Anti-Money Laundering Officer

A financial institution is seeking a BSA/AML Operations Manager to lead key financial crime operations, including transaction monitoring, investigations, and regulatory reporting. This role is responsible for ensuring the effectiveness of the organization’s AML and sanctions detection framework while maintaining compliance with applicable regulatory requirements.

The position plays a critical role in strengthening financial crime controls, improving investigative workflows, and supporting timely regulatory reporting across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day BSA/AML operations, including transaction monitoring, alert investigations, suspicious activity reviews, and regulatory reporting processes.
• Oversee financial crime investigations involving potential money laundering, sanctions exposure, fraud, or other suspicious activity, ensuring cases are thoroughly reviewed, documented, and resolved in accordance with internal standards and regulatory expectations.
• Manage regulatory reporting obligations, including Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs), Currency Transaction Reports (CTRs), enhanced due diligence reviews, and sanctions-related reporting.
• Oversee OFAC and sanctions compliance processes, including alert reviews, escalations, and adherence to regulatory screening requirements.
• Monitor the effectiveness of AML detection systems and investigative processes, identifying opportunities to improve controls, efficiency, and overall risk coverage.
• Ensure compliance with applicable AML, BSA, and FinCEN requirements, including information-sharing obligations and regulatory documentation standards.
• Partner with Compliance, Risk, Operations, Technology, and business teams to strengthen financial crime detection capabilities and improve end-to-end case management processes.
• Support regulatory examinations, internal audits, and remediation initiatives by ensuring documentation is complete, controls are effective, and reporting processes remain audit-ready.
• Lead, mentor, and develop AML operations staff, ensuring strong performance, consistent execution, and continued professional growth across the team.