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About the Team
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Job Description
As the Anti‑Money Laundering Managing Director, you’ll offer tailored services to help clients identify and mitigate potential risks, address and resolve regulatory enforcement actions and help safeguard their organizations – all with the resources, environment, and support to help you excel. You’ll collaborate with leadership and colleagues to promptly identify and resolve client problems or issues because together is how we succeed. From day one, you’ll be empowered by the tools and resources to thrive and help you achieve more, confidently.
Responsibilities
- Perform engagement management responsibilities including performance reviews, task delegation, project scheduling, project financials, quality review, and client management.
- Manage, develop, train, coach, and mentor staff on projects and assess performance for engagement and formal performance reviews.
- Maintain a good working relationship with clients and work effectively with client management and staff at all levels to gather information and perform services.
- Maintain active communication with clients to manage expectations, ensure satisfaction, and become a trusted business partner.
- Manage business development activities such as proposals, capture, account teams, whitepapers, conferences, and/or other thought leadership material.
- Demonstrate understanding of leading practices in risk and compliance for banking and/or financial products and services.
- Apply strong finance, risk assessment, and technology skills to develop solutions to regulatory challenges, including new and evolving requirements.
- Design and implement business strategies and risk or compliance transformations for financial services institutions, financial holding companies, and large complex banks.
- Manage and minimize engagement risk by proactively identifying issues and recommending courses of remediation.
- Research, analyze, and understand current marketplace issues and emerging regulatory requirements and guidance.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Technology, MIS, or related field required. Advanced degree is a plus.
- A minimum of 13 plus years of related work experience in a similar consulting practice or function servicing clients at a national level.
- Relevant certification required. Desired certifications include the Certified Anti‑Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), the ACAMS Certified Advanced Anti‑Money Laundering (AML) Audit Specialist (CAMS‑Audit), CRCM, ACFCS, PMP, and/or the CPA certification.
- Examination experience or extensive knowledge with one or more of the following agencies (FRB, OCC, FDIC, FinCEN, or SIFMA) and/or ex‑senior AML Officer from a nationally recognized institution.
- Adhere to the highest degree of professional standards and strict client confidentiality.
- Proven ability to work with and manage teams of diverse consultants on complex engagements.
- Extensive experience working with and providing advice on KYC / AML and OFAC Sanctions programs.
- Solid knowledge of 3 lines of defense.
- Have substantial hands‑on experience working in and leading three or more of the following areas: independent reviews; AML and OFAC risk assessments; customer risk rating model development; transaction model and OFAC filter model risk assessments; process improvement initiatives (KYC, FIU); policy & procedure development; alert clearing and investigations; enforcement actions remediation; vendor solutions in KYC, Transaction Monitoring, Case Management, or OFAC.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to perform quantitative analysis and develop business cases.
- Have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to travel as needed. Expect 75% travel.
The base salary range for this position in New York, NY is between $263,300 and $438,800.
Job Info
- Job Identification
- Job Category Advisory
- Degree Level Bachelor's Degree
- Job Schedule Full time
- Locations New York, NY, United States Charlotte, NC, United States