BSA Specialist
Job Description
Are you detail-oriented and passionate about ensuring compliance in the financial sector? This role offers the opportunity to contribute to the mission of a community-focused financial cooperative by supporting internal quality control and compliance with regulations. As a BSA Specialist, you will play a critical role in monitoring and mitigating risks, ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements, and supporting the organization’s commitment to improving lives.
Compensation and Benefits:
- $43 - 60K
- Comprehensive benefits package, including healthcare, retirement plans, and paid leave
What You’ll Do:
- Transaction Monitoring: Review and document BSA/AML alerts within the transaction monitoring system to detect potentially suspicious activity. Clear false positive alerts or escalate cases for further investigation.
- Regulatory Reporting: Process and submit Currency Transaction Reports (CTRs) accurately and within required timeframes.
- Daily Compliance Oversight: Analyze reports, including financial activity and shared branching, to identify potentially reportable transactions.
- Collaborative Compliance: Support the BSA Compliance Officer by monitoring regulatory lists (e.g., 314(a)), responding within required timeframes, and collaborating with other institutions on shared information requests.
- OFAC Review: Assess potential matches from OFAC and other watch lists, clearing false positives or coordinating reporting for true matches with the BSA Compliance Officer.
- Additional Duties: Monitor FRB returns for suspicious activity and perform other related compliance tasks as assigned.
Who We’re Looking For:
- Experience: 1-3 years of related experience in compliance or quality roles.
- Education: Completion of a two-year college degree, specialized certifications, or equivalent job-specific training.
- Skills: Strong interpersonal and communication skills, proficiency in ten-key calculators and keyboarding, and completion of required in-house compliance training within the first 12 months.
Type of Employment:
Full-time
Location
Santa Fe, NM
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Meet Your Recruiter
Abby Dietz
CEO
Originally from Pennsylvania, Abby Dietz moved to Santa Fe from Northern Virginia/DC Metro area in 2011. She joined The Hire Firm in a temporary role but fit the culture so well we decided to keep her! Her strong background in sales, customer service, and executive administrative skills was the perfect blend for a staffing and recruiting professional. Abby has a fantastic ability to quickly understand clients’ needs and match those needs with talented candidates. She now focuses on managing the firm bu still recruits because she enjoys it so much.
Abby is a living success story for temporary and temp-to-hire opportunities and has obtained three long-term, rewarding positions in her career that started as temporary or temp-to-hire. She believes in what we do and knows first-hand how being open and flexible can lead to great opportunities. She would love to share her story with anyone who is curious about it!
When she’s not working, she enjoys recharging on backpacking trips, spending time with family, friends, and fur babies, and taking classes on whatever is currently of interest to her! Her pronouns are she/her and she invites you to share yours.