Western Union · 1 month ago
Lead Analyst, AML Compliance - US&Intl
USA - CO - Denver
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$90K/yr - $115K/yr
4+ years expWestern Union is a global organization focused on providing secure and reliable financial services. The Lead Analyst will play a critical role in the Financial Intelligence Unit, responsible for mitigating money laundering and terrorist financing risks through the design and enhancement of transaction monitoring rules and control programs.
Financial ExchangesFinancial ServicesInternetMobile PaymentsPayments
Responsibilities
Responsible for the design of targeted, risk-based transaction monitoring rules and control programs, particularly for rules associated with complex, impactful, or novel jurisdictions and products
Serve as a primary resource for Senior Analysts on methodology, rule logic, and review handling and translates management priorities into actionable tasks and ensures consistent application of standards
Identify conceptual risks and translating them into systematic controls
Support the ongoing enhancement of our risk-based program design as part of the Compliance Analytics and Design Team (FIU-CA&D) team including assessments associated with WU's organization, consumers, corridors/geographies, and products
Analyze and evolve the control and monitoring programs to be more dynamic as system capabilities are enhanced by working with live data
Support a strong Culture of Compliance where in-depth data analysis, open-source research and intelligence gathering from existing Compliance departments is required to identify if Western Union’s products are being abused by individuals or organizations across 120+ jurisdictions while ensuring that Western Union designs and maintains industry leading risk mitigation programs & systems
Possess a high degree of integrity, confidentiality, independent and sound judgment, and professionalism, as well as excellent oral and written communication skills
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree or 4 years of equivalent job experience in the financial services industry is acceptable
Advanced Microsoft Office skills (Excel, Word, and Powerpoint) including the use of pivot tables
Strong analytical skills required, investigative experience specifically transactional data analysis and exposure to transaction monitoring controls preferred
Detail oriented, excellent organizational skills, ability to multi-task under tight deadlines
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Demonstrated initiative and creative problem-solving skills
Understanding of the Global Money Remittances Industry as it relates to anti-money laundering, terrorist financing and fraud typologies
Knowledge of the global laws and regulations applicable to money laundering, including the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), The USA PATRIOT Act
Understanding of international regulatory bodies and organizations
Team player with strong collaborative qualities and a positive demeanor
Ability to work on confidential and sensitive matters with a high degree of professionalism and discretion
Proven track-record of successfully evaluating and providing analysis on transaction monitoring rule suites sufficient to support a conclusion that the candidate can work more complex assignments including but not limited to jurisdictions under novel monitoring, the introduction of new products, or rule suites that demonstrate substantial integration of regulatory / stakeholder feedback
Ability to successfully conduct quality control reviews on tasks performed by others
Ability to successfully manage multiple projects / workstreams simultaneously and operate with minimal management oversight
Preferred
Experience with Snowflake / SQL or Python preferred
Strong analytical skills required, investigative experience specifically transactional data analysis and exposure to transaction monitoring controls preferred
Benefits
Flexible Time off
Medical, Dental and Life Insurance
Parental Leave
Global Adoption Assistance
401K plan
Company
Western Union
Western Union provides consumers and businesses with fast, reliable and convenient ways to send and receive money around the world.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$800M2026-01-09Post Ipo Debt· $800M
2006-10-02IPO
Leadership Team
Nicolas Levi
Regional Vice President Middle East Afghanistan Pakistan
Ashutosh Shinde
Head - Technology Engineering Center (India)
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