Compliance Professional

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group•Irving, TX

2d•$96,034 - $129,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count? Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world. With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career. Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded. The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Electronic Engineering, or a related technology field of study (or foreign equivalent degree).
3 years of experience performing global sanctions screening using tools (Lexis Nexis Bridger and CGI Hot Scan); utilizing Dow Jones, World Check and Lexis Nexis watch lists; reducing false positives, optimizing AML/sanctions processes, and ensuring regulatory compliance; using SQL or python to produce visualizations and supporting screening filter testing and documenting the qualitative and quantitative analysis; automating manual processes using Visual Studio and C# to improve efficiency; and 2 years of experience must include utilizing Global sanctions watch lists and Politically exposed Persons watch lists and adverse media watch lists

Responsibilities

Conducting effectiveness testing in HotScan and Nice Actimize to assess screening effectiveness.
Performing global sanctions screening using tools (Lexis Nexis Bridger and CGI Hot Scan).
Utilizing Dow Jones, World Check and Lexis Nexis watch lists; reducing false positives, optimizing AML/sanctions processes, and ensuring regulatory compliance.
Applying data analysis using SQL or python to produce visualizations and supporting screening filter testing and documenting the qualitative and quantitative analysis.
Automating manual processes using Visual Studio and C# to improve efficiency.
Utilizing Global sanctions watch lists and Politically exposed Persons watch lists and adverse media watch lists.
Performing focus tests to enhance name-matching algorithms and improve detection efficiency.
Managing and executing Below the Line (BTL) activities for HotScan, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
Generating statistical reports using SQL on the heavy hitters from HotScan real-time and Customer Screening on a weekly basis.
Creating several bypass rules to reduce false positive ratio on real time and customer scanning, including vessel field bypass, Acronym bypass, Common Word Bypass, Ports and Cities bypass, Reverse bypass logic based on watch list and context-based bypass.
Conducting thorough analysis to scope, document, and assess the feasibility of false-hit mitigation rules; ensuring rules are appropriately suited to various financial and regulatory contexts.
Analyzing financial transaction types such as SWIFT MT and MX, FED Wires, and CHIPS to ensure rules are suitable and effective for a wide range of transaction types.
Collaborating and working on the SWIFT mandatories’ initiative ensuring that the newly introduced MX messages are properly integrated into the existing system and also ensure that any changes made to the existing MT messages are analyzed and integrated as necessary.