[Hiring] Senior BSA Analyst @Arundel Bank

Role Description

Arundel Bank is seeking an experienced Senior BSA Analyst to join our Risk Department. This is an excellent opportunity for a financial-crimes professional who enjoys complex investigative work, values accuracy and sound judgment, and wants to contribute to a stable, community-focused financial institution.

• Own the daily and periodic administration of the Bank’s automated BSA/AML monitoring system, including alert review, case management, report review, investigation, documentation, escalation, and regulatory reporting.
• Maintain monitoring-system effectiveness through data validation, interface reconciliation, scenario and parameter review, testing, tuning recommendations, and documentation of changes and results.
• Independently investigate complex alerts, referrals, relationships, and transaction patterns for potential structuring, money laundering, terrorist financing, fraud, sanctions exposure, or other suspicious activity.
• Prepare accurate SARs and supporting narratives, recommend filing or non-filing decisions, complete continuing-activity reviews, and review, validate, and file CTRs and exemptions within required timeframes.
• Perform customer and enhanced due diligence for moderate- and higher-risk relationships and activities.
• Research potential OFAC and sanctions matches, document disposition decisions, and promptly escalate possible true matches or prohibited activity.
• Provide BSA/AML guidance, training, and coaching to co-workers.
• Support risk assessments, audits, independent testing, regulatory examinations, management and Board reporting, and corrective-action.

Qualifications

• Three to five years of financial institution BSA/AML/OFAC compliance or financial-crimes experience.
• Experience investigating complex alerts and cases and preparing SARs and CTRs.
• Working knowledge of BSA/AML/CFT, CIP, customer due diligence, beneficial ownership, and OFAC requirements.
• Proficiency with BSA/AML software and automated transaction-monitoring systems, such as Nasdaq Verafin or Abrigo BAM.
• Strong investigative, analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
• High attention to detail, sound judgment, and the ability to protect confidential information.
• BSA/AML certification, or the ability to obtain certification within a timeframe established by management. CAMS, CAFP, or a comparable certification is preferred.
• An associate or bachelor’s degree in a related field is preferred, GED required.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Opportunity for advancement
• Paid time off
• Profit sharing
• Training & development
• Vision insurance
• Wellness resources
• 401(k)
• Competitive salary
• Dental insurance

Company Description

As acquisitions continue to reshape the banking industry, Arundel Bank remains proudly based in Maryland and deeply rooted in Anne Arundel County. For 120 years, we have built lasting relationships with the customers, businesses, employees, and communities we serve. We have been here for 120 years, and we’ll be here for the years ahead.

Join Arundel Bank and bring your experience, judgment, and commitment to compliance to a community bank with 120 years of history in Anne Arundel County. If you are looking for more than just your next job and want to be part of a team that makes a meaningful difference in our community, we’d like to hear from you.

Flexible work from home options available.