Financial Crime Compliance Specialist

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Role/Responsibilities
- The Financial Crime Compliance Specialist is responsible for advising existing and prospective customers across corporations, governments, and advisory firms on critical financial crime third-party compliance and regulatory best practices. The Financial Crime Compliance Specialist will work with relationship managers and AML / KYC domain specialists to address customers’ use cases and facilitate solution architecture leveraging Moody’s Analytics compliance solution suite. Specifically, there are four areas of activities the Compliance Specialist will be engaged in:

- Driving sales and customer engagement: design market outreach strategy (with sales, marketing and product management teams); serve as a trusted advisor to customers; proactively work with prospective clients through the sales process, providing technical assistance and guidance as required; respond to functional and technical queries of RFIs and RFPs; qualify and lead the Proof of Concept (POC) process in the sales cycle.
- Industry engagement & thought leadership: develop and maintain industry stakeholder relationships; speak at industry events; publish thought leadership; maintain social media engagement.
- Market feedback for product development: translate emerging market themes and regulatory requirements into product requirements to future proof our solutions; identify valuable white space; build business case for product development and improvement.
- Internal education: conduct training sessions on customer use cases, our solution set and emerging trends; serve as an informal coach and expert to product consultants, sales professionals and customer success teams.

**Qualifications**:

- Extensive knowledge of Third-Party Due Diligence, KYC, AML, FCPA, Sanctions etc. regulations with a good sense of best practices across industries
- Currently a holder of or working towards ICA, ACAMS or ACFCS certification
- 10+ years of experience in consulting or data/solutions sales within the compliance space OR working at a corporation or other organization in a role responsible for complying with AML / financial crime regulation
- Demonstrated ability to interact with Senior level stakeholders
- Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills.
- Bachelor’s degree required, graduate degree preferred
- Up to 30% travel required
- Must be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 (i.e., at least 2 weeks after last dose) and, if hired, present proof of vaccination on start date, as determined by Moody’s.For San Francisco positions, qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

This position may be considered a promotional opportunity, pursuant to the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act.

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- For Colorado-based roles only: the anticipated base salary range for this position is $109,200 to $158,250, depending on factors such as experience, education, level, skills, and location. This range is based on a full-time position. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for commission-based compensation. Moody’s also offers a competitive benefits package, including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, parental leave, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities, life, disability, and accident insurance, a discounted employee stock purchase plan, and tuition reimbursement.