Aml Analyst

TEKsystems•San Antonio, TX

1d•$38 - $38•Onsite

About The Position

This role involves providing professional guidance to operational specialists, performing high-quality risk assessments, validating escalated alerts, and determining SAR requirements. The analyst will own final risk assessment and escalation decision-making and serve as the primary interface with compliance stakeholders and the MLRO. Key tasks include detailed reporting of activity, implementing additional investigative measures, preparing all reporting documentation, and managing post-reporting actions and offboarding measures. The role also requires reviewing SEAR recall requests, transfer of funds requests, and complex review triggers like ML tips and authority requests. Additionally, the analyst will be responsible for creating XMLs, understanding SAR submission processes, and challenging AI-driven escalations to ensure accurate case routing.

Requirements

End to end process knowledge of alert handling from alert generation to consumer offboarding constitutes the minimum task qualification.

Responsibilities

Provide professional guidance to other operational specialists both on a case-specific level and holistically.
Perform high quality risk assessments with adherence to the following elements: Validate escalated alerts and determine SAR requirement.
Own final risk assessment and escalation decision making.
Act as primary interface with compliance stakeholders and MLRO.
Detailed reporting of the elapsed activity, actioning of additional instigative measures (such as consumer outreach, external bank and tax communication and critical OSINT) along with an in-depth risk assessment of the relevant events i.e. investigation.
Administrative preparation of all reporting documentation including drafting of reporting narrative, identification of required documents and adhering to jurisdiction specific requirements, i.e. SAR preparation.
Implementation of post reporting actions and offboarding measures i.e. post-processing stage.
Detailed requirement review and possible risk identification during the handling of SEPA recall requests and handling of transfer of remaining funds requests.
Holistic level review an possible risk identification of complex review triggers ( such as ML tips and Authority requests and likely in the future also the AI recommendation of complex review required).
Creation of XMLs and requirement of SAR submission process knowledge review and challenge AI driven escalations where required, ensuring accuracy of complex case routing.