Financial Crime

• Perform end-to-end investigations or investigation support functions involving external financial crimes across one or more lines of business
• Conduct routine to complex investigations involving external-party fraud, money laundering, or terrorist financing
• Act as liaison to law enforcement as required
• Coach investigators to improve case quality and ensure investigations are sufficiently documented
• Review, analyze, and make recommendations on investigations
• Identify enhancements to meet or exceed closure and quality metrics
• Review Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) for timely and accurate submission to regulators and/or law enforcement
• Report investigation facts to senior stakeholders
• Assist in identifying operational or compliance risks
• Partner with Global Financial Crimes Management and/or Front Line Units to resolve investigations
• Perform quality control, training, communications, guidance, monitoring scenario development/enhancement input and testing, or law enforcement liaison responsibilities
• Support improvements to investigation and case assignment processes
• Participate in case assignment to distribute work across the investigative team

GFC Investigator – Commercial Banking, AML

• Investigate, monitor, analyze, and report cases involving potential threats to the Bank
• Review and analyze system activity and generated alerts in accordance with Financial Crimes Compliance expectations
• Analyze Financial Crimes and Fraud-related triggers associated with risk activity
• Escalate Financial Crimes and Fraud matters requiring supervisory engagement
• Prepare reports and recommend appropriate follow-up
• Provide Financial Crimes-related support and work with the first line of defense
• Support internal and external customers as needed
• Work with business units to understand alerted activity and ensure compliance with applicable laws
• Handle advanced-level alerts and identify and escalate alerts as necessary
• Assist supervisors with special projects, system-related work, special investigations, or due diligence
• Contribute to process improvement
• Incorporate risk management into daily practices
• Provide guidance, training, consulting, and coaching support to employees
• Adhere to Bank Secrecy Act, Anti-Money Laundering, OFAC, Customer Identification Program, and related policies and regulations
• Perform other duties as required

Financial Crimes Analyst I

• Perform end-to-end investigations or investigation support functions for external financial crimes activities across one or more lines of business
• Conduct routine to complex investigations involving external-party fraud, money laundering, or terrorist financing
• Act as liaison to law enforcement as required
• Provide coaching and input to investigators to improve case quality and documentation
• Review, analyze, and make recommendations on investigations
• Review Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) for timely and accurate submission to regulators and/or law enforcement
• Report investigation facts to senior stakeholders and help identify operational or compliance risks
• Partner with Global Financial Crimes Management and/or Front Line Units to resolve investigations
• Perform quality control, training, communications, guidance, monitoring scenario development/enhancement input and testing, or law enforcement liaison responsibilities
• Support improvements to investigation and case assignment processes
• Participate in case assignment to distribute work across the investigative team

• Maintain MUFG’s financial crimes compliance policy implementation framework
• Support execution of financial crimes compliance risk management activities across the enterprise
• Support enterprise alignment efforts to ensure MUFG entities manage financial crimes risks consistently and effectively
• Aggregate and analyze reporting from MUFG entities and recommend next steps
• Coordinate interactions between MUFG entities and Head Office
• Administer information-sharing protocols and coordination mechanisms
• Assist with preparations for the FATF 5th-round Mutual Evaluation of Japan
• Assist financial crimes compliance subject-matter experts with reviewing information and supporting alignment efforts
• Develop and maintain working relationships with vertical and horizontal partners in the US and Japan

Global Financial Crimes Compliance Program Governance & Oversight, Vice President

• Manage AML/BaaS Oversight analysts or teams responsible for partner oversight, monitoring routines, documentation review, issue tracking, and AML/BaaS control activities
• Set priorities, allocate resources, distribute workloads, and ensure timely, accurate, risk-based execution
• Establish quality expectations, review escalated matters, and ensure findings, recommendations, and follow-up actions are documented
• Lead BaaS partner oversight routines, including periodic reviews, remediation follow-up, evidence collection, issue aging, and management reporting
• Identify trends, process gaps, control concerns, and recurring issues; implement improvements
• Coach, develop, and manage performance of analysts, managers, supervisors, and senior analysts
• Coordinate with compliance, risk, operations, business, and partner-facing teams
• Support audit, examination, internal review, and regulatory readiness
• Oversee outsourced BSA/AML/OFAC activities through planning, due diligence, contracting, ongoing monitoring, and termination
• Review partner control environments, business changes, regulatory responses, risk assessments, and termination plans
• Track issues through resolution and validation
• Represent the function in governance forums, remediation discussions, audits, and examinations
• Conduct regular one-on-ones and facilitate execution through situational leadership

AML/BaaS Oversight Manager

• Execute and implement firm-wide AML risk management policy and strategic direction for the Markets Institutional line of business
• Maintain the AML compliance program, including risk assessments and development of policies, procedures, and governance for an institutional broker dealer
• Identify and assess risks, vulnerabilities, and opportunities for efficient and effective risk coverage
• Assess complex issues, structure potential solutions, and drive effective resolution within statutory and regulatory frameworks
• Analyze data and prepare and present regional/global reports related to AML risk assessments
• Monitor AML-related issues and escalations with senior management and global partners
• Evaluate and respond to escalated matters, further escalate as required, and advise senior management on next steps
• Assess risk in business decisions while ensuring compliance with applicable laws, rules, regulations, and policies; escalate, manage, and report control issues transparently

Senior Vice President, Anti Money Laundering Risk Management

• Execute portfolio and thematic financial crimes risk assessments across customer types, products and services, delivery channels, and geographies
• Prioritize findings and measurable mitigation actions through emerging-risk reviews, heightened-risk portfolio reviews, and targeted deep dives
• Assess financial crimes risks for new and existing clients and recommend, document, and communicate mitigation and escalation plans
• Use KYC/EDD, case management, adverse media, screening, transaction monitoring, customer risk rating, and dashboard outputs to identify patterns, anomalies, exposure changes, and control gaps
• Translate findings into risk decisions, client actions, control enhancements, and governance reporting
• Identify and operationalize financial crimes trends and typologies using investigative intelligence, tools, and analytics teams
• Incorporate external advisories and red flags into monitoring hypotheses, thematic reviews, training, and escalation criteria
• Analyze cross-border risks involving corruption, sanctions, ownership transparency, complex structures, and high-risk industries
• Apply U.S. AML/CFT and BSA/AML requirements to KYC, customer risk assessment, and control design
• Develop scalable first-line guidance and procedures and support compliance with applicable regulations, standards, and policies
• Develop and report portfolio risk indicators, trend and typology insights, and control performance metrics
• Use intelligence, tool outputs, portfolio analytics, process reviews, control testing, and frontline feedback to challenge assumptions and identify emerging risks
• Collaborate with senior business leaders, Second Line, Technology, Internal Audit, Compliance, Legal, Operations, and data teams
• Support decisions involving transactions and activities that may create financial crimes risk, including escalation pathways, risk acceptance rationale, and compensating controls
• Translate international risk considerations into U.S. AML/KYC requirements and design mitigants for documentation, registry, or legal gaps
• Apply beneficial ownership requirements and analyze ownership and control structures for legal entity customers
• Support responsible use of approved AI-enabled capabilities by defining use cases, requirements, controls, validation considerations, and documentation

Vice President – Financial Crimes Risk Intelligence, Assessment Office

• Own the investigation-platform roadmap end to end
• Sequence and defend roadmap priorities, re-sequencing for regulatory or P0 requirements
• Define phased deliverables and acceptance criteria before development begins
• Obtain requirements from Compliance policy, monitoring rules and case management before engineering starts
• Reconcile policies and SOPs with investigator workflows and actual system behavior
• Determine whether requests require process fixes or technical changes
• Understand alert ingestion, profile and transaction resolution, suppression and grouping logic, and vendor-output-to-case-management reconciliation
• Ensure auditability through audit trails, data lineage, evidence retention, reviewer attribution, change-management controls, and filtering/suppression validation
• Ship automation and AI into regulated workflows with human-in-the-loop controls, explainability and ongoing monitoring
• Run shared forums with engineering and adjacent product managers
• Provide regular stakeholder updates and a unified delivery status
• Start with Financial Intelligence Unit workflows and extend the platform across Compliance Operations

Product Manager II – Financial Crime Operations

• Support execution of substantive money laundering, economic sanctions, and fraud compliance and operational risk practices
• Assist Global Financial Crimes executives and managers with identifying, escalating, and mitigating compliance and operational risks
• Support Global Financial Crimes Quality Control automation initiatives
• Partner with business, technology, and operational teams to design, test, implement, and monitor automated solutions
• Identify process improvement opportunities and promote standardization across Global Financial Crimes quality review activities
• Support development and maintenance of financial crimes-owned policies and standards
• Review Front Line Units and Control Functions-owned policies and standards for regulatory and operational risk coverage
• Assist with independent financial crimes risk management reporting to senior leaders
• Monitor regulatory changes and advise business leaders on required policy, standards, procedure, and process updates
• Contribute to risk coverage plans and execute independent risk monitoring, testing, and risk assessments
• Escalate financial crimes compliance and operational risks and issues to governance routines and senior committees
• Identify, aggregate, report, and escalate remediation and thematic analysis of issues and control enhancements
• Review internal and external operational loss events and help develop remediation plans and control improvements

Global Financial Crimes Specialist – Automation

• Complete self-contained financial-crime and KYC analyst case exercises from mock files
• Produce analyst deliverables graded against a rubric
• Adjudicate transaction-monitoring alerts using alert packets, KYC/CDD profiles, and transaction histories
• Document alert dispositions and draft SAR narratives where warranted
• Review client onboarding and KYC packets for completeness and cross-document discrepancies
• Produce remediation lists
• Resolve multi-layer beneficial-ownership structures using 10%/25% UBO thresholds
• Adjudicate sanctions and adverse-media hits as true matches, false positives, or escalations, with rationales
• Triage supervisory alert queues
• Adjudicate card fraud and disputes
• Assess flagged communications against trade records
• Complete a timed assessment involving mock alerts, KYC discrepancies, remediation, and sanctions-hit adjudication
• Work on projects training and enhancing AI systems

Financial Crime jobs in United States

GFC Investigator – Commercial Banking, AML

Financial Crimes Analyst I

GFC Investigator – Commercial Banking, AML

Global Financial Crimes Compliance Program Governance & Oversight, Vice President

AML/BaaS Oversight Manager

Senior Vice President, Anti Money Laundering Risk Management

Vice President – Financial Crimes Risk Intelligence, Assessment Office

Product Manager II – Financial Crime Operations

Global Financial Crimes Specialist – Automation

Financial Crime Analyst, AML & KYC