Global Financial Crimes: Targeted Quality Assurance Analyst
POSTING DATE: May 31, 2023
PRIMARY LOCATION: Europe, Middle East, Africa-United Kingdom-United Kingdom-Glasgow
EDUCATION LEVEL: Bachelor's Degree
JOB: Other
EMPLOYMENT TYPE: Full Time
JOB LEVEL: Manager
Global Financial Crimes: Targeted Quality Assurance Analyst
3237455
Glasgow
Manager
Global Financial Crimes (GFC) coordinates day-to-day implementation of the Firm's enterprise-wide financial crime prevention efforts. GFC includes several legal and compliance disciplines and has responsibility for governance, oversight, and execution of the Firm's Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Economic Sanctions, Anti-Tax Evasion, Anti-Corruption and Government and Political Activities Compliance programs. GFC also develops and/or assists in the development of appropriate policies and procedures, including those designed to assist the business units to know their clients and conduct appropriate due diligence and to prevent, detect and report potentially suspicious activity.
The GFC Quality Assurance (QA) Team performs manual reviews of financial crimes-related monitoring activities and select KYC activities (e.g., Enhanced Due Diligence for higher risk customers) on an ongoing basis to assess quality and consistency in the disposition of alerts, the collection and analysis of onboarding information, and other financial crimes-related processes in both the first and second lines of defense. The GFC QA Team provides information and insight to control owners to promote consistency across business units and regions in adherence to global standards, continuous improvement of processes and controls, and effective management of financial crime-related risks.
About Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.
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What will you be doing?
The QA Analyst based in Glasgow is responsible for performing targeted GFC QA reviews based on prioritized workstreams that are subject to change over time, and includes the following activities:
- Performing population extraction and sampling of completed work items for QA review
- Reviewing completed work items and completing analysis sheets containing procedural and analytical questions regarding the disposition of those items for the monitoring activities assigned
Determining whether the disposition of the work item demonstrates an understanding of the work item and appropriately addresses the material risk
- Determining whether the decision to close the work item or to escalate it to the next level of review was appropriate
- Documenting the QA review process and results
- Providing as-needed support and guidance to other GFC QA Analysts on the assigned area of expertise. Note: After demonstrating expertise in role, Targeted QA Analysts may be asked to undertake additional responsibility as reporting owners, regularly communicating results and feedback with one or more areas of GFC QA coverage, as well as being their primary point of contact for GFC QA.
Supporting QA management in efforts to enhance consistency in the performance of GFC activities across processes, business lines, and regions
Supporting QA management as needed during regulatory examinations and internal audits
What we’re looking for
Skills Required
Candidates must have:
- Professional experience in an anti-money laundering or anti-financial crime group at a large financial institution, including experience conducting or reviewing customer due diligence
- Demonstrated ability to learn new processes quickly
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Excellent time management skills and ability to execute tasks within tight deadlines
- Excellent analytical skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills necessary to work effectively and collaboratively with colleagues and stakeholders across regions and business units
- Ability to identify root causes for recurring issues identified during the QA process
- Attention to detail
- Ability to take thoughtful and effective ownership of assigned areas of responsibility
- Experience with managing data and records in Excel
- Certification as an Anti-Money Laundering Specialist by ACAMS or equivalent AML certification/license — or certification within 15 months of hire
Skills Desired
- Experience with Microsoft 365 Suite
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