BSA QA Lead Analyst (Full Time) - Amarillo, Plano, or Sugar Land
About The Position
The BSA Quality Assurance (“QA”) Lead Analyst assists the BSA QA Manager in implementing and maintaining the Bank’s QA processes in accordance with BSA/AML Policy, Procedures, and Guidelines. In addition to conducting QA Reviews, this position is responsible for evaluating the reviews completed by the QA Team, as needed, including those conducted on BSA/AML Transaction Monitoring (“TM”) alerts, case investigations, High-Risk Customer (HRC) EDD reviews, and SARs. The QA Lead Analyst identifies, documents, and reports findings to the QA Manager ensuring consistency amongst the QA Team, and to identify performance issues within the BSA Department.
Requirements
- Knowledge of BSA, AML, and OFAC regulations and guidance, with the ability to apply and explain regulatory concepts
- Minimum of five years BSA/AML-related banking experience
- Strong interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills
- Self-starter, capable of working under minimum supervision
- Multi-tasker and able to meet deadlines in a high-pressure environment
- Results oriented team player
- Strong problem-solving ability
- Exceptional research and analytical skills
- Proficient in MS Office (Outlook/Word/Excel/PowerPoint)
- Strong documentation skills
- Ability to apply logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data establish facts and draw conclusions.
- Able to interpret a variety of technical instructions and can deal with multiple variables.
- Ability to compute simple math, including percents, averages, volume changes, and totals.
- Ability to read periodicals, journals, manuals, dictionaries, thesauruses, and encyclopedias.
- Ability to prepare business letters, proposals, summaries, and reports using prescribed format and conforming to all rules of punctuation, grammar, diction, and style.
Nice To Haves
- CAMS Preferred
Responsibilities
- Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in all areas of BSA.
- Function as a point of contact to BSA QA Analysts for questions, providing real-time training.
- Understand, and ensure compliance with, regulatory requirements and Bank specific BSA/AML/OFAC policy and procedures.
- Conduct QA reviews on alerts, cases, SARs, and HRC EDD reviews.
- Provide feedback to, and communicate effectively with, peers and management on the results of QA reviews.
- Escalate concerns and/or findings on the results of QA testing clearly and objectively to BSA Management.
- Assist in preparing QA-related reports.
- Provide policy and procedure enhancement recommendations, including those to improve efficiency, quality, and consistency, to BSA Management.
- Assist in preparing training for all BSA workflows, to address identified issues and/or gaps in procedures or processes.
- Ensure adherence to all defined SLAs, manage workflows to the specified deadlines, and complete responsibilities in a satisfactory manner, ensuring work product meets both quality and quantity expectations.
- Participate and lead team meetings as needed.
- Interact with examiners, auditors, BSA Senior Leadership, and Bank Executive Management as required.
- Complete assigned training in a timely manner.
- Stay current on regulatory expectations, guidelines, and changes.
- Perform any other assignments as directed by BSA Management.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
