Global Financial Crimes Specialist - Quality Control

Corporate Title: Assistant Vice President

Location: Frankfurt

Company Overview:

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Role Description:

This job is responsible for supporting the execution of substantive money laundering, economic sanctions and fraud compliance and operational risk practices. Key responsibilities include assisting Global Financial Crimes executives and managers with activities that support the identification, escalation and timely mitigation of compliance and operational risks in alignment with the Compliance and Operational Risk Management (CORM) Program, the Financial Crimes and Global Compliance - Enterprise Policies and the Enterprise Fraud Risk Management Standards.

Responsibilities:

Activities this role performs include, but are not limited to:

• Perform quality control (QC) tests to ensure AML and Fraud investigations are completed in accordance with regulatory requirements and internal procedures.

• Review and scoring of simple to complex AML and fraud cases for GFC Non-US Investigations; evaluation of any errors/discrepancies and document findings in a timely matter.

• Supports the development and maintenance of financial crimes owned policies and standards, and reviews relevant Front Line Units/Control Functions-owned policies and standards to ensure that regulatory requirements and operational risks are appropriately addressed

• Assists in the production of independent financial crimes risk management reporting to Global Compliance & Operational Risk (GC&OR) Senior Leaders and FLU/CF Senior Leaders

• Assists in the monitoring of changes in regulations applicable to Global Financial Crimes, including advising business leaders, directing the appropriate areas to implement or amend policies, standards, procedures and/or processes to address regulatory requirements, and challenging the implementation plan as needed

• Contributes to risk coverage plans, executes independent risk monitoring, testing, and risk assessments

• Supports with escalating financial crimes-related compliance and operational risks and issues to appropriate governance routines, management/board level committees

• Identifying and tracking any required remediation actions and ensuring timely documentation.

• Maintain and update QC procedures to align with regulatory and internal standards.

• Respond to audit-related queries and provide necessary documentation.

• Prepare and deliver monthly QC reports in a timely manner with accurate findings and recommendations.

• Provide training and guidance to relevant stakeholders, including QC Associates, Investigators, QA teams, and MLROs, as needed.

Required Qualifications:

• Demonstrated business and functional experience in AML or fraud

• Degree required: Bachelor’s or equivalent experience

• Confident working within global policies, procedures and risk management guidelines

• Strong organisational skills, time management, and attention to detail

Desired Qualifications:

• AML experience reviewing cases in broker dealer, global financial crimes and/or terrorist financing

• Excellent Microsoft Office skills including Excel, Powerpoint, Word and Access

Bank of America:

Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success. It’s important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.

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