Vice President, AML Investigator – Digital Assets

We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Vice President, AML Investigator – Digital Assets, to join our Financial Crimes Compliance team. This role is located in Pittsburgh, PA or Lake Mary, FL.

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways: 

• Mitigate financial crimes risk through effective identification, investigation, and reporting of suspicious activity with a principle focus on digital assets in compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and USA PATRIOT ACT.

• Make defensible and timely decisions to escalate or close initial investigations on client digital asset wallets and/or activities therein. 

• Conduct complex investigations covering fiat currency in BNY’s traditional products and services and digital assets (internal and external to the bank) across multiple blockchains (coins, tokens, tokenized RWA) involving potential money laundering, terrorist financing, fraud, and other financial crimes. Investigations will require in-depth research, analysis of transactional data (to include digital assets, wire (domestic and international), ACH, check, and debit cards), well-written narratives, and ability to leverage multiple bank platforms.

• Draft timely, accurate, and high-quality Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) in accordance with FinCEN regulations and guidance, while clearly documenting decisions when SAR filing are not warranted. 

• Demonstrate strong judgement, exceptional attention to detail, and ability to manage a high-volume caseload independently under tight deadlines.

• Make continuous positive contributions to digital assets AML investigations and case management processes including limited responsibility for blockchain analytics vendor integrations and functioning.

• Make continuous positive contributions to the corpus of existing policy, procedure, training modules and desktop guides covering AML for digital assets.

• Build effective working relationships and communicate clearly with leadership and cross-functional partners to support team goals and investigative outcomes. 

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following: 

• Bachelors’ degree or the equivalent combination of education and experience is required.

• 3+ years within the financial services industry with direct experience running AML investigations of digital assets cases and strong knowledge of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and USA PATRIOT ACT.

• Demonstrated ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment through hands-on support and strong teamwork.

• Experience in financial services with digital assets is desired. 

• Experience working for a financial institution on AML/ KYC/ anti-fraud related projects and/or ACAMS (Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists) or CFE (Certified Fraud Examiner) certification and intelligence work in the private or public sector, is preferred

• Experience with Chainalysis and Elliptic a plus