Principal AML Compliance Advisor

Capital One; New York (NY); On-site; USD 128,000 - 147,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial organization seeks a Principal AML Compliance Advisor in New York. This role involves maintaining KYC compliance, assessing risks, and collaborating with various teams to ensure adherence to regulations. Candidates should possess significant experience in regulatory compliance and demonstrate strong analytical and communication skills.

Benefits

Comprehensive health benefits

Performance-based incentives

Qualifications

• 3+ years of regulatory compliance or risk management experience.
• Experience in financial services or AML functions.
• Strong understanding of AML risk management practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide compliance guidance on KYC requirements across business lines.
• Review and align KYC policies and procedures.
• Assess KYC compliance risks and identify remediation actions.

Skills

Critical thinking

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Education

High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent experience

Associates Degree

Job description

Principal AML Compliance Advisor

The KYC Advisor Associate performs a key risk management role (second line of defense) to help ensure corporate initiatives and lines of business processes comply with applicable laws and regulations. The role will collaborate across multiple lines of businesses and teams to deliver KYC requirements and monitor compliance with regulatory standards. The KYC Advisor Associate is responsible for delivering quality and timely results, providing compliance advice to business lines as a KYC subject matter expert, and executing or participating in corporate risk management processes.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain subject matter expertise of applicable anti-money laundering laws and regulations and support business lines by providing guidance on KYC compliance requirements

• Assist with establishing enterprise KYC standard/policy intent and review new/revised business line KYC policies, standards and procedures to ensure alignment

• Ensure KYC standard/policy is consistently applied across the lines of business

• Support KYC assessments to identify and address KYC gaps and areas of opportunities

• Assess operational breakdowns for KYC compliance risks and uncover data issues with significant KYC implications

• Leverage understanding of systems, data, and processes to identify root causes for KYC issues and recommend/lead related remediation efforts

• Ensure preventive and detective KYC controls and monitoring programs are in place and provide adequate coverage

• Provide effective challenge and guidance on KYC compliance risks and support business line through various interactions and forums; influence changes to processes, procedures, and controls to mitigate KYC compliance risk

• Review business line training materials with KYC compliance related content for accuracy and completeness.

• Support and communicate compliance risk appetite and key performance metrics to business lines

• Evaluate Audit, regulatory exam, and self-identified issues and events for KYC compliance impacts

• Monitor external KYC compliance environment, emerging risks, and regulatory focus areas.

• Analyze root causes of KYC compliance and risk issues.

The Person:

• Strong critical thinking, written and verbal communication skills, including experience in strategic and senior level communication

• Demonstrated ability to work in a continually evolving and dynamic environment

• Ability to build partnerships with others outside of their own team and influence others to ensure team’s success

• Exhibit drive for accomplishing tasks/delivering results and persist when faced with significant difficulties or resistance

• Analytical background with the ability to analyze data and reporting to create thoughtful and comprehensive reporting for key metrics

• Strong understanding of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) risk management practices, including regulatory requirements

Basic Qualifications:

• High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent experience

• At least 3 years of regulatory compliance experience, or at least 3 years or risk management experience, or at least 3 years of financial services industry experience

• At least 3 years of experience in financial services, or Anti-Money Laundering (AML) functions, or compliance risk management, or Anti-Money Laundering (AML) project management.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Associates Degree

• 5+ years of regulatory compliance experience, or at least 5 years or risk management experience, or at least 5 years of financial services industry experience

• 5+ years of experience in financial services, or Anti-Money Laundering (AML) functions, or compliance risk management, or Anti-Money Laundering (AML) project management.

• Previous experience supporting programs where senior leaders and external stakeholders are your customers

• Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and/or Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager (CRCM) certification

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

McLean, VA: $117,300 - $133,900 for Compliance Advisory Specialist IIINew York, NY: $128,000 - $146,100 for Compliance Advisory Specialist IIIPlano, TX: $106,700 - $121,700 for Compliance Advisory Specialist IIIRichmond, VA: $106,700 - $121,700 for Compliance Advisory Specialist III

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at theCapital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

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