Financial Crime Analyst

TEKsystems•Knoxville, TN

1d•$38 - $38•Onsite

About The Position

This role involves providing professional guidance to operational specialists, performing high-quality risk assessments, validating escalated alerts, determining SAR requirements, and acting as the primary interface with compliance stakeholders and the MLRO. The position requires detailed reporting of activities, actioning of investigative measures, and in-depth risk assessment of relevant events. Key tasks include administrative preparation of reporting documentation, drafting narratives, identifying required documents, and adhering to jurisdiction-specific requirements for SAR preparation. Additionally, the role involves implementing post-reporting actions and offboarding measures, reviewing SEPA recall requests and transfer of funds requests for risk identification, and conducting holistic reviews of complex triggers like ML tips and Authority requests. The analyst will also be responsible for creating XMLs, understanding the SAR submission process, and challenging AI-driven escalations to ensure accurate case routing.

Requirements

2-5 years AML L2 Case Investigations and SAR writing experience
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.