- Review, define, and interpret the impact of sanctions updates by OFAC and the European Council. Very experienced with Venezuelan, Cuban, and Russian sanctions. - Prepare an impact analysis of the current sanction programs and define any gaps in coverage.- Prepare summaries of newly published sanctions including Executive Orders, General Licenses and Determinations to be distributed throughout the Branch. - Download and review 314a updates by FinCen. File report based on matches. - Prepare and file the initial and the annual Blocked Property Reports to OFAC.- Review of EDD, Negative Press and/or PEP scrubs against the customer database and transactional activity. - Daily review and determination of potential OFAC and European Union sanctions matches in the Bank's transactional activity. - Prepare monthly reviews of Venezuelan government controlled entities.- Prepare and report the top 20 sanctions matches to transactional activity. The review determines if the false positive matches will require a 'rule' to be implemented into the transaction monitoring system. Testing, analysis and implementation of the new rules are performed for a more efficient monitoring program.- Prepare responses and reports for Federal and State level audits.- Retrieve and review account history to investigate, detect and monitor suspicious activity such as money laundering, structuring, and layering. Successfully identified suspicious activity relevant to current regulatory issues requiring the filing of Suspicious Activity Reports.- Generate and file SARs (Suspicious Activity Reports) for all suspicious activity identified through the investigation process.

-Retrieve and review account history to investigate, detect and monitor suspicious activity such as money laundering, structuring, and layering. Successfully identified suspicious activity relevant to current regulatory issues requiring the filing of Suspicious Activity Reports.- Generate and file SARs (Suspicious Activity Reports) for all suspicious activity identified through the investigation process.- Perform quality control audits to ensure accuracy and proper documentation of CTR’s and SAR’s on a timely basis.- System Administrator of the Compliance Department’s monitoring software, ECS. Responsibilities include acting as a liaison between Branch employees and the IT Department, head all upgrade projects and testing, respond to internal audit requests and reporting.- Project management experience evaluating and testing data for application towards the most effective Compliance monitoring program.- Download and review 314a updates by FinCen. File report based on any matches.- Review OFAC updates to the SDN list. File report based on any matches.- Review updates to the Interpol and Israeli Terror List for any potential matches to the customer database.- Perform quality control audits of new account and loan documentation to ensure compliance with Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) protocols such as KYC, OFAC including US Patriot Act and adhere to company and federal procedures for reporting suspected activities. Identified higher risk clients and provided recommendation if to open a relationship with the potential customer.- Prepare responses and reports for Federal and State level audits.