Financial Crimes QA Analyst I
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Financial crimes QA analyst reviewing BSA/AML, sanctions, and fraud oversight for Pathward, a financial empowerment company. Testing 2LoD governance, challenging decisions, and strengthening risk management.
Responsibilities:
- Execute the quality assurance program focused on Second Line of Defense Financial Crimes activities across BSA/AML, Sanctions, and Fraud
- Perform detailed QA reviews of 2LoD casework, memos, and decisions for accuracy, completeness, risk-based judgment, and regulatory alignment
- Evaluate the quality of 2LoD oversight, including issue identification, escalation, and resolution
- Identify inconsistencies in decision-making and gaps in challenge or governance
- Conduct horizontal reviews across 2LoD outputs to identify systemic weaknesses, ineffective challenge, missed escalation opportunities, and policy-interpretation inconsistencies
- Develop insights into emerging risks and control blind spots within 2LoD
- Document QA findings, root causes, impacts on risk management, and severity ratings
- Track and validate remediation of identified Compliance issues
- Provide independent challenge within the 2LoD function
- Support regulatory exams by demonstrating the effectiveness and rigor of 2LoD oversight and QA practices
- Identify opportunities to standardize oversight practices, enhance documentation and governance protocols, and use data analytics to identify anomalies or inconsistencies
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Risk Management, or related field
- 2+ years of experience in Financial Crimes (AML, Sanctions, Fraud)
- Direct experience in 2LoD Compliance / Financial Crimes oversight or Quality Assurance / Testing of Financial Crimes functions
- Strong knowledge of BSA/AML and sanctions regulatory expectations
- Strong knowledge of 2LoD roles and responsibilities within a three lines of defense model
- Strong knowledge of financial crime risk management frameworks and governance practices
- Experience reviewing complex financial crime cases and providing oversight or challenge
- Strong analytical and judgment skills
- Strong sense of independence and professional skepticism
- Ability to assess quality of judgment and oversight, not just execution
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to influence and challenge peers within Compliance
- Attention to detail with a focus on consistency and governance
- Strong organizational and problem-solving skills
Benefits:
- Annual performance-based incentive opportunity
- Health insurance
- 401(k) retirement benefits
- Life insurance
- Disability benefits
- Paid time off
- Comprehensive benefits package for eligible employees
- Hybrid, remote-office work arrangement
- Reasonable accommodation for applicants with disabilities, as applicable


















