suspicious activity reports and make closing recommendations
• Manage a queue of alerts, cases, and investigations
• Conduct presentations to Senior Leadership
• Help maintain operations of a SIU Specialty Desk

Senior AML Investigator – Special Investigations Unit

• Manage model development/estimation activities across the model life cycle, including planning, data acquisition, estimation, evaluation, documentation, approval, model/business process integration and implementation
• Build / lead a team of highly skilled quantitative model developers to develop risk models using advance modeling approaches and set the standard for excellent performance
• Provide leadership / mentorship to other quantitative model development managers across various products, modeling disciplines and complexities
• Establish, maintain and administer model development infrastructure, process and procedures
• Assist various parties (e.g., lines of business leads) with identifying/assessing viable model development opportunities
• Assist with model compliance activities as it relates to Model Risk Management/SR 26-2 policy/standards
• Assist client (model owner) with integrating model into the business process and model deployment activities, including production scoring support and sustainability, as appropriate
• Provide on-going model support specific to evaluation/surveillance and interpretation of model performance
• Provide consultation and represent client (model owner) during 3rd party assurance provider (e.g., Model Risk Management, Corp Audit, regulatory bodies) reviews and Q&A activities

Head of Quantitative Financial Crimes

• Design and maintain a multi-year AML Strategic Roadmap that aligns with Capital One’s innovative approach to new products and services
• Lead the delivery of the enterprise-wide money laundering and sanctions risk assessments, targeted risk assessments, and periodic control effectiveness reviews
• Develop and integrate dynamic risk assessment processes into AML reviews and decision making
• Monitor relevant financial crime regulatory requirements and typologies, and advise investigations, analytics, product, and technology teams on the deployment of controls to mitigate AML risks
• Lead second-line compliance control reviews, providing assurance that Capital One’s AML controls are designed and operating effectively to mitigate financial crime risk and are in compliance with Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) standards
• Serve as a key liaison during regulatory examinations, audits, and other programmatic reviews
• Build strong partnerships and collaborate with business, technology, and other stakeholders to reach optimal business and risk management outcomes in a dynamic and fast-moving environment
• Maintain and update AML’s guidance for first-line assessments and product, service, industry, and transaction risk ratings

Director, Anti-Money Laundering – Risk Assessments and Regulatory Strategy

• Perform AML/KYC review activities including attestation review
• Support daily team operations by monitoring team inbox, assigning alerts/cases, and assisting with workflow coordination
• Conduct research and screening activities including adverse media reviews and other preliminary due diligence tasks
• Assist with quality assurance by completing quality checks, testing, and ensuring adherence to established procedures
• Provide administrative and operational support through KPI tracking, meeting documentation, data entry, and participation in department projects and process improvement initiatives

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