Financial Crimes Intelligence Manager
About The Position
The Financial Crimes Intelligence Manager leads the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) investigators and analysts, managing investigative workload and quality, supporting complex investigations and Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) decisions, and developing intelligence to identify and mitigate financial-crime risk. The role reports to the Senior Financial Crimes Manager / Head of FIU and assists with operating priorities, reporting, examinations, audits, risk assessments, and remediation. The Director of Financial Crimes / BSA Officer retains overall regulatory accountability for the program. The Manager partners across Financial Crimes and the Bank to strengthen monitoring, controls, investigations, and reporting. The position also works with internal stakeholders to optimize automated transaction-monitoring systems, develop and deploy detection rules and models, analyze transactional data, and reduce false positives. The role requires sound judgment, confidentiality, documentation, regulatory knowledge, and collaboration in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
Requirements
- 5–7 years of experience in financial-crimes intelligence, AML investigations, fraud, sanctions, law enforcement, regulatory compliance, or a related financial-services field.
- 2–5 years of management experience leading, mentoring, and overseeing investigators or analysts.
- Experience with complex investigations, intelligence products, typology development, network analysis, or financial-crimes risk assessments.
- Experience managing high-volume workloads, queues, case reviews, competing priorities, and operational or investigative escalations.
- Strong analytical judgment, including the ability to evaluate incomplete information and distinguish fact, inference, and unresolved gaps.
- Clear communication, sound confidentiality judgment, collaboration, adaptability, and the ability to work independently in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with BaaS, payments, fintech, digital assets, correspondent banking, or other complex financial products.
- Experience with OSINT, adverse-media research, link analysis, blockchain analytics, investigative tools, or a relevant certification such as CAMS, CFE, CFCS, or CAFP.
Responsibilities
- Lead the FIU team by assigning work, managing queues, reviewing casework, monitoring quality, and providing training to investigators and analysts.
- Oversee complex alerts, investigations, unusual-activity referrals, and relationship decisions; escalate material issues as needed.
- Ensure the FIU team collects and analyzes information to identify meaningful investigation trends, emerging threats, and new typologies.
- Support investigative and SAR decisions using permitted sources and clearly distinguish facts, analysis, and information gaps.
- Translate intelligence findings into recommendations for monitoring, controls, procedures, training, and partner or product risk decisions.
- Maintain effective governance, confidentiality, documentation, and regulatory knowledge while supporting the Head of FIU and cross-functional partners.
- Provide day-to-day oversight of a diverse investigations team.
- Partner with internal stakeholders to optimize automated transaction-monitoring systems.
- Design, test, and deploy scenario rules and detection models to capture emerging financial-crime trends, such as crypto-mixers, trade-based money laundering, and shell-company networks.
- Use internal tools to analyze transactional data and reduce false-positive rates.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation, including opportunities for equity grants and cash bonus, based on experience, geographic location, and role.
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k) matching, and other wellness benefits, including FSA, HSA, and HRA.
- Paid parental leave.
- Flexible vacation policy, including PTO and paid holidays.
- A fun and challenging team environment in a dynamic industry with ample opportunities for career growth.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
