AML CIU Compliance Analyst II

Why Stifel

Stifel strives for a culture that puts its clients and associates first: a culture where everyone belongs, everyone is welcome, and everyone contributes to the success of our clients, their careers, and the firm as a whole.

Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success.

What You'll Be Doing

The Compliance Analyst II Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Client Intelligence Unit (CIU) International systematically reviews high-risk clients from a risk-based approach. The AML CIU Analyst conducts surveillance reviews to identify potential suspicious transactional activity. This includes onboarding reviews, Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) reviews, sanction reviews, negative news/derogatory information reviews, potential Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) match reviews, beneficial ownership reviews, and new foreign account reviews.

What We're Looking For

• Perform a holistic Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) review of high-risk customers using customer risk scoring models per departmental processes and procedures.
• Perform transactional monitoring for possible money laundering and terrorist financing using automated AML software monitoring systems, reports, and other methods for high-risk clients.
• Effectively investigates, documents, and identifies suspicious activity using seasoned judgment to determine if a Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR) needs to be filed.
• Prepares and files SARs for the AML CIU team.
• Review and conduct adverse media searches and suggest account restrictions and/or account closures based on risk to the institution.
• Perform Customer Due Diligence (CDD) reviews for PEPs, sanctioned individuals, Negative News/ Derogatory information, and potential OFAC matches.
• Perform onboarding reviews for Capital Market clients and reviews of new foreign accounts.
• Perform extensive background investigations using public and private databases per AML and other regulatory standards to help prevent operational and reputational risk.
• Identifies potential gaps in AML CDD/EDD/Global Sanction processes, offers possible solutions, and assists in creating and maintaining up-to-date policies and procedural documentation.
• Assists with preparation and delivery of compliance associate training.
• Assists in the training and development of new and existing associates.
• Other duties assigned by leadership.

What You'll Bring

• Good understanding of AML BSA Compliance for CIP, KYC, CDD, EDD, transaction monitoring, and global sanctions for US and foreign clients.
• Previous experience onboarding foreign clients and conducting holistic EDD reviews of high-risk foreign clients.
• Ability to identify and report suspicious activity.
• Strong understanding of complex transactional life cycles within a financial enterprise, including but not limited to brokerage, banking, lending, credit cards, and investment banking.
• Working knowledge of compliance analysis and reporting with the ability to identify and affect appropriate risk and control mechanisms.
• Fluent in Spanish with the ability to speak and read English and Spanish regarding the review of documents.
• Fluency in other Latin American languages is a plus.

Education & Experience

• Minimum Required: Bachelor's Degree or High School Diploma with relevant work experience.
• Minimum Required: 3+ years of experience in Anti-Money Laundering or experience in bank, brokerage, and trust transactional reviews.

Licenses & Credentials

• FINRA SIE, Series 7, and Series 63 are preferred.
• CAMS is preferred.

Systems & Technology

• Proficient in Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• AML software, Capital Markets surveillance, and SQL Server.

About Stifel

Stifel is more than 130 years old and still thinking like a start-up.  We are a global wealth management and investment banking firm serious about innovation and fresh ideas.  Built on a simple premise of safeguarding our clients’ money as if it were our own, coined by our namesake, Herman Stifel, our success is intimately tied to our commitment to helping families, companies, and municipalities find their own success.

While our headquarters is in St. Louis, we have offices in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, and more than 400 other locations.  Stifel is home to approximately 9,000 individuals who are currently building their careers as financial advisors, research analysts, project managers, marketing specialists, developers, bankers, operations associates, among hundreds more.  Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success.

At Stifel we offer an entrepreneurial environment, comprehensive benefits package to include health, dental and vision care, 401k, wellness initiatives, life insurance, and paid time off.

Stifel is an Equal Opportunity Employer.