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ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT – AML INVESTIGATOR (JOB NUMBER: COR002423)

Business Overview:

The U.S. Financial Security Transaction Monitoring and Investigation (“TMI”) case investigator is responsible for reviewing alerts escalations, reporting on potential suspicious activities identified via internal and external triggers, manual and automated triggers, including but not limited to AML/CFT negative news, fraud, sanctions, KYC, and terrorist financing/human trafficking matters. He/she is in charge of investigating transactions stemming from such referrals, as well as interacting with multiple levels of the bank to mitigate risk and supporting the oversight of the BNP Paribas 1st Line of Defense (“1LOD”). The case investigator will also handle a variety of processes, including legal requests (subpoenas), FINCEN regulatory processes, and law enforcement communications.

• Physical presence in BNPP’s office(s) is an essential function of this position. BNPP requires all of our employees to be vaccinated in order to access its offices, subject to reasonable accommodations for reasons related to disability or religion.

Candidate Success Factors:

Candidates to be measured on the following four performance drivers, which will dictate how individual impact is considered on the Americas platform:

• Results and Impact
  
  • Impacts division and influences peers and team
  
  
  • Demonstrates good judgement when making decisions of high complexity and impact
  
  
  • Relies on limited guidance for most complex decision making
  
  
  • Is responsible for driving outcomes which have meaningful effect on team or department
  
  
• Leadership and Collaboration
  
  • Creates trust with department leaders
  
  
  • Acts in leadership capacity for large projects, processes, or programs for a team
  
  
• Client, Customer and Stakeholder Focus
  
  • Able to build relationships with a mix of intermediate and senior colleagues or clients
  
  
  • Interacts regularly with management and department leaders
  
  
  • Demonstrates the ability to persuade and influence stakeholders at the team level
  
  
• Compliance Culture and Conduct
  
  • Takes full responsibility for personal actions and demonstrates courage in facing problems and conflicts
  
  
  • Perceived as a person of high moral character; upholds corporate values and displays high ethical standards”
  
  

Responsibilities:

• Conduct in depth case investigations pertaining to potential financial crime concerns such as AML, bribery, corruption, terrorist financing/human trafficking, etc, to mitigate regulatory, reputational, and compliance risk for the bank.
• Conduct investigations stemming from a variety of internal and external referrals, including clients and affiliate fraud, internal employee misconduct, sanctions related matters and circumvention attempts, and AML/CFT red flags.
• Interact with all lines of business and affiliates to resolve issues as appropriate and determine whether the activity is deemed suspicious.
• Prepare investigative reports with findings after a review of relevant documentation, including drafting Suspicious Activity Reports (“SARs”).

Responsibilities Cont’d:

• Review monthly AML/CFT/Red flags reports to identify potentially suspicious activity.


• Participate in monthly calls with branch affiliates and key stakeholders as needed.


• Participate in a variety of regulatory and legal processes, including FinCEN 314(a), 314(b), 311 special measures, civil and grand jury subpoenas, and law enforcement information sharing and backup documentation requests.


• Assist colleagues and TMI Management in other special projects involving transactions relating to, for example; cryptocurrency, Money Service Businesses (“MSB”), Payment Service Providers (“PSP”) and entities operating in the cannabis industry.


• Keep informed on laws, regulations, and current practices pertaining to the Bank Secrecy Act and Anti-Money Laundering regulations.


• Support senior management with development and rollout of other TMI initiatives and projects.

• Undergraduate Degree in Criminal Justice, Business, or related field.


• 3 – 5 years’ experience in transaction surveillance including model validation.


• Advanced MS Excel, MS PowerPoint skills required.


• Strong capability with data analytics/manipulation programs and concepts.


• Strong technical and analytical skills required.


• Good interpersonal and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• ACAMS, ACFE, ACFCS, ACFS certifications preferred.


• Experience and knowledge of BSA/AML and Sanctions issues is preferred.
• Experience with Correspondent Banking and Capital Markets is preferred.
• Experience with Actimize strongly preferred.

FINRA Registrations Required:

• Not Applicable

CFTC Swap Dealer Associated Person (if yes, NFA Swaps Proficiency Program is required):

• Not Applicable

SEC Security-Based Swap Dealer Associated Person:

• Not Applicable

About BNP Paribas:

In the United States, BNP Paribas has built a strong and diversified presence to support its client base. We continue to grow and strengthen our commitment to the US market through our Corporate & Institutional Banking activities. We are one of a few non-US banks to offer a full value chain for our clients, from trading to financing, and clearing and custody in the US with the international footprint and capacity to deliver both globally and locally. Leveraging the strength of our European roots, our network can support clients in virtually every region of the world, enabling more connectivity and efficiency wherever our clients conduct business.

BNP Paribas’ Corporate & Institutional Banking services corporate clients and institutional investors offering tailored solutions in financing, cash management, and advisory services to companies via Corporate Banking, in capital markets via Global Markets, and in securities custody and administration via Securities Services. As the asset management arm of BNP Paribas, BNP Paribas Asset Management offers high value-added solutions to individual savers, companies, and institutional investors.

The bank employs nearly 14,000 people and has a presence in the country since the late 1800s in major cities including New York, Jersey City, Chesterbrook, PA, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Denver and Washington, DC.

BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach across the US, EMEA and APAC. It has a presence in 65 countries, with nearly 190,000 employees. The Bank offers a comprehensive range of banking, investment and financial services solutions through three main fields of activity: Retail Banking for the Bank’s retail-banking networks and several specialized businesses including BNP Paribas Personal Finance and Arval; Investment & Protection Services for savings, investment and protection solutions; and Corporate & Institutional Banking, focused on corporate and institutional clients. Based on its strong diversified and integrated model, BNP Paribas helps all its clients (individuals, community associations, entrepreneurs, SMEs, corporates and institutional clients) to realize their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and protection insurance.

We take pride in our expertise and our ability to adapt while constantly looking ahead to create a more sustainable world.

BNP Paribas. The Bank for a Changing World - https://usa.bnpparibas/en/homepage/join-us/our-opportunities/

Primary Location
: US-NJ-Jersey City
Job Type
: Standard / Permanent
Job
: MISCELLANEOUS
Education Level
: Bachelor Degree or equivalent (>= 3 years)
Experience Level
: At least 3 years
Schedule
: Full-time
Entity
: BNP Paribas CIB

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