Become part of the team that safeguards the financial system from the abuses of financial crime. At the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), we are at the forefront in preventing and detecting terrorist financing, money laundering, and other financial crime. Serve at the nation's financial intelligence unit and protect the United States financial system from criminals and terrorist financiers.

Duties

As an Audit and Information Access Specialist you will serve as a key liaison between FinCEN and its law enforcement, intelligence, and regulatory partners, as well as other customers. You work to ensure that the nation's experts on anti-money laundering, countering the financing of terrorism, and other financial crime have access to key financial intelligence, through the origination, negotiation, and supervision of the agency's memoranda of understanding and other interagency agreements. You will also ensure that those who have access to this financial intelligence are held to the highest standard of care through audits and inspections. This position will require regular travel, and frequent collaboration with law enforcement, intelligence agencies, federal and state regulators, and others. It further requires drafting and working with supervisors and counsel in generating operative legal documents, as well as being able to distill complex issues for agency leadership. The following are the duties of this position at the GS-14. If you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform all these duties and will receive training to help you grow in this position. Advises senior leadership on issues of non-compliance, including potential actions to address misuse or unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information. Implements and develops FinCEN's processes for approving or rejecting external requests for access to FinCEN's Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) databases. Partners with FinCEN's Office of Chief Counsel (OCC) to draft, negotiate, and establish memoranda of understanding (MOUs) between FinCEN and the agencies and private sector entities approved to access FinCEN's BSA and/or BOI databases, ensuring that the articulated purposes for which the external entity will access the BSA and/or BOI databases are consistent with both the external party's authorities and the legislative purposes of the BSA and/or CTA and their implementing regulations. Works closely on a day-to-day basis with external users' designated agency or company coordinators and internal stakeholders to administer access to the BSA and BOI databases and promote the proper use and safeguarding of BSA information and BOI. Oversees and assures external agencies' and private sector users' compliance with the terms of their Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for access to the BSA and/or BOI databases and the security of the data in those databases, including through the creation and maintenance of standard operating procedures (SOPs) for oversight and by carrying out oversight in the form of monitoring and compliance activities, annual reviews, and audits of external agencies or private sector entities authorized to access the databases. Applies risk management and understanding of security protocols to ensure compliance with internal standards and regulatory requirements, and as needed, directs corrective mitigative actions to enhance security measures.

Requirements

Qualifications

You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement. Specialized experience for the GS-14 grade level is defined as one year of experience at the GS-13 grade level, or equivalent, which is directly related to the position and which has equipped the candidate with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience for this position is defined as experience in ALL of the following: Promoting compliance among government or private sector stakeholders with policies, regulations, or other measures; AND Serving as a subject matter expert or liaison with state, local, or federal agencies; AND Performing or overseeing inspections or audits involving regulatory compliance or security controls; OR Developing and implementing approaches for evaluating the effectiveness of compliance, security, or oversight programs. Specialized experience for the GS-13 grade level is defined as one year of experience at the GS-12 grade level, or equivalent, which is directly related to the position and which has equipped the candidate with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience for this position is defined as experience: Promoting compliance among government or private sector stakeholders with policies, regulations, or other measures; AND Serving as a subject matter expert or liaison with state, local, or federal agencies; OR Performing or overseeing inspections or audits involving regulatory compliance or security controls. Specialized experience for the GS-12 grade level is defined as one year of experience at the GS-11 grade level, or equivalent, which is directly related to the position and which has equipped the candidate with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience for this position is defined as: Assisting with promoting compliance among government or private sector stakeholders; OR Establishing relationships with state, local, or federal agencies; OR Assisting with performing audits or inspections. The experience may have been gained in either the public, private sector or volunteer service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/day/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week on your résumé.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address STRATEGIC OPERATIONS DIVISION Administrative Resource Center Parkersburg, WV 26101 US
• Name: Applicant Call Center
• Phone: 304-480-7300
• Email: [email protected]