Special Investigations Unit Director jobs in Wisconsin

This position is a hybrid role with weekly in-office expectations. Due to those work requirements, candidates must be located in Milwaukee, WI; Green Bay, WI; or Chicago, IL.

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TheDirector of Financial Crime Prevention & Operationsrole with Associated Bank will be responsible for ensuring our financial crime program meets regulatory expectations and appropriately safeguards our company and our customers. They will be responsible for ensuring the financial crime and prevention model is robust and evolving to detect and prevent financial crime, and ensuring compliance with intersecting risk requirements such as BSA and operational risk.

This person will:

• Execute on strategic direction for an enterprise-wide monitoring program that needs to continuously respond and quickly adapt to regulatory changes and market trends globally to protect the firm and customers from loss or risk due to financial crimes.
• Develop and maintain the financial crime prevention and investigation strategy, project sponsorship and requirements to ensure a strong, risk based effective financial crime program including prevention, detection, investigations and reporting. Ensures a robust prevention and investigation framework that includes adhering to compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) regulations. It also complies with all operational risk requirements that intersects with financial crime and prevention - such as supporting model risk management, business change, payment risk, and loss event / root cause reporting.
• Support model ownership, definition, documentation, ongoing tuning/optimization, governance and working with the various governance & oversight teams to ensure adherence to firm policies.
• Effectively interface with business financial crime leaders to understand and deliver their financial crimes monitoring and surveillance capabilities including partnership with IT and Corp Risk Intelligence to ensure adequate system integration, data and reporting to maintain all elements of the financial crime program - detection, prevention, investigation and reporting.
• Maintain policies, programs, procedures, risk assessment and documentation with execution and maintenance of a comprehensive framework and FID team to monitor transactional activity, make decisions, track, report, seek recoveries, and limit future losses.
• Provide ongoing reporting and exam leadership on financial crimes to appropriate management and board committees and executive management, audit and regulators. Facilitate effective response to financial crimes-related regulatory examinations.
• Lead through financial crime attacks and readily adjust and lead the team to minimize impact of threats and concerted crime efforts.
• Lead the team with integrity and create an environment where employees feel included, valued, and supported to do work that energizes them. Foster strong collaboration among team leaders and colleagues to ensure a unified approach to financial crime management with full transparency to ensure robust detection and mitigation across all functions.
• Perform management responsibilities which include sourcing and hiring talented employees, providing ongoing coaching and feedback, recognizing and developing employees, identifying and managing risks, and completing daily management tasks.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in Business, Finance, Financial Crime, Compliance or related field.
• 10 years' risk management experience, including compliance, financial crimes, operational risk, audit, legal, credit risk, IT systems security, and process management.
• 7 years management experience.