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Compliance Risk Anti-Money Laundering Sr. Manager / Director – Business Risk Services
Position Summary
Grant Thornton’s Advisory professionals are progressive thinkers who create, protect, transform value today, so our clients have the opportunity to thrive and grow. Our advisory practice creates holistic solutions delivered by innovative, curious professionals who bring technical depth and industry insight to our clients. Business Risk Services protects value. Our Business Risk Services (BRS) practice includes Risk Advisory Services, Forensic Advisory Services and Data Analytics. Oversees engagement management, providing advisory and consultative services to financial institutions in addressing Know Your Customer (KYC), Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Office of Foreign Assets and Control (OFAC) and other compliance related matters.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Perform engagement management responsibilities, including performance reviews, task delegation, project scheduling, project financials, quality review and client management
- Manage business development activities, such as proposals, capture, account teams, whitepapers, conferences, and/or other thought leadership material
- Meet or exceed sales targets for new and follow-on work
- Meet or exceed targeted billing hours (utilization)
- Maintain a good working relationship with clients and work effectively with client management and staff at all levels to gather information and perform services
- Work closely with Grant Thornton managers and partners to promptly identify and resolve client problems or issues
- Communicate (verbally and in writing) externally with clients and internally with all levels of the organization to successfully accomplish objectives portraying knowledge and confidence
- Manage, develop, train, coach and mentor staff on projects and assess performance for engagement and year-end reviews
- Motivate others to perform at maximum efficiency without sacrificing quality of the services delivered
- Interview campus and/or experienced candidates
- Lead as a subject matter expert internally and to clients in related risk management and compliance. Demonstrate understanding of leading practices in risk and compliance for banking and/or financial products and services. Capably applies strong finance, risk assessment and technology skills to develop solutions to regulatory challenges, including new and evolving requirements
- Build on client relationships through regulatory solutions offerings. Identifies and addresses client needs by building, maintaining, and utilizing networks of client relationships and industry involvement and communicating our value proposition. Maintain active communication with clients to manage expectations, ensure satisfaction, and become a trusted business partner.
- Design and implement business strategies or risk or compliance transformations for financial services institutions, financial holding companies and large complex banks. Manage and direct the execution of projects multiple projects and medium to large staff teams. Provides technical support to clients regarding fair lending, vendor risk management, and examination preparation. Develop and track engagement work plans, timelines, budgets, and resource allocations. Manage and minimize engagement risk by proactively identifying issues and recommended courses of remediation.
- Research, analyze, and understand current market place issues and emerging regulatory requirements and guidance. Participate in and speaks at industry conferences, seminars and associations. Stays abreast of currently regulations impacting clients. Develop and publish points of view on relevant hot topics. Attend training and maintains required certifications.
- Manage and minimize engagement risk by proactively identifying issues and recommended courses of remediation
- Maintain active communication with clients to manage expectations, ensure satisfaction, and become a trusted business partner
- Identify and address client needs: building, maintaining, and utilizing networks of client relationships and industry involvement and communicating the value proposition
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Required Skills and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Technology, MIS or related field. Advanced degree is a plus
- 10+ years of related work experience in a similar consulting practice or function servicing cross-industry clients at a national level.
- Examination experience or extensive knowledge with one or more of the following agencies (FRB, OCC, FDIC, FinCEN, or SIFMA) and/or ex-senior AML Officer from a nationally recognized institution
- CAMS, CAMS-Audit, CRCM or ACFCS certified
- PMP preferred
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills particularly in report and proposal writing and preparing presentations for clients
- Adhere to the highest degree of professional standards and strict client confidentiality.
- Proven ability to work with and manage teams of diverse consultants on complex engagements
- Extensive experience working with and providing advice on KYC / AML and OFAC Sanctions programs
- Solid knowledge of 3 lines of defense
- Have substantial hands on experience working in and leading three or more of the following areas:
- Independent reviews
- AML and OFAC risk assessments
- Customer risk rating model development
- Transaction model and OFAC filter model risk assessments
- Process improvement initiatives (KYC, FIU)
- Policy & procedure development
- Alert clearing and investigations
- Enforcement actions remediation
- Vendor solutions in KYC, Transaction Monitoring, Case Management or OFAC
- Ability to work additional hours and/or travel as needed.
Additional Information
- Travel requirements up to 75%
- New York, NY, Chicago, IL, Charlotte, NC, Dallas, TX, Washington, DC
Benefits:
Grant Thornton LLP promotes a nationally recognized culture of health and offers an extensive array of benefits to meet individual lifestyles. For a complete list of benefits, please visit http://www.gt.com.
Founded in Chicago in 1924, Grant Thornton LLP (Grant Thornton) is the U.S. member firm of Grant Thornton International Ltd., one of the world’s leading organizations of independent audit, tax and advisory firms. Grant Thornton has revenues in excess of $1.3 billion and operates 58 offices across the U.S., with more than 565 partners and 8,000+ employees.
Grant Thornton works with a broad range of publicly- and privately-held companies, government agencies, financial institutions, and civic and religious organizations. Core industries served include consumer and industrial products, financial services, not-for-profit, private equity, and technology. Grant Thornton focuses on serving dynamic organizations that pursue growth holistically — whether through revenue improvement, leadership, mission fulfillment or innovation.
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