Financial Crime Expert

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Hiring Remotely in Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, ESP
In-Office or Remote
Artificial Intelligence • Information Technology • Internet of Things
The Role

Description

ThetaRay is the leading provider of AI-based Big Data analytics. We are dedicated to helping financial organizations combat financial crimes like money laundering, which are is used to finance terrorism, narcotic and human trafficking, sex slavery, and other malicious acts. In addition, we have a Customer Risk Assessment (CRA) solution that helps our clients identify and apply EDD, when appropriate.

Our Cognitive AI machine learning solutions for AML can detect malicious behavior more accurately and well before existing rule-based and standard AI solutions. Cognitive AI replicates the decision-making capabilities of human intuition, one of the most accurate decision tools available. In so doing, our machine learning algorithmic solutions dramatically decrease the incidence of false positives while increasing the number of true positives. We uncover the unknown unknowns.

ThetaRay is looking for a Financial Crime Analyst to join our team. The primary responsibility of this Financial Crime Analyst will be deploying our KYC analysis and customer Risk assessments (CRA) solutions, as well as investigating analysis results, prioritizing alerts, communicating with the bank's analysts, summarizing "unknown" cases into reports, and suggesting ideas to enhance effectiveness and efficiency.

The candidate must possess comprehensive knowledge of Financial Crime and compliance in general, as well as a deep understanding of customer risk assessment functionalities, including the associated business processes, regulatory requirements, and operational aspects.

Responsibilities:

  • Work directly with customers as part of a dedicated project team.  
  • Connect  between  data  risks  and  regulatory  requirements. 
  • Review analysis  results  and  identify trends  in  the  data  to  enhance  the  overall investigative process.
  • Actively participate in project meetings, both internally and  with  customers,  contributing  valuable  insights  related  to  risks  and regulatory  aspects,  especially  as  they  relate  to  KYC  and  customer  risk analysis solutions.
  • Thoroughly review alerts and cases and actively contribute to the development of sampling methodologies to ensure the accuracy and reliability of results.
  • Summarize and present important cases to the customer, providing clear and concise insights and recommendations.
  • Gather feedback from  the  Compliance  and  business  teams  to  inform  and  guide  the development  of  future  steps  and  projects.  
  • Take  an  active  role  in  training customer analysts and provide support by demonstrating how to effectively use ThetaRay’s CRA solutions to perform deep investigations of suspicious cases.



Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
  • 5 years of hands-on experience, preferably within a bank, with a focus on AML analysis and investigation.
  • In-depth knowledge of Financial Crime and compliance principles, regulations, and practices.
  • Familiarity with AML use cases and the ability to connect ThetaRay's capabilities with customer needs and challenges.
  • Strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret complex data sets.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with internal teams and customers.
  • Detail-oriented with the ability to review and evaluate specific cases thoroughly.
  • Demonstrated experience in generating reports and presentations to convey complex information.
  • Fluent in English & Spanish both written and spoken.
  • Please submit your CV in English


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The Company
New York, NY
119 Employees
Year Founded: 2003

What We Do

At ThetaRay, we believe that banks no longer have to de-risk when they can expand their cross-border ecosystem safely. ThetaRay is the developer of SONAR, a groundbreaking, AI-powered, transaction-monitoring SaaS solution for cross-border payments that allows banks to expand their business opportunities by achieving safe and reliable cross-border payment monitorisation. ThetaRay's technology is the only packaged SaaS offering that analyzes SWIFT traffic, risk indicators, and client/payer/payee data to detect anomalies indicating money laundering activity across complex, cross-border transaction paths. It is also one of the only AI-driven AML solutions that can be easily integrated and deployed within days, with minimal implementation required. ThetaRay's solution increases detection capabilities for both supervised and unsupervised data and includes profiling and advanced analytics assessments, all in one platform. Financial organizations that rely on highly heterogeneous and complex ecosystems benefit greatly from ThetaRay's unmatchable low false-positive rates.

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