Business Accountability Specialist

at  Wells Fargo

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WELLS FARGO RECRUITMENT AND HIRING REQUIREMENTS:

a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.
b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process

Required Qualifications:

• 2+ years of risk management, business controls, quality assurance, business operations, compliance, or process experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, educatio

Desired Qualifications:

• Solid understanding of financial crimes risks
• Knowledge of BSA/AML programs including KYC, CDD, EDD, CIP and / or other related risk and regulatory disciplines
• Knowledge of transactional products (wires, ACH, check, cash vault, etc.).
• Knowledge of Wells Fargo AML policy/procedures, higher risk customers, and complex business models.
• Experience with customer types such as financial institutions, funds, professional service providers, and/or trust services.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate financial crimes risks and to communicate relevant risk in a simple, decisive, timely and market-appropriate manner.
• Ability to identify financial crimes and formulate actionable conclusions/recommendations.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, Finance, Accounting, Economics, National Security & Intelligence Studies or other relevant fields
• Proficient verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Intermediate MS Excel including the ability to manage extremely large and complex sets of transactional data.
• Foundational ability to build strong partnerships across business units
• Attention to detail.
• Proactive approach to solving problems.
• Solid decision-making, organizational and planning skills.
• Knowledge of Wells Fargo systems (WCIS, Cornerstone, Hogan, OIB, IIS, UAR Portal, etc.).
• Industry certifications (e.g. CAMS certified and/or Wells Fargo AML/Sanctions Credential Program, etc.)

Wells Fargo is seeking a Business Accountability Specialist (BAS) in Financial Crimes Operations as part of Enterprise Functions. Learn more about the career areas and lines of business at wellsfargojobs.com.
The Transactional Risk & Intelligence Group (TRIG) is a centralized function within Financial Crimes Operations that delivers actionable transactional analysis and intelligence reporting. TRIG is seeking a BAS to perform transaction-based portfolio reviews on higher risk customers and account types with elevated and complex risk profiles. In this role, the BAS will conduct deep analysis and publish actionable reports and recommendations.

In this role, you will:

• Conduct deep due diligence research on high-risk customers and analyze customer transactions and demographic data points to identify new or emerging customer financial crimes risks, and/or customers presenting a heightened risk within a portfolio.
• Evaluate moderate complexity portfolio reviews to determine appropriate level of escalation and ultimate recommendation, in consultation with manager/team lead/reviewer.
• Work with 1,000s of rows and cells of data in Microsoft Excel to perform the analysis on datapoints ranging from geography to transactional values and volumes to relational data.
• Work with the group’s data partners, mid-level managers, and cross-functional business partners to develop strategies, techniques, and tools to facilitate the advancement of reviews.
• Write and publish portfolio review reports with bolstered observations and risk dispositions that help business partners better understand customer’s behavior and manage the risk. Communicate findings and provide appropriate direction to manager/team lead/reviewer and business partners.
• Participate in moderate complexity project initiatives.
• File unusual activity reports in a timely manner.
• Maintain organized and detailed documentation of review results or recommendations by following all established procedures/processes.
• Provide incremental enhancements to existing ML/TF typologies based upon observations from daily work.

Required Qualifications:

• 2+ years of risk management, business controls, quality assurance, business operations, compliance, or process experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• Solid understanding of financial crimes risks
• Knowledge of BSA/AML programs including KYC, CDD, EDD, CIP and / or other related risk and regulatory disciplines
• Knowledge of transactional products (wires, ACH, check, cash vault, etc.).
• Knowledge of Wells Fargo AML policy/procedures, higher risk customers, and complex business models.
• Experience with customer types such as financial institutions, funds, professional service providers, and/or trust services.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate financial crimes risks and to communicate relevant risk in a simple, decisive, timely and market-appropriate manner.
• Ability to identify financial crimes and formulate actionable conclusions/recommendations.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, Finance, Accounting, Economics, National Security & Intelligence Studies or other relevant fields
• Proficient verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Intermediate MS Excel including the ability to manage extremely large and complex sets of transactional data.
• Foundational ability to build strong partnerships across business units
• Attention to detail.
• Proactive approach to solving problems.
• Solid decision-making, organizational and planning skills.
• Knowledge of Wells Fargo systems (WCIS, Cornerstone, Hogan, OIB, IIS, UAR Portal, etc.).
• Industry certifications (e.g. CAMS certified and/or Wells Fargo AML/Sanctions Credential Program, etc.).

Job Expectations:

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule.
• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship

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