Lead Analyst, AML Compliance - US&Intl

Western Union•Denver, CO

10d•$90,000 - $115,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Lead Analyst, AML Compliance – Denver, Colorado (Hybrid) Does the prospect of working in a global organization in the fight against money laundering motivate you? Are you ready to play a vital role in helping billions of people and businesses to enjoy secure, reliable financial services? Are you interested in joining a globally diverse organization where our unique contributions are recognized and celebrated, allowing each of us to thrive? Then it’s time to join Western Union with the AML Compliance team as a Lead Analyst. Western Union powers your pursuit. In this role, you will be a critical member within the Financial Intelligence Unit of the Global Compliance organization. The FIU mitigates money laundering and terrorist financing risks to Western Union. This highly visible area is responsible for identifying, escalating, and mitigating money laundering risk related activity.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or 4 years of equivalent job experience in the financial services industry is acceptable.
Advanced Microsoft Office skills (Excel, Word, and Powerpoint) including the use of pivot tables.
Strong analytical skills required, investigative experience specifically transactional data analysis and exposure to transaction monitoring controls preferred.
Detail oriented, excellent organizational skills, ability to multi-task under tight deadlines.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Demonstrated initiative and creative problem-solving skills.
Understanding of the Global Money Remittances Industry as it relates to anti-money laundering, terrorist financing and fraud typologies.
Knowledge of the global laws and regulations applicable to money laundering, including the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), The USA PATRIOT Act.
Understanding of international regulatory bodies and organizations.
Team player with strong collaborative qualities and a positive demeanor.
Ability to work on confidential and sensitive matters with a high degree of professionalism and discretion.
Proven track-record of successfully evaluating and providing analysis on transaction monitoring rule suites sufficient to support a conclusion that the candidate can work more complex assignments including but not limited to jurisdictions under novel monitoring, the introduction of new products, or rule suites that demonstrate substantial integration of regulatory / stakeholder feedback.
Ability to successfully manage multiple projects / workstreams simultaneously and operate with minimal management oversight.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Snowflake / SQL or Python preferred.

Responsibilities

Responsible for the design of targeted, risk-based transaction monitoring rules and control programs, particularly for rules associated with complex, impactful, or novel jurisdictions and products.
Serve as a primary resource for Senior Analysts on methodology, rule logic, and review handling and translates management priorities into actionable tasks and ensures consistent application of standards.
Identify conceptual risks and translating them into systematic controls.
Support the ongoing enhancement of our risk-based program design as part of the Compliance Analytics and Design Team (FIU-CA&D) team including assessments associated with WU's organization, consumers, corridors/geographies, and products.
Analyze and evolve the control and monitoring programs to be more dynamic as system capabilities are enhanced by working with live data.
Support a strong Culture of Compliance where in-depth data analysis, open-source research and intelligence gathering from existing Compliance departments is required to identify if Western Union’s products are being abused by individuals or organizations across 120+ jurisdictions while ensuring that Western Union designs and maintains industry leading risk mitigation programs & systems.
Possess a high degree of integrity, confidentiality, independent and sound judgment, and professionalism, as well as excellent oral and written communication skills.
Ability to successfully conduct quality control reviews on tasks performed by others.
Ability to successfully manage multiple projects / workstreams simultaneously and operate with minimal management oversight.