Financial Crimes Associate

Wells Fargo is seeking a Financial Crimes Associate

As a part of Wells Fargo's second line of defense and Independent Risk Management team, Financial Crimes Risk Management covers jobs responsible for implementing and maintaining an effective financial crimes program for the company that complies with all applicable laws, regulations, and regulatory expectations including Bank Secrecy Act, Anti-Money Laundering, Counter-Terrorist Financing, and Global Sanctions.

In this role, you will:

• Participate in and provide support for low complexity initiatives
• Investigate, negotiate and mitigate potential or known moderate dollar loss or risk claims with customer suspects
• Examine evidence and work with more difficult customers or collect losses from responsible party
• Examine fraud findings to determine extent of fraud risk
• Review issues and policies or procedures for which answers can be quickly obtained related to lower risk tasks and deliverables with narrower impact
• Research and scrutinize complex transactions and referrals to prevent and detect financial crimes activities, policy violations and suspicious situations with low to moderate risk
• Perform analysis to detect patterns, trends, anomalies and schemes in transactions and relationships across multiple businesses or products
• Receive direction from supervisor and exercise judgment within defined parameters while developing understanding of function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements
• Draft report of findings and trend evaluation and make recommendations to mitigate risk
• Provide information to managers, functional colleagues and stakeholders
• Provide litigation support, under guidance by more experienced colleagues, by providing support documentation, testimony and evaluating cases for potential risk
• Conduct education for financial crimes awareness

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ months of Financial Crimes, Operational Risk, Fraud, Sanctions, Anti-Bribery, Corruption experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• Anti -Money Laundering (AML) / Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) experience including strong knowledge and understanding of transaction monitoring.
• Good analytical skills with high attention to detail and accuracy.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Good time management skills and ability to meet deadlines.
• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and Outlook) skills