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Chyenne Bouknight

Charlotte,NC

Summary

Highly trained individual boasting a career involved in Financial Crimes Investigations. Driven Fraud/AML Investigator proudly offering over 6 years experience in data analysis and fraudulent pattern identification. A determined professional known for reviewing and identifying suspicious activity. Offering a relentless commitment to finding solutions to problems and the ability to meet tight deadlines.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Financial Crimes Associate; Investigations

Wells Fargo
Charlotte, NC
05.2022 - Current
  • Provide litigation support, under guidance by more experienced colleagues, by providing support documentation, testimony and evaluating cases for potential risk
  • Investigate, negotiate and mitigate potential or known moderate dollar loss or risk claims with customer suspects
  • Examine evidence and work with more difficult customers or collect losses from responsible party
  • Research and scrutinize complex transactions and referrals to prevent and detect financial crimes activities, policy violations and suspicious situations with low to moderate risk
  • Perform analysis to detect patterns, trends, anomalies and schemes in transactions and relationships across multiple businesses or products
  • Draft report of findings and trend evaluation and make recommendations to mitigate risk
  • Provide information to managers, functional colleagues and stakeholders (Conduct education for financial crimes awareness)

Fraud & Claims Ops Specialist 4 (12/2018-05/2022)

  • Provides work direction to and/or manager daily workflow activities for operations team including staffing, production, and workflow and acts as an escalation point for junior level team members in more complex situations.
  • Identifies patterns, anomalies and trends and may analyze findings to determine extent of suspicious or unusual activity and level of risk. Recommends procedural changes to prevent/mitigate future losses.
  • Assessed and trained personnel for promotion to cross-functional operations.
  • Coached individuals including newly hired top talent on company policies, procedures, and best practices to enhance operational efficiency, and employee productivity.
  • Tracked participant attendance, contributions and progress according to objectives.
  • Produces reporting, such as volume or closed claims for management. Identifies control deficiencies in bank processes, procedures, customer or team member decisions and assigns loss accountability.
  • Analyzes, reviews and researches more complex transactions and claims using multiple online systems and research/testing techniques to identify financial crimes activities, policy violations and/or suspicious situations to mitigate and/or recover losses Documents research findings and actions on cases for possible referrals for Suspicious Activity, Identity Theft Operations (ITO) and Suspected Financial Abuse.

Financial Crimes Specialist 3 (9/2018-12/2018)

  • Monitors moderate to complex account activity and claims requiring research that may involve multiple transaction channels and products.
  • Identifies control failures in bank processes, procedures, and customer or team member decisions and then categorize losses and assign loss accountability.
  • Reviews, verifies and/or identifies customer transactions to detect/prevent financial crimes activities, policy violations and suspicious situations in order to mitigate and/or recover losses.
  • Uses a variety of sources for information, including multiple online systems and more complex tools/models.
  • Document research findings and actions on cases for possible referrals for Suspicious Activity, Identity Theft Operations (ITO) and Suspected Financial Abuse.

Financial Crimes Specialist 2 (01/2017-09/2018)

  • Performs general account handling functions such as close account determination, holds, restraints, etc.
  • Contact customers and/or vendors to validate transactions.
  • Maintain files, records, databases and prepare standard/routine management reports. Prepares required documentation including Suspicious Activity Reports.
  • Document research findings and actions on cases for possible referrals for Suspicious Activity.
  • Reviews more complex/unique situations with senior department staff and participates in projects.

Data Coordinator II

State Law Enforcement Division
Columbia, SC
09.2013 - 08.2016
  • Running background checks from state and federal sources, reviewing backgrounds from South Carolina and other states, and also approving and denying applicants.
  • Review and enter concealed weapon permit applications.
  • Assists momentarily with printing concealed weapon permit cards and making sure they are mailed out to the correct addresses in the DMV systems.
  • Providing customer service and assisting with questions in regards to concealed weapons permits (CWP) applicants including certain days covering switchboard emergency calls up as well as expecting payments for concealed weapons applicants to (150+) a day.

Administrative Assistant II (06/2011 -09/2013)

  • Answers phone calls in reference to expungement orders that need to be processed.
  • Processed ad corrects information sent from the FBI by fax or mail in AVIS and insures all information for the person is correct in CCH.
  • Answers phone calls in reference to expungement orders that need to be processed.
  • Produce and update reports, utilize computer programs relevant to case management.

Customer Service Supervisor

Teleperformance USA
Columbia, SC
09.2010 - 10.2012
  • Set clear expectations and helped employees pursue optimal paths for achieving each target.
  • Assisted staff with resolving complex customer issues and implementing targeted solutions.
  • Negotiated terms of contracts, inquires, closed accounts, sales, taking payments and resolve customer complaints and escalation calls.
  • Perform team meetings with statistical reports in reference to the team’s progress and what needs to be worked on. Also taking escalating calls with irate customer’s issues.

Education

High School Diploma -

Irmo High School
Columbia, SC
06.2010

Skills

  • Anti-Money Laundering (AML)
  • Financial Crimes
  • Fraud and anomaly analysis
  • Leadership
  • Process Improvement
  • Risk mitigation
  • Analytical
  • Collaboration
  • Records Management
  • Customer-focused
  • Risk Management

Additional Skills

  • Fraud, Anti-Money Laundering (AML), and/or Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) experience (LexisNexis, Actimize)
  • Experience conducting financial crimes investigations, writing SAR, and alert/case narratives summarizing the results of investigations and selecting requisite supporting documentation for either AML or Fraud cases.
  • Proficient in SVP, CIV, PREVENT, CCM, HOGAN, DAT, VISA, PVSI, CLAIMS and ONLINE WIRES. (And other Wells Fargo systems)
  • Strong leadership and interpersonal skills with the ability to easily adapt to change.
  • Ability to execute in a fast paced, high demand, environment while balancing multiple priorities.
  • Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
  • Ability to prioritize work, meet deadlines, achieve goals, and work under pressure in a dynamic and complex environment.
  • Advanced Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint) skills
  • Ability to take an active role in the education, mentoring and training of less experienced team members.

Timeline

Financial Crimes Associate; Investigations

Wells Fargo
05.2022 - Current

Data Coordinator II

State Law Enforcement Division
09.2013 - 08.2016

Customer Service Supervisor

Teleperformance USA
09.2010 - 10.2012

High School Diploma -

Irmo High School