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Global Financial Crimes Investigator

Merrill Lynch

Merrill Lynch

Accounting & Finance
New York, NY, USA · United States · Remote
Posted on Aug 19, 2025

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Job Description:
This job is responsible for performing end-to-end investigations or investigations support functions of external financial crimes activities across one or more lines of business. Key responsibilities include conducting routine to complex investigations, including fraud committed by external parties, money laundering, or terrorist financing and acting as the liaison to Law Enforcement as required.

Responsibilities:

  • Completes investigations while overseeing cases meet or exceed closure and quality metrics

  • Completes Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR) in a timely and accurate manner for submission to regulators and/or law enforcement

  • Reports facts of the investigation to senior stakeholders, assisting in identifying potential operational or compliance risks and partners with Global Financial Crimes (GFC) Management and/or Front Line Units (FLU) to resolve investigations

  • Performs quality control functions, training, communications, guidance, monitoring scenario development/enhancement input and testing, or law enforcement liaison responsibilities in an investigative support role

Preferred Technical Skills:

  • Risk Identification & Assessment

  • Line of Business (LoB) Products, Services & Acumen

  • Risk Governance & Reporting

  • Financial Crimes Risk Programs

  • Enhanced Due Diligence

  • Customer Due Diligence

  • Regulatory Knowledge

  • Case Investigations & Resolution

  • High Risk Activities & Typologies

Required Qualifications:

  • Minimum of five years of relevant experience

Desired Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in related field

  • Experience in financial services and/or a related government entity

  • Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS)

Skills:

  • Critical Thinking

  • Fraud Management

  • Regulatory Compliance

  • Written Communications

  • Investigation Management

  • Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines Management

  • Reporting

  • Risk Management

  • Coaching

  • Issue Management

  • Talent Development

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40