Aminata Touré
Wells Fargo
WYOMISSING,PA
1
Language
8
years of professional experience
AML/KYC and Financial Crimes Specialist with 5+ years of banking experience across customer due diligence, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, fraud detection, SAR/CTR processes, remediation, and quality control. Advanced user of NICE Actimize, ActOne, AIS, Mantas, LexisNexis, and InstantID, with a record of improving investigation efficiency by 25-30% and maintaining 98% documentation accuracy.
Work History
Financial Crimes Specialist 2/AML (Analyst, Team Leader, and QC)
2 Years 9 Months- Review and verify customer documentation with a 98% accuracy rate while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and internal policies.
- Authenticate customer identities during onboarding using LexisNexis public and private records; screen individuals and business entities against terrorist lists, OFAC sanctions, and PEPs.
- Monitor account and wire activity through Mantas, flag suspicious behavior, identify emerging fraud typologies, and escalate critical risks to Compliance and management for regulatory reporting and ongoing monitoring.
- Used data analysis to identify 7 systemic control gaps, resulting in updated threshold rules that reduced false positives by 35%.
- Generate routine contextual data collection through NICE Actimize AIS, reducing manual investigation cycle times by 2530% per complex case.
- Streamline end-to-end generation, verification, and electronic filing of CTRs for aggregated cash transactions exceeding $10,000 while maintaining zero backlogs.
- Mentored seven analysts on complex EDD investigations, accelerating case closure rates by 25%.
- Performed QC checks on 300+ cases per month, identifying and resolving inconsistencies in financial reporting with a 40% error-reduction rate, ensuring all deliverables met regulatory and internal policy standards.
Operational Risk Analyst Associate 2/Financial Crimes Analyst
3 Years- Managed full client lifecycle, including customer onboarding, periodic-review documentation and remediations with 98% accuracy; completed CIP, CDD, beneficial-ownership, sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media checks using LexisNexis and escalated high-risk findings for enhanced due diligence and management.
- Investigated an active pipeline of 50+ monthly cases in ActOne, progressing suspicious activity from initial system alert through final management sign-off.
- Identified and investigated over 100 suspicious transaction patterns using advanced analytics, increasing SAR filing accuracy by 30%.
- Examine Actimize Suspicious Activity Monitoring alerts for potential layering, structuring, and high-velocity fund movements.
- Use ActOne for case management and AIS analytics to optimize detection models and minimize false positives; manage high-volume operations, CTR filings, and complex SAR drafting under regulatory deadlines.
- Analyze transactional data involving equities, bonds, options, futures, and margin trading to identify money-laundering red flags.
- Ensure compliance with AML typologies, industry trends, evolving regulations affecting brokerage accounts, and FINRA rules.
- Collaborate with Compliance and Operations to adjust Oracle Mantas threshold rules and behavioral scenarios, strengthen alert accuracy and detection rates, and escalate risks as needed.
- Monitor real-time sequences of fast-moving wire transfers and ACH batches
- Mentor new analysts on KYC procedures, compliance requirements, and remediations, contributing to a 20% increase in team productivity and efficiency.
- Perform QC checks to identify inconsistencies in financial reporting.
- Consistently exceed monthly quality-performance goals above 85% and production-performance goals up to 100%.
- Earn recognition as Top Achiever for first-quarter performance in 2023.
Financial Services Associate (Teller)
2 Years- Processed 150+ daily client transactions deposits, withdrawals, wire transfers, loan payments, and negotiable instruments with a branch-audited error rate below 0.5% per quarter / zero chargebacks in 12 consecutive months.
- Maintain accurate transaction records and ensure required documentation and paperwork are complete and compliant.
- Apply French-language skills to interpret for customers, reduce communication barriers, and strengthen customer-banking relationships.
- Resolve customer inquiries efficiently, improving client satisfaction scores by 15%.
- Promote bank products and services through referrals to appropriate business partners, exceeding quarterly sales goals by 10%.
- Assist with training new tellers on banking policies and procedures.
- Support supervisors and team members in daily branch operations.
- Consistently meet and exceed weekly and monthly sales targets.
- Received the 2021 Salesperson of the Year award based on a record-breaking 94% Net Promoter Score (NPS)reflecting top-ranked customer satisfaction.
- Earn promotion from part-time Teller to AML/KYC Analyst based on outstanding performance and customer satisfaction.
Education
Bachelors degree - Accounting, Economics
Skills
Tools: NICE Actimize
Actimize Suspicious Activity Monitoring
ActOne
AIS
LexisNexis
LexisNexis InstantID
Mantas
Oracle Mantas.
Financial Crimes & Compliance: AML investigations
KYC
BSA
FinCEN
OFAC
USA Patriot Act
fraud detection
risk assessment
customer due diligence
enhanced due diligence
transaction monitoring
sanctions screening
PEP screening
adverse-media screening
CTR filings
SAR drafting
QC
ACH
digital banking
wire transfers
Customer Identification Program.
Languages
French: Spoken and written
Timeline
Financial Crimes Specialist 2/AML (Analyst, Team Leader, and QC)
Wells Fargo
01.2024 - CurrentRead More
Operational Risk Analyst Associate 2/Financial Crimes Analyst
Citigroup Inc.
01.2021 - 01.2024Read More
Financial Services Associate (Teller)
Citigroup Inc.
01.2019 - 01.2021Read More
Baruch College, City University of New York, Zicklin School of Business
Bachelors degree from Accounting, Economics
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