Wires Risk Management Analyst

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Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), the 5th largest financial group in the world. Across the globe, we're 180,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

With a vision to be the world's most trusted financial group, it's part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.

Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

This is a hybrid position. The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office an average of two to three days per week with the remainder worked remotely.

We're seeking an Analyst to process all payment instructions received from MUFG branches and customers and payment messages received via FEDWIRE, CHIPS, SWIFT, and proprietary interfaces. You will need to maintain familiarity with FED, SWIFT, CHIPS formatting standards OFAC, and related AML/BSA regulations.

Major Responsibilities:

Risk Management Processing

• Perform the daily review of compliance-related filtering functions for OFAC, JFEL, and other sanctions using our HotScan monitoring system.
• Stay informed on sanctions updates as they apply to our filtering needs.
• Identify and submit good guys on HOTSCAN false hits.

Payment Processing

• Enter payment processing data and transcribe customer instructions into corresponding system fields.
• Process CLS-related payments (ie: MT204, MT202 settlement payments).
• Ensure all customer information pertaining to the payment instructions is properly transcribed into corresponding system fields.
• Use research tools such as SWIFT BIC, FED directory, CHIPS NATS, McFadden directory, TGBR, etc., to locate, identify, and validate payment data to accurately execute payment instructions.
• Recommend credit processing rules/formatting changes to improve the STP process.

Quality Control Reporting

• Prepare the start-of-day and end-of shift reporting, including CLS settlement report, GPP payment volume activities, and HOTSCAN manual review activity.
• Process FED SERVICE messages using FED ADVANTAGE system.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years experience in money transfer processing
• Knowledge of CHIPS, FEDWIRE, and Swift rules and how to apply them to payment processing
• Ability to effectively time manage and prioritize assigned duties.
• General understanding of compliance matters as they apply to OFAC and BSA/AML, Travel Rule, etc.
• Training on payment formatting sponsored by CHIPS/FED/SWIFT, etc.
• High School diploma

The hours for this role are 10:00 pm - 7:00 am EST.

The typical base pay range for this role is between $56K-68K depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance, and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel so classified.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and committed to leveraging the diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experience of our workforce to create opportunities for our colleagues and our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender expression, gender identity, sex, age, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran and military status, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status of an individual or that individual's associates or relatives that is protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.

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