Join a leading financial services company as an Financial Crimes Screening Analyst supporting adverse media and negative news screening in Charlotte, NC or Des Moines, IA. This 6-month contract focuses on due diligence and financial crimes risk identification.
This is an opportunity for an investigative professional who is comfortable working through ambiguity and making well-supported risk assessments. You will evaluate adverse media involving new and existing clients, research and validate information, document clear rationales, and help determine whether negative news represents a material financial crimes risk.
Contract Duration: 6 months, with possible extension
Required Skills & Experience- 2+ years of name screening experience related to financial crimes, regulatory matters, or risk identification.
- Proven ability to read and interpret adverse media and identify the subject matter, alerting party, and the alerting party’s role in an article.
- Research and investigative due diligence experience, including validating article details and identifying missing data attributes.
- Ability to document screening rationale clearly and concisely.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word products.
- Quality control awareness.
Desired Skills & Experience- Financial crimes knowledge.
- Regulatory knowledge.
- Materiality and risk assessment experience, with the critical-thinking ability to distinguish adverse news from material news.
- Strong analytical writing skills, including the ability to distinguish what a source reports, what research establishes, and how the evidence supports a disposition.
- Workflow management and assignment distribution experience.
- Adverse media or negative news name-screening experience.
- Financial crimes risk management experience such as background investigations or due diligence.
- Legal or financial crimes experience that supports interpretation of nuanced news content.
What You Will Be Doing- Review and assess adverse media involving new and existing clients and determine whether identified information presents a material financial crimes risk.
- Execute due diligence screening accurately within established time frames.
- Exercise independent judgment when handling medium-risk screening deliverables.
- Research and validate adverse-media information and escalate results when appropriate.
- Support screening operations, including workflow management, business continuity, data gathering, and analysis.
- Apply knowledge of screening functions, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements to process walkthroughs, procedure reviews, testing engagements, and transformation activities.
- Collaborate with peers, managers, and internal and external customers to resolve screening and production issues.
- Analyze screening processes and controls to identify improvement opportunities.
- Participate in screening process improvement initiatives and focus groups.
- Support senior consultants with training facilitation, quality reviews, and post-training support for new screening consultants.
- Aggregate, evaluate, and report screening results and escalate issues when necessary.