The Head / Director, AML Investigations is a senior leadership role accountable for the design, execution, and continuous improvement of the institution's AML Investigations and client EDD program. The role holder serves as the institution's primary decision-making authority across alert adjudication, complex case investigation, SAR filing, and risk-based enhanced due diligence for higher-risk customer.
- Design, execution, and continuous improvement of the institution's AML Investigations and client EDD program.
- Serve as the primary decision-making authority across alert adjudication, complex case investigation, SAR filing, and risk-based enhanced due diligence for higher-risk customers.
- Provide strategic and operational oversight of the full alert lifecycle, from transaction monitoring and name-screening triage to investigation, disposition, and escalation.
- Establish SLAs, KPIs, and quality assurance frameworks for alert adjudication, case aging, and investigator output.
- Direct the institution's SAR program, ensuring narrative quality and timely filing with FinCEN.
- Bachelor's degree
- MBA
- Master's
- Nice to have: CAMS
- Nice to have: FCI
Director, Head of AML InvestigationsScotiabank · Dallas, US