Financial Crimes QA Analyst I

🔥 16 hours ago

🌵 Arizona, Kentucky, +4 more states – Remote

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💵 $36k - $58k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

🔧 QA Engineer (Quality Assurance)

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Pathward

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1001 - 5000 employees

🛡️ Insurance

💼 Consulting

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Insurance • Consulting • Logistics

Pathward is a federally registered financial institution that provides robust banking infrastructure, proven technology resource partners, and dynamic collaboration to assist third-party partners in delivering banking programs that meet customer demands. The company focuses on providing a variety of financial solutions including issuing, acquiring, digital payments, credit solutions, and professional tax solutions, among others. Additionally, Pathward supports commercial finance through working capital, equipment finance, structured finance, and insurance premium finance. Committed to financial inclusion, Pathward powers financial access and innovation through strategic partnerships, including efforts to support renewable energy loan growth.

📋 Description

• Execute the quality assurance program focused on Second Line of Defense Financial Crimes activities across BSA/AML, Sanctions, and Fraud • Perform detailed QA reviews of 2LoD casework, memos, and decisions for accuracy, completeness, risk-based judgment, and regulatory alignment • Evaluate the quality of 2LoD oversight, including issue identification, escalation, and resolution • Identify inconsistencies in decision-making and gaps in challenge or governance • Conduct horizontal reviews across 2LoD outputs to identify systemic weaknesses, ineffective challenge, missed escalation opportunities, and policy-interpretation inconsistencies • Develop insights into emerging risks and control blind spots within 2LoD • Document QA findings, root causes, impacts on risk management, and severity ratings • Track and validate remediation of identified Compliance issues • Provide independent challenge within the 2LoD function • Support regulatory exams by demonstrating the effectiveness and rigor of 2LoD oversight and QA practices • Identify opportunities to standardize oversight practices, enhance documentation and governance protocols, and use data analytics to identify anomalies or inconsistencies

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Risk Management, or related field • 2+ years of experience in Financial Crimes (AML, Sanctions, Fraud) • Direct experience in 2LoD Compliance / Financial Crimes oversight or Quality Assurance / Testing of Financial Crimes functions • Strong knowledge of BSA/AML and sanctions regulatory expectations • Strong knowledge of 2LoD roles and responsibilities within a three lines of defense model • Strong knowledge of financial crime risk management frameworks and governance practices • Experience reviewing complex financial crime cases and providing oversight or challenge • Strong analytical and judgment skills • Strong sense of independence and professional skepticism • Ability to assess quality of judgment and oversight, not just execution • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Ability to influence and challenge peers within Compliance • Attention to detail with a focus on consistency and governance • Strong organizational and problem-solving skills

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual performance-based incentive opportunity • Health insurance • 401(k) retirement benefits • Life insurance • Disability benefits • Paid time off • Comprehensive benefits package for eligible employees • Hybrid, remote-office work arrangement • Reasonable accommodation for applicants with disabilities, as applicable