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Anti-Money Laundering Specialist, CG-1160-12

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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Summary

This position is located in the Division of Risk Management Supervision, San Francisco Region of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and provides support in the areas of Anti-Money Laundering.

Additional selections may be made from this vacancy announcement to fill identical vacancies that occur subsequent to this announcement.

Overview

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Hiring complete
Open & closing dates
06/10/2024 to 06/21/2024
Salary
$95,658 to - $202,652 per year
Pay scale & grade
CG 12
Locations
3 vacancies in the following locations:
Orange, CA
San Francisco, CA
Billings, MT
Salt Lake City, UT
Remote job
No
Telework eligible
Yes—The FDIC offers position-specific telework options. Please see the Additional Information section below for more information. Telework options are subject to change.
Travel Required
75% or less - This position requires frequent overnight travel.
Relocation expenses reimbursed
Yes—Relocation benefits may be provided in accordance with FDIC policy.
Appointment type
Permanent
Work schedule
Full-time
Service
Competitive
Promotion potential
12
Job family (Series)
Supervisory status
No
Security clearance
Other
Drug test
No
Position sensitivity and risk
Moderate Risk (MR)
Trust determination process
Announcement number
2024-RMS-DB510
Control number
795013200

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Clarification from the agency

This position is open to all United States Citizens. Applicants with status or those eligible under special hiring authorities, should apply under FDIC merit promotion announcement 2024-RMS-B510. However, if you desire consideration also under this public non-status announcement, you must apply to both. Status applicants are current permanent Federal employees in the competitive service and former Federal employees with reinstatement eligibility.

Duties

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  • Evaluates the adequacy of institutions' money laundering/terrorist financing (ML/TF) and other illicit finance risk assessment processes. Evaluates bank practices, procedures, and methods designed to prevent, detect, investigate, and report suspicious activity of money laundering, terrorist financing, and fraud. Analyzes bank's processes to identify and review transactions for possible OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) violations.
  • Assesses the adequacy of the institution's anti-money laundering/countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) policies, procedures, software, MIS reporting, and internal risk rating factors to manage complexities associated with new and existing specific risk categories.
  • Serves as project lead on AML/CFT examinations and OFAC sanction reviews.
  • Provides advice on AML/CFT examination and enforcement matters, presents findings associated with supervisory appeals, delivers supervisory and enforcement action findings and recommendations, and explains complex technical concepts.
  • Develops and delivers AML/CFT and OFAC training programs or information internally as well as at industry outreach events on behalf of the Division and Corporation.
  • Prepares written reports and memorandums summarizing the scopes and results of AML/CFT and OFAC examinations and reviews, targeted reviews, analyses, studies, ongoing monitoring and other supervisory findings to inform senior management of significant issues and recommend appropriate supervisory action.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

Registration with the Selective Service.

U.S. Citizenship is required.  

Employment Conditions.

Completion of Financial Disclosure may be required.

Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) required.

Qualifications

Qualifying experience may be obtained in the private or public sector. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g. Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic, religious spiritual; community; student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.  Additional qualifications information can be found here.
To qualify, applicants must have completed at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the grade 11 level or above in the Federal service.  Specialized experience is defined as experience leading examinations or audits of regional or national financial institutions that offer different products and services in multiple geographic locations. Such examinations or audits assess compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act, and rules pertaining to Anti-Money Laundering, Customer Identification Program, and Office of Foreign Assets Control; and provide training to others regarding how to conduct these activities.
 
Applicants eligible for ICTAP (Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program) must achieve a score of 80 or higher in the online assessment to be determined “well qualified” for this position. For more information, click here.

Education

There is no substitution of education for the experience for this position.

Additional information

Selectees(s) for this position will be required to report in person to an FDIC office or financial institution at their supervisor’s direction.

The range of pay shown includes base pay plus supplemental locality adjustments. The locality rates for these duty locations range from a low of 16.82% to a high of 51.75%. Pay will vary by grade level and the locality rate for the geographic location where the position is located. For more on FDIC locality rates, click here.

If selected, you may be required to serve a probationary period.

To read about your rights and responsibilities as an applicant for Federal employment, click here.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Your resume and the online assessment questionnaire will be reviewed to determine whether you meet the qualification requirements outlined in this announcement. Therefore, it is imperative that your resume contain sufficiently detailed information upon which to make the qualification determination. Please ensure that your resume contains specific information such as position titles, beginning and ending dates of employment for each position, average number of hours worked per week, and if the position is/was in the Federal government, you should provide the position series and grade level.

Your resume will also be evaluated to measure your responses to the assessment questions. If you rated yourself higher on the questionnaire than what is supported by your resume, your overall qualifications assessment may be adversely affected.

If you are found qualified, you will be placed in one of three categories: Best Qualified, Highly Qualified, or Qualified. These category assignments are a measure of the degree in which your background and responses to the assessment questions match the competencies/knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) listed below. Within these categories, candidates eligible for veterans’ preference will receive selection priority over non-veterans.

  1. Knowledge of the AML/CFT regulations, OFAC sanctions programs, corresponding guidance and statements, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) guidance and advisories, OFAC guidance and advisories, and international AML/CFT standards.
  2. Ability to analyze banking transactions at moderately to highly complex institutions, underlying documentation, bank documents and reports, manual transaction monitoring systems, automated account surveillance monitoring systems, and reports obtained from the FinCEN.
  3. Knowledge of banking operations and practices at moderately to highly complex institutions, specifically in the area of AML/CFT and OFAC compliance, and AML/CFT examination procedures, including the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) BSA/AML Examination Manual, and Division of Risk Management Supervision AML/CFT and OFAC sanctions policies and guidance.
  4. Ability to plan, organize, and manage both individual and project workloads, and accomplish AML/CFT examination activities with limited guidance and oversight.
  5. Ability to communicate orally.
  6. Ability to conduct and develop AML/CFT training programs.
  7. Ability to communicate in writing.

You do not need to respond separately to these KSAs. Your answers to the online questionnaire and resume will serve as responses to the KSAs. 


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