Huron is a global consultancy that collaborates with clients to drive strategic growth and navigate constant change. You'll help banks and insurance organizations by supporting client projects focused on Level 2 Transaction Monitoring investigations.
Manage investigation/case workbench and productivity to ensure adherence to SLAs and suspicious activity reporting requirements
Conducting thorough reviews of transactional histories for flagged accounts, taking appropriate actions
Notify supervisor and/or project leadership of significant or complex cases or escalations
Raise notable or thematic patterns, typologies, and risks to project leadership to better inform and potentially enhance monitoring coverage and/or rules
As required, perform deeper analysis into transactions, customers, related account owners and/or businesses, ownership structure, and ultimate beneficial owners, to determine the legitimacy of reviewed activity
Prepare investigation results, document evidence, capture appropriate documentation, and draft clear narratives to support rationale for case closure or suspicious activity/transaction reporting (SAR/STR). Prepare SAR/STR recommendation narratives, as appropriate
Actively participate in team meetings to surface and share thematic red flags, emerging typologies and risks, potential process improvements/streamlining to enhance operations and outcomes
Collaborate with, share knowledge and expertise, and assist peers and managers with ensuring production expectations at the individual, team, and project level are met and maintained
Be receptive to manager/project oversight/client feedback, take accountability and implement corrective actions to ensure quality expectations are met
Provide subject matter expertise on correspondent banking typologies
Qualification
Required
Strong educational background – Degree in Finance, Business, Economics, Forensic Accounting, Criminal Justice, Legal or STEM subject a plus
Strong investigative skills and track record of conducting anti-money laundering and financial crimes investigations involving potentially high-risk customers and activity, cross-border typologies, out-of-profile patterns, fraud, and other suspicious behaviours
Experience in Private Banking and/or Corporate Banking would be desirable
Experience reviewing AML system-generated alerts and scenarios and conducting holistic account/transaction analysis using internal systems and external commercial and open-source tools, spreadsheets, and charts/graphs. Experience with using data visualisation tools a plus
Strong written and verbal communications skills and the ability to write comprehensive narratives evidencing investigations results, outcomes, and recommendations
Experience working with banks, payment processors, and/or FinTechs either directly or working for a 3rd party providing consulting/outsourced services to these institutions
Experience drafting clear and concise summaries of alert review findings
Familiarity with transaction monitoring and case management systems (e.g., Oracle, Actimize, Verafin, etc.)
Understanding of suspicious activity identification and reporting regulatory requirements in the U.S., UK, and EU (e.g., Bank Secrecy Act, MLR 2017, Proceeds of Crime Act, Anti-Money Laundering Directives, EU country level requirements, etc.)
An ability to apply complex concepts across a variety of scenarios
Comfortable in a dynamic work environment with evolving priorities
Very strong attention to detail and capable of analytical thinking
Experienced initiating escalations, comfortable discussing with high-level stakeholders
Excellent communication skills across all levels of seniority
Strong interpersonal skills, with good relationship building and engagement skills
Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, particularly Excel, Word and PowerPoint
Preferred
Benefit
Huron is a global professional services firm that collaborates with organizations to solve complex challenges and achieve ambitious goals.
