Financial Crimes & Compliance Advisor in New York, New York at Berkeley Research Group

Berkeley Research Group

Overview

BRGs Financial Crimes Compliance (FCC) practice specializes in helping financial institutions (including banks, broker dealers, virtual assets service providers, and money services businesses), governments and regulatory bodies, and fintech firms solve pressing industry and regulatory issues. The group brings a mix of functional expertsincluding former regulators, financial modelers, technologists, former bankers, and longtime consultantsto address emerging risks and drive tangible benefits.

The FCC practice is looking for energetic and passionate senior staff to join its rapidly growing consultant team. The practice includes Bank Secrecy Act / anti-money laundering (BSA/AML), sanctions compliance, fraud, anti-bribery and -corruption, and related disciplines.

This role requires a professional that can demonstrate exposure to one or more of the compliance disciplines listed above and has a passion for identifying and addressing some of the most timely and interesting challenges in the field. This role provides the opportunity to advance while enjoying a rewarding role in a dynamic team.

Responsibilities:

• Provide advice regarding applicable FCC regulations and requirements across the three lines of defense on regulatory, transactional, and documentation issues;
• Demonstrate creativity and efficient use of relevant software tools, analytical methods, and computer models to develop solutions;
• Effectively prioritize your workload, manage multiple priorities, and quickly adapt to meet deadlines and work objectives; and
• As needed, work on data intensive projects, including analytics, governance, and data manipulation, to support a variety of FCC engagements.

Qualifications:

• Demonstrated expertise working with institutions, regulatory bodies, nongovernmental organizations, and/or non-bank financial institutions (e.g., crowdfunding, digital assets) in several of the following areas:
• BSA/AML (e.g., investigations, audits, systems, technology);
• Sanctions compliance (e.g., Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), United Nations);
• Fraud detection (e.g., investigations, audits, systems, technology);
• Anti-bribery and -corruption initiatives (e.g., capacity building, analytics);
• Know your customer (KYC); and/or
• International development.
• Bachelors degree in a related field (e.g., Economics, Statistics, Finance, International Studies, Political Economy); Masters preferred;
• Minimum eight years of professional experience; consulting work preferred;
• Passion to advance to senior most leadership positions within a rapidly growing team;
• Desire and ability to manage processes;
• Commitment to producing high quality analyses and attention to details;
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including proficiency and ability to train in MS PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and other tools;
• Desire to work within a team environment;
• Contribution to thought leadership and speaking events;
• Understanding of the application of advanced analytics, data science, and/or statistics in addressing FCC related challenges; and
• Ability and desire to travel to client sites.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with a federal or state regulatory agency (including FinCEN), law enforcement, intergovernmental body (e.g., FATF, Egmont Group), or related organization;
• Prior skills or experience working in one or more of the following topical areas:
• Risk and Control Assessments;
• Process mapping/flows;
• Business process optimization;
• Quantitative analytics / machine learning / statistics;
• R, SAS, Python, and/or SQL; and
• Process automation.
• Additional language(s) beyond English.

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Salary Range: $110,000-$275,000 per year.

BRG is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

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