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MARCI JESSIE

Hampton,,GA

Summary

Compliance and Operational Risk Consultant with 15+ years of experience in Financial Crimes, Quality Assurance, Risk Compliance, AML/BSA, and Enterprise banking operations. Demonstrated success in leading complex regulatory projects, effectively mitigating risk, and optimizing operational workflows. Expertise in navigating high-stakes financial environments, ensuring audit readiness, and interpreting legal documents. Proven leadership skills in managing teams to achieve compliance and operational excellence.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Business Accountability Specialist, SVP

WELLS FARGO
01.2024 - 05.2026
  • Led quality assurance reviews for three assigned financial crimes programs, processing over 100 investigations monthly, validating case accuracy and completeness.
  • Provided QA oversight and compliance reviews for enterprise financial crimes programs, ensuring adherence to BSA/AML regulatory standards.
  • Reviewed financial files for regulatory compliance, identifying QA exceptions and confirming remediation with analysts and team leads.
  • Delivered feedback to analysts on QA findings, coaching on documentation standards to ensure adherence to regulatory requirements.
  • Analyzed transactional activity across 10+ enterprise financial crimes programs to assess support for investigations and case decisions.
  • Coordinated with teams to streamline operational processes, enhancing compliance and workflow effectiveness.
  • Developed executive dashboards and QA/risk reports, offering management visibility into case quality trends and emerging risks.
  • Conducted risk assessments for new initiatives involving technology changes, testing adherence to program policies before implementation.
  • Collaborated with audit teams on regulatory responses and risk management documentation.

Business Accountability Specialist, AVP

WELLS FARGO
10.2022 - 01.2024

• Led and participated in initiatives and deliverables to mitigate current and emerging business risk issues within cross-functional planning efforts.
• Assessed and analyzed data trends to identify opportunities for service enhancements within programs. Designed moderately complex controls, protocols, and approaches with respect to risk mitigation and the control environment, including ensuring effective planning for sustainability, ongoing control adherence, reporting, measurement, technology impacts, and monitoring.
• Independently made decisions and resolved moderately complex issues while leveraging a solid understanding of the business's functional areas or products, operations, and regulatory environment.

• Partnered with peers and business in interactions with external parties to
support appropriateness and timeliness of response, and effectiveness of
communications.
• Mentored junior staff by providing guidance and support in their professional development.

Business Execution Consultant, AVP / Business Risk & Control Associate

WELLS FARGO
04.2019 - 10.2022
  • Advanced through enterprise Financial Crimes and quality assurance roles, enhancing support for AML investigations, case reviews, and control effectiveness.
  • Performed 250+ quality assurance and risk assessments monthly, validating investigation case accuracy, red flag analysis, and control effectiveness across AML processes.
  • Presented QA results and emerging typology trends to senior leadership, informing mitigation action plans and governance decisions.
  • Evaluated investigation and testing methodologies, recommending process improvements that strengthened quality and regulatory compliance.
  • Acted as subject matter expert for complex investigations, driving change initiatives and facilitating cross-functional QA efforts.

Financial Crimes Consultant III, AVP

WELLS FARGO
02.2014 - 04.2019
  • Conducted 1,500+ financial crimes/AML investigations and audited 500+ customer accounts quarterly, ensuring compliance with BSA/AML policy through detailed analysis of transactional activity.
  • Maintained investigation and QA error rates below 2% while providing front-line risk assessment and case review oversight for eight business lines.
  • Advised 50+ agents on AML and regulatory requirements, enhancing adherence to BSA/AML and organizational policy.
  • Generated $1.2M+ annually through fraud detection and recovery, strengthening fraud detection and recovery practices.
  • Organized company files using a document management system, ensuring data remained current and easily accessible.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Criminal Justice

Saint Leo University
Saint Leo, FL

Skills

  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Quality Assurance
  • Risk Control Self-Assessment
  • Quality management
  • Risk Management
  • Document management
  • Policy development
  • Policy compliance
  • Data analysis
  • Transaction oversight
  • Operational management
  • Internal audit controls
  • Change implementation
  • Project management
  • Analytical Skills

Technical Skills

  • Risk & Financial Crimes Platforms: Actimize, Falcon, Accurint, Alacra, CAAPS, CRAS, CRMS, Emerald, Hogan, ECM, ICMP, Shared Risk Platform (SHRP),Hogan, OIB, BLAST, ServiceView
    • Reporting & Analytics: Tableau, Power BI, Microsoft Office Suite, SharePoint, JIRA
    • Research & Investigation: Westlaw, Goldmine, LexisNexis, SEWA- Streamline Elastic Workflow Assistant, OneView

Timeline

Senior Business Accountability Specialist, SVP

WELLS FARGO
01.2024 - 05.2026

Business Accountability Specialist, AVP

WELLS FARGO
10.2022 - 01.2024

Business Execution Consultant, AVP / Business Risk & Control Associate

WELLS FARGO
04.2019 - 10.2022

Financial Crimes Consultant III, AVP

WELLS FARGO
02.2014 - 04.2019

Bachelor of Arts - Criminal Justice

Saint Leo University
MARCI JESSIE