Senior AML Compliance Lead – Securities & Financial Crime

Transamerica; Cedar Rapids (IA); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension Plan

401k Match

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Tuition Reimbursement

Disability Insurance

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Employee Discounts

Career Training & Development

Job summary

Transamerica is seeking a senior AML/compliance professional to lead complex monitoring, investigations, and risk assessments across securities, broker-dealer, and affiliated insurance activities.

The role provides subject-matter leadership, guides regulatory interpretation, and implements remediation strategies while collaborating with business partners. Hybrid work in multiple locations is available.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of regulatory compliance, securities, financial services, risk management, internal audit, testing, monitoring

Responsibilities

• Lead complex compliance monitoring, testing, reviews, risk-based assessments, and control evaluations across assigned securities or regulated compliance functions.
• Evaluate complex business processes, policies, procedures, communications, transactions, complaints, disclosures, or other assigned activity to identify significant risks, trends, and control gaps.
• Guide interpretation of applicable laws, regulations, regulatory guidance, firm policies, and procedures and advise stakeholders on practical application.
• Lead complex AML reviews, including transaction monitoring, exception reporting, investigations, escalations, and assessment of trends, potential suspicious activity, compliance risks, and related program or control enhancements.
• Lead or coordinate responses to regulatory examinations, regulatory inquiries, internal reviews, audits, investigations, or information requests.
• Evaluate findings, root causes, corrective action plans, recurring issues, and remediation strategies to support sustainable control improvements.
• Serve as an AML subject matter resource to business partners, compliance stakeholders, and management on complex AML requirements, financial-crime risks, and practical application.
• Influence AML remediation strategy, control design, policy updates, training, tools, procedures, and implementation decisions to strengthen compliance outcomes.
• Lead or represent Compliance on complex projects, program enhancements, regulatory change initiatives, business transformation efforts, or enterprise initiatives.
• Provide informal leadership, coaching, training, technical guidance, quality review support, and knowledge sharing to team members and business partners.

Skills

Regulatory knowledge

AML compliance

Communication skills

Independent work

Leadership support

Microsoft Office proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, legal studies, risk management, compliance or related field

Tools

Case management systems

Surveillance systems

Job description

Transamerica is seeking a senior AML/compliance professional to lead complex monitoring, investigations, and risk assessments across securities, broker-dealer, and affiliated insurance activities.

The role provides subject-matter leadership, guides regulatory interpretation, and implements remediation strategies while collaborating with business partners. Hybrid work in multiple locations is available.