Financial Crimes Compliance Risk Specialist - USDS

Team Intro
USDS Financial Crimes Compliance is responsible for overseeing and operationalizing all aspects related to Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Sanctions Compliance activities related to TikTok USDS. Collaborating cross-functionally with stakeholders across the U.S. and globally, we address complex and cutting-edge challenges, which include the identification of money-laundering, terrorist financing and sanction violations. We seek a highly motivated, experienced, and dynamic professional to join our team.

In order to enhance collaboration and cross-functional partnerships, among other things, at this time, our organization follows a hybrid work schedule that requires employees to work in the office 3 days a week, or as directed by their manager/department. We regularly review our hybrid work model, and the specific requirements may change at any time.

Responsibilities:
- Complete the USDS Financial Crimes' annual AML and Sanctions Risk Assessments to help management understand USDS TikTok's key risks, control weakness, and trends to make informed and effective decisions;
- Manage and perform deep-dive investigations and exploratory data analysis to uncover emerging threats and anomalies, liaise with compliance, legal, and business teams to gather intelligence and ensure risk assessments are aligned with organizational priorities;
- Document the methodology for customer, geography, and product risk which address money laundering, sanctions and other financial crime risks associated with our products along with the scoring process/rationale of risk and control;
- Draft written reports that contain the gaps identified, enhancement opportunities, and recommendations from the risk assessment performed;
- Prepare the annual risk reporting for USDS Financial Crime Compliance lead;
- Work cross functionally with colleagues across financial crimes, compliance, engineering, product and regulatory legal;
- Conduct timely execution of periodic and/or event driven reviews using a risk-based approach to align with policy and regulatory requirements;
- Be expected to stay up-to-date with evolving financial crimes regulations, typologies, and industry best practices, and to contribute to the continuous improvement of the team's risk assessment frameworks and techniques.
- Perform special projects and additional duties and responsibilities as required.