Bridger Insight
Jessica Craft
Naperville,IL
Summary
Highly experienced AML Professional with nearly 15 years of experience in financial crimes, compliance and risk possessing diverse skill sets. Skilled in identifying and mitigating financial crime risk, developing and implementing AML processes, and providing expert guidance to clients.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
KYC Case Lead - Private Bank
ITECH Solutions
12.2023 - Current
- Managed and motivated a team of 12 employees to be productive and engaged in work.
- Review data integrity for client due diligence, including coordinating the participation of customer stakeholders who have account opening responsibilities.
- Serve as control point for account opening approvals, reporting issues for designated clients.
- Maintaining a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail while meeting team productivity goals
- Act as a subject matter expert on required documents/information and process to onboard a client.
- Partnering with the client facing teams to review required legal documents and associated information to meet all regulatory and internal policies.
- Performing quality review of new and existing KYC profiles for Private Bank clients.
BSA/AML Investigator, Assoc II
Swoon
10.2021 - 03.2022
- Responsible for investigating suspicious activity alerts and cases for the purpose of identifying clients that pose greater than normal anti-money laundering risk to the Bank.
- Responsible for preparing and filing Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR) on behalf of the Bank by providing sound judgment and strong adherence to the procedures associated with producing and filing SARs.
Sr Reporting Analyst
Collabera Technical Staffing
10.2020 - 02.2021
- Improved data accuracy by streamlining reporting processes and implementing automated checks.
- Enhanced business decision-making with comprehensive financial reports and analyses.
- Developed custom dashboards to track key performance indicators, resulting in increased efficiency.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to gather data requirements and optimize reporting outputs.
Assistant Vice President
MUFG Bank
11.2018 - 05.2020
- Establish, design, and execute regulatory compliance testing.
- Work with the Line of Business as well as the Compliance Manager to ensure all rules applicable to the line of business and the products supported are identified so that testing priorities can be evaluated and established.
- Execute, organize, and prioritize testing in a timely manner ensuring deliverables are achieved while
maintaining accuracy. - Develop and document detailed testing scripts covering testing of controls evaluations and testing of
transactions to assess adherence to compliance rules. - Prepare testing scope, workpapers, and reports capturing results of testing.
- Work closely with the team to ensure consistency among execution of testing and interpretation of rules.
- Keep up to date on changes in federal and state compliance laws and regulations impacting the group of assigned compliance focus area(s) and ensure testing scripts reflect such changes.
- Assess adherence to regulatory requirements and laws. Serves as an independent reviewer to conduct transactional and control testing across the Global Financial Crimes Transaction Monitoring Systems.
- Prepare and potentially present reports to management regarding status of compliance testing in areas of
compliance focus. - Participate in various ad-hoc projects as assigned.
- Innovator in the utilization of Collibra and Metacenter to understand and document system architecture and data lineage.
Senior AML Analyst
BMO Harris Bank
05.2014 - 08.2017
- Pioneer in the transformation of disparate data into unique & powerful reporting visualizations (e.g. Geo-coding, heat maps, web-hosted dynamic dashboards) with the following BI tools to identify/resolve significant process gaps/risks: Spotfire, Tableau, & Power BI. Considered “SME” & designated trainer.
- Played a key role in generating urgent ad-hoc reporting requests for various levels of management & staff within required time frames via SAP Business Objects or Aginity against enterprise data warehouses.
- Collaborated with internal &/or external stakeholders to assess, select & recommend more complex solutions &/or alternative approaches that will achieve business goals.
- Produced several Excel dynamic dashboards with advanced formulas & functions.
- Created/enhanced/managed permissions for several Microsoft InfoPath forms & SharePoint Sites.
- Migrated/designed/created 2013 SharePoint sites for multiple departments/stakeholders from 2007, considered “SME” & designated SharePoint Site Owner & Admin.
- Designed & created Microsoft Access databases to streamline data management & automate reporting.
- Extracted untapped data from enterprise data warehouse by creating & running SQL queries via Agnity & SAP Business Objects.
- Prepared weekly, monthly & quarterly summary presentations via PowerPoint (includes senior leadership decks).
Senior Compliance Officer
JPMorgan Chase
01.2011 - 01.2014
- Investigated referrals obtained from sources such as banking centers, law enforcement agencies, government agencies and internal sectors by reviewing/analyzing transactional data for suspicious activity.
- Performed quality assurance second level reviews on Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs).
- Accountable for leading a new high-profile AML Data Mining project-evaluated various 3rd party software, made formal recommendation on purchase & responsible for system wide implementation on the i2 BI tool (i.e. integration, processes, & training).
- Produced numerous high-profile investigations using the link analysis software (i2 & Palantir) to provide complex relationship flows to AML upper management & Federal authorities, including the FBI.
- Created SQL queries via SAP Business Objects on "Special Person of Interest" requests for executive management.
- Responsible for creating &/or managing numerous dept process improvements & training.
- Developed process efficiencies utilizing various software including the Microsoft suite, created a production DB to track productivity, aging DB for comprehensive reporting, & produced key dept metrics.
- Assisted in Internal Audits & revisions of Internal Policy & Procedures as well as developed several internal investigator training documents.
- Consistently ranked "top performer" in dept. with high quality output - “SME.”
- Developed test scripts, performed testing, & implemented upgrades.
Compliance Officer
JPMorgan Chase
01.2006 - 01.2011
- Investigated account holder database for known or suspected money launderers, terrorists, and narcotic traffickers based on lists provided by the Office of Foreign Assets Control.
- Worked with internal/external lines of business on highly sensitive customer issues.
- Managed quality assurance program for the department.
- Managed case escalation process for Grand Jury Subpoenas and National Security Letters.
- Interfaced with Law Enforcement such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Drug Enforcement Administration on a variety of client issues.
- Investigated account holders for the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network regarding section 314(a) of the USA PATRIOT Act.
- Managed internal Service Level Agreement annual renewal process between AML Operations and all lines of business.
- Assisted in the revision of internal policy and procedures.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Information Systems
DePaul University
Chicago, ILSkills
- Anti-Money Laundering Regulations
- Regulatory Compliance
- Report Writing
- Sanctions Screening
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Risk Assessment
- Suspicious Activity Reporting
- Transaction Monitoring
- Know Your Customer
- Bank Secrecy Act
- AML Software Proficiency
- Enhanced Due Diligence
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Project Oversight
- Critical Thinking
- Customer Due Diligence
- Compliance Management
- Project Coordination
- Corporate Audits
- Compliance Review
- Business Intelligence And Analysis
- Validation Testing
- Metrics And Reporting
- Business Analytics
- Risk Assessments
- Gap Analysis
- Business Intelligence Tools
- Operating Procedures
- Compliance Training
- System Upgrades
- Process Streamlining
Software
Quality Center
SharePoint
Palantir
I2
Microsoft Office
Excel
Tableau
Business Objects
Metacenter
Collibra
Microsoft Access
Spotfire
Timeline
KYC Case Lead - Private Bank
ITECH Solutions
12.2023 - Current
BSA/AML Investigator, Assoc II
Swoon
10.2021 - 03.2022
Sr Reporting Analyst
Collabera Technical Staffing
10.2020 - 02.2021
Assistant Vice President
MUFG Bank
11.2018 - 05.2020
Senior AML Analyst
BMO Harris Bank
05.2014 - 08.2017
Senior Compliance Officer
JPMorgan Chase
01.2011 - 01.2014
Compliance Officer
JPMorgan Chase
01.2006 - 01.2011
Bachelor of Science - Computer Information Systems
DePaul University
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