Senior AML/BSA & Fraud Investigations Compliance Manager Hybrid

About the Opportunity

Confidential Search Solutions (CSS) is partnering with a premier payroll, benefits, HR, and financial-technology organization to hire a Senior AML/BSA & Fraud Investigations Compliance Manager for a Temp-To-Hire opportunity. This highly visible, hybrid opportunity is ideal for an experienced compliance professional ready to strengthen a growing financial-crimes program. You will lead complex investigations, provide second-line oversight, and advise Compliance, Legal, Risk, Operations, and business leaders on high-risk matters.

What You’ll Do

• Lead BSA/AML, fraud, and financial-crimes compliance activities.
• Conduct complex investigations involving money laundering, account takeover, identity theft, payment fraud, wire fraud, and unusual transactions.
• Review cases and determine appropriate escalation, mitigation, documentation, and potential SAR filing.
• Oversee KYC, CDD, and EDD reviews for complex and high-risk customers.
• Evaluate PEP, OFAC, sanctions, adverse media, beneficial ownership, and high-risk jurisdiction concerns.
• Review transaction-monitoring alerts and analyze customer activity, transaction histories, counterparties, and behavioral patterns.
• Provide second-line-of-defense oversight and credible challenge involving high-risk customers, products, and transactions.
• Support AML risk assessments, controls testing, audits, regulatory examinations, and remediation efforts.
• Identify emerging fraud patterns and recommend improvements to policies, controls, and monitoring processes.
• Prepare clear investigative findings, risk assessments, and regulatory documentation.
• Serve as a trusted financial-crimes subject-matter expert to senior leadership.

What We’re Looking For

• 10 years of experience in BSA/AML, fraud investigations, financial-crimes compliance, regulatory compliance, or risk.
• Experience in banking, investment banking, private banking, wealth management, fintech, payments, payroll, or regulated financial services.
• Strong knowledge of BSA/AML, FinCEN, FATF, the USA PATRIOT Act, OFAC, KYC, CDD, and EDD.
• Demonstrated experience conducting or overseeing complex fraud and financial-crime investigations.
• Hands-on experience with suspicious-activity identification, transaction monitoring, and SAR escalation or reporting.
• Experience assessing PEP, sanctions, adverse media, beneficial ownership, and high-risk customer concerns.
• Second-line compliance, risk, advisory, monitoring, or oversight experience.
• Strong investigative, analytical, documentation, and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• CAMS certification or active CAMS candidacy
• Regulatory examination, audit, and remediation experience
• Global or cross-border financial-crime compliance experience
• AML program governance, risk assessment, or controls-testing experience
• Background with a large financial institution, fintech, payments company, or G-SIB

Preferred Technology Experience

Actimize • World-Check • LexisNexis • Fenergo • Ripjar • Transaction-Monitoring Platforms • Case-Management Systems • KYC and Sanctions-Screening Tools

Join a high-impact financial-crimes compliance team and help build a modern, scalable, and defensible program. Qualified Denver-area candidates are encouraged to apply.

About us: Confidential Search Solutions ("CSS") is a full-service equal opportunity employment consulting and legal staffing firm. Headquartered in San Antonio and is one of the premiere executive searches and recruiting firms nationwide. We specialize in helping high performance companies and law firms identify, recruit, and train top talent for their growing organizations. We offer direct hire, contract, and temporary staffing services. For more information about us, visit our website at www.ConfidentialSS.com