FIU QA Specialist

eBay•Salt Lake City, UT

About The Position

eBay's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) performs a critical role in the execution and management of eBay’s Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance program. This includes adhering to required standards and processes regarding AML investigations, ensuring eBay’s compliance with applicable laws and regulations such as the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and the USA PATRIOT Act. The FIU also builds capacity to provide regulators and law enforcement with key lead information regarding the investigation and prosecution of money laundering, terrorist financing, and other related criminal activity. The FIU aims to build a "culture of compliance" to ensure efficient and effective risk and compliance management practices. This role is for a highly motivated and expert individual to serve as a Quality Assurance Specialist assisting the Quality Assurance (QA) Manager in the FIU. The QA Specialist assists the QA Manager in reviewing investigations related to suspected money laundering, terrorism finance, or other related financial crimes, and filing suspicious activity reports as appropriate. A secondary responsibility includes performing in-depth Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) escalation reviews to assess the risk to eBay and its brand.

Requirements

Three (3) + years of experience in the investigation and research of money laundering and/or terrorist financing in a BSA/AML compliance, federal law enforcement, or regulator environment.
One (1) + year of experience as QA review experience.
Ability to assist in the scoping and building of tools, and or case management system needs to conduct analysis, investigations, and built related analytics.
Ability to build and manage relationships with senior AML, FIU and compliance management, senior law enforcement officials, and FIU counterparts at eBay and in similar regulated entities.
Working knowledge of the risk indicator trends in money laundering, terrorist financing or other related financial crime and the ability to position our processes to ensure we are able to mitigate those risks at eBay.
Strong writing and oral communication skills.
Analytical, investigative research and documentation skills.
Capacity to operate with agility in a fast paced, and constantly evolving environment, within time-critical situations.
Advanced Microsoft Office skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint & Access) including the use of pivot tables.
Microsoft Visio or (Mac) omniGraffle Experience required.
Ability to work on confidential and sensitive matters with a high degree of integrity and discretion.

Nice To Haves

Tableau Experience preferred.
Anti-Money Laundering Specialist, Financial Crimes Specialist, Certified Fraud Examiner, or related professional certification preferred.

Responsibilities

Navigating through complex data, including internal and external research, in order to provide critical information in a well-documented research file that may lead to the filing of suspicious activity reports (SARs) as required by law.
Reviewing SAR and No SAR submissions by FIU Investigators for validity, accuracy, and adherence with FIU Procedures including filing SARs directly with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and/or additional global regulatory bodies.
Identifying, developing, and applying AML typologies, analytics, and investigative techniques in order to improve the FIU’s investigations team and processes.
Presenting results from QA and intelligence gathering reports, as appropriate, to the QA Manager and FIU senior management.
Perform and support the reviews of PEP escalations, Special Interest Persons (SIP) escalation, Registration model alerts, and Periodic EDD Reviews.
Teammate with strong collaborative qualities and a positive demeanor.