Director - Global Financial Crimes Compliance
Managed a team of up to 12 Case Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) Review Approval Managers across the country who were responsible for up to 40 plus Investigators. Primary focus was to ensure consistency and compliance with the bank's operational procedures including BSA regulatory reporting, risk analysis/escalation, and the identification of potential “At Risk Person”. Areas of specialty include identifying suspicious activity and reporting within consumer/business deposit, loan, and credit card accounts.• Successfully re-structured the department to address operational and compliance deficiencies. • Achieved consistent monthly quality assurance scores over 95% for operations and compliance.• Attained 100% compliance with daily requirement to ensure that all regulatory reporting and cases were completed timely.• Bank Subject Matter Expert on fraud investigations and regulatory reporting for new case management system and enhanced analytical tools used for transactional review for AML/Fraud investigations. • Developed team members to handle complex fraud/AML cases beyond their scope including a holistic investigative review of the situations while teaching them new products and fraud trends.