Business Advisor Senior, AML

$81,770 - $156,290/Yr

USAA

Full-time - Mid Level

Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

About the position

The Business Advisor Senior at USAA plays a crucial role in developing and managing strategic initiatives and change management processes within Bank Financial Crimes. This position involves coordinating complex projects, identifying compliance and profit growth opportunities, and ensuring alignment with overall business strategies. The advisor will work closely with various stakeholders to enhance business processes, manage risks, and support operational reporting and training activities.

Responsibilities

• Identifies compliance and/or profit growth opportunities and provides guidance on procedure and process improvements to influence business optimization.
• Leads teams and owns project management action plans, business rules analysis and development, product development and service delivery.
• Collaborates with enterprise partners to facilitate the development of business rules, requirements and artifacts for business projects and initiatives, and responsible for required documentation of business decisions.
• Responsible for monitoring risks within the internal control environment and advising on and recommending risk mitigation actions by collaborating with Compliance, Legal, Operational Risk Management, and Business Experience Owners.
• Coordinates training, communications and related activities for new processes, product updates etc. where changes may be more complex and/or may have cross-functional impact.
• May conduct root cause diagnostics of key processes, controls, regulatory requirements to identify and document these issues.
• Monitors, develop and communicate audit testing, control testing and examination requests.
• Assists with development and management of operational reporting and provides trend analyses and solutions.
• Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree OR 4 years of related experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.
• 6 years of project management, process consulting, or business optimization planning experience within the financial services industry.
• Advanced knowledge of relevant industry technology applications, such as Salesforce, SharePoint, Portal, CRM, CBS, Fiserve, KDIM, Fideility, Metric Stream or other industry related applications.
• Experience developing solutions and recommendations that will increase efficiency and improve business decisions, including managing performance and profitability, in adherence to risk and compliance guidelines.
• Knowledgeable in the applications of Agile process and procedures.
• Knowledge and application of risk management frameworks and regulatory requirements for applicable LOB.
• Demonstrated experience in developing communications and delivering key information effectively to stakeholders and all levels of management to influence decisions centered around business optimization.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in Anti-Money Laundering/Sanctions, Fraud Management, and/or Claims/Disputes Handling.
• Influence at all levels, cross-functional team collaboration and development of business requirements and solutions.
• Experience with establishing and driving business strategies and efficiencies.
• US military experience through military service or a military spouse/domestic partner.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans
• 401(k)
• Pension
• Life insurance
• Parental benefits
• Adoption assistance
• Paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours
• Various wellness programs
• Career path planning and continuing education assistance