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 high complexity portfolio/customer 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 data points 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/customer 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 moderately to high 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
- Help draft/author new or existing procedures or process modifications that impact the execution of the reviews
- Serve as an anti-money laundering/counter threat finance subject matter expert, and reviewer of reports for more junior members on the team
- Proactively provide enhancements to existing money laundering/terrorist financing typologies based upon observations from daily work
Required Qualifications:
- 4+ 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:
- Strong understanding of financial crimes risks
- Proficient knowledge of transactional products (wires, ACH, check, cash vault, etc.)
- Advanced knowledge of BSA/AML programs including KYC, CDD, EDD, CIP and/or other related risk and regulatory disciplines
- Strong understanding of Wells Fargo AML policy/procedures, higher risk customers, and complex business models
- Experience with customer types such as financial institutions, money service businesses, third party payment processor, fintechs, etc.
- 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
- Advanced MS Excel including the ability to manage extremely large and complex sets of transactional data
- Knowledge of Wells Fargo systems (WCIS, Cornerstone, Hogan, OIB, IIS, UAR Portal, etc.)
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics, National Security & Intelligence Studies or other relevant fields
- Ability to think with a risk control mindset
- Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to build strong partnerships across business units
- Strong attention to detail
- Proactive approach to solving problems
- Strong decision-making, organizational and planning skills
- Industry certifications (e.g. CAMS certified and/or Wells Fargo AML/Sanctions Credential Program, etc.)
Job Expectations:
- This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
1525 W W T Harris Blvd., CHARLOTTE, NC 28262
221 N KANSAS ST., EL PASO, TX 79901
17 Sep 2025
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