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

This position is located in our Enforcement & Compliance Division. As a/an Senior Enforcement Officer, you will: Maintains and manages a portfolio of complex civil law enforcement investigations into violations of the BSA committed by a wide variety of financial institutions and non-financial trades or businesses. Such entities may include banks, broker dealers in securities, casinos and card clubs, credit card companies, dealers in precious metals, stones, or jewels, depository institutions, futures commission merchants, insurance companies, investment advisors, money services businesses, or non-bank financial institutions. Serves as the primary investigator or team lead, or provides support to junior enforcement personnel, to advance and finalize all cases and assignments. Performs all major duties with minimal to no supervision required. Ensures assigned cases comply with applicable policies and procedures, contain thorough analysis, and adhere to regulatory guidance for findings, referrals, and closure. Utilizes expert knowledge of FinCEN authorities and investigative techniques to collect information and documentation to assess instances of non-compliance with the BSA. Such sources of information and expertise include but are not limited to the BSA database, data from ongoing enforcement investigations, interviews, media reports, referrals from other FinCEN components, financial regulators, or law enforcement agencies, reports of examination prepared by federal or state financial regulators, requests for information, summonses, and other proprietary or publicly available tools or databases. Serves as the technical expert on the interpretation of the BSA and FinCEN's regulations. Applies laws, theories, concepts, and principles, including program or bureau rules, regulations, advisory opinions, exemptions, court decisions, and agency enforcement and regulatory policies and procedures, as well as investigative principles, methods, and techniques, in order to plan, conduct, and finalize impactful and precedent-setting enforcement actions.

Requirements

Qualifications

You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For the GS-14, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-13 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: Assessing, implementing, or imposing Anti-Money Laundering/Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) compliance programs (also commonly referred to as Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) compliance programs), Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) filing obligations, or other laws and regulations involving financial crimes, including but not limited to similar laws and regulations such as laws involving white collar/financial violations enforced by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) or the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), or related AML/CFT laws supervised by the Federal functional regulators and self-regulatory organizations: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the National Futures Association (NFA), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), National Credit Union Association (NCUA), U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), or Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC); OR Providing advice and guidance to stakeholders regarding BSA compliance, BSA enforcement, or white collar/financial/emerging technology violations investigations, including but not limited to banks and depository institutions, virtual asset service providers (including blockchain analytics and distributed ledger technology), money service businesses, broker-dealers and issuers of securities, and/or other non-bank financial institutions; OR Building or defending against administrative, civil, or criminal investigations involving white collar/financial violations, including but not limited to: obtaining and analyzing evidence, conducting witness interviews/depositions, applying legal factors to evidence, drafting memoranda summarizing investigations; drafting public-facing legal documents; negotiating with government attorneys/lawyers or defense counsel, or coordinating parallel investigations with law enforcement (e.g., DOJ) or other regulatory agencies. 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 ENFORCEMENT AND COMPLIANCE DIVISION Administrative Resource Center Parkersburg, WV 26101 US
• Name: Applicant Call Center
• Phone: 304-480-7300
• Email: [email protected]