Global Financial Crimes – Risk Assessment & Analysis, Assistant Vice President – Hybrid (Irving, TX)
MUFG
- Irving, TX
- $85,000-105,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Support the Head of Global Risk Assessment Execution to design, implement, and execute the Americas and U.S. AML and Sanctions risk assessments and Targeted Risk Assessments (TRAs).
- Facilitate the identification of risk coverage gaps to drive necessary process enhancements.
- Contribute to training, guidance and direction on the implementation of the methodology.
- Liaise with regional and local compliance officers on risk assessment-related projects, initiatives, and data collection.
- Collaborate with the Data Insights & Analytics (DIA) team to perform analytics and reporting for the Americas and U.S. risk assessments.
- Advise and collaborate with the First Line of Defense and the Chief of Staff Office on the identification, collection, review, and submission of data to support the RA.
- Provide subject matter expertise around the collection, organization, and evaluation of quantitative data relevant to the risk assessment process.
- Develop Risk Assessment narratives, preparing heatmaps and graphics, and tracking/escalating issues.
- Create post-assessment evaluation and remediation, including coordinating with regional and local compliance to determine mitigating action plans.
- Liaise and coordinate with Testing, Audit, Training, and Issues Management, among others.
- Respond to audit or regulatory requests/issues around risk assessment.
- Bachelor’s degree, or the equivalent. An MBA or Master’s degree in analytics, business, accounting, legal or related fields is preferred
- 4+ plus years of internal or industry experience in financial crimes, compliance, risk assessment, reporting, or data governance with a financial services company, consultancy or regulatory agency.
- Subject matter expertise of AML, Sanctions, and ABC.
- Experience in developing/enhancing risk assessment-related programs.
- Experience with data analytics and working knowledge of Excel.
- Experience interacting with the Executive Committee Leadership, control function leadership, and compliance subject matter experts.
- Collaborative with strong interpersonal communication skills.
- Systemic thinker across enterprise.
- Detail-oriented and organized execution.
- General knowledge of risk assessments, testing, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, KYC, and issues management.
- General knowledge of regulatory guidance and practices in the AML, ABC and sanctions space.
- Strong analytical skills and proficiency in MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint (Access and other database or reporting tools are a plus).
- ACAMS, ISCO or other financial crimes-related certification preferred.
- Professional level presentation skills.
- Process-oriented with a strong ability to develop appropriate program enhancing strategies.
- Experience interfacing with banking regulators and enforcement staff.
- Understanding of an effective financial crimes risk management framework.
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Ability to interact effectively at all levels of the organization, including Bank staff, management, directors and prudential regulators.
- Ability to work autonomously and initiate and prioritize own work.
- Ability to work with teams of project managers.
- Solid judgment, strong negotiating skills, and a practical approach to implementation – including knowledge of Bank systems.
- Ability to balance regulatory requirements with the best interests of the Bank and its customers.