Job opening: Enforcement Officer
Salary: $120 579 - 156 755 per year
Published at: Jan 07 2025
Employment Type: Full-time
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 and Compliance Division. As an Enforcement Officer, you will:
Maintain and manage a portfolio of civil law enforcement investigations of varying complexity into violations of the BSA committed by a range 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, virtual asset service providers, emerging financial technology companies, or non-bank financial institutions.
Serve as the primary investigator, or provide support to senior enforcement personnel, to advance and finalize all cases and assignments. Performs all major duties and demonstrates increased knowledge and proficiency.
Ensure assigned cases comply with applicable policies and procedures, contain thorough analysis, and adhere to regulatory guidance for findings, referrals, and closure.
Develop and utilize knowledge of FinCEN authorities and investigative techniques to collect information and documentation to identify and evaluate violations of 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, 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 daabases that may require a TS/SCI level.
Qualifications
You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
For the GS-13, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes:
Experience assisting senior team members with the assessment, implementation, or imposition of 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 financial crimes, including but not limited to similar laws and regulations such as laws involving white collar / financial crimes enforced by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), or related AML/CFT laws supervised by the Federal functional regulators: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), 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
Experience providing advice and guidance to stakeholders regarding BSA compliance, BSA enforcement, or white collar / financial crimes investigations; OR
Experience assisting senior team members with the building of or defending against administrative, civil, or criminal investigations involving white collar / financial crimes, 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 (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: ApplicantInquiries@fiscal.treasury.gov
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