Anti Money Laundering Compliance Specialist

**Anti Money Laundering Compliance Specialist (Officer II)**

Do you want to be part of a specialist team that can identify and put a stop money laundering, terrorist financing, and other fraudulent activities before it affects our customers? Do you want to unleash your potential in a global Fintech company? Are you interested in joining a globally diverse organization where our unique contributions are recognized and celebrated, allowing each of us to thrive? Then it’s time to join Western Union as a Anti Money Laundering Compliance Specialist.

**Western Union powers your pursuit.**

You’ll be part of a Compliance team. You are responsible for identifying any potential risks to Western Union and our customers by conducting research and analysis of complex for Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.

**Role Responsibilities**
- Support the team on reviewing and elaborating all type of regulatory reports. (Relevant and Unusual transactions reports, transactions, local AML updates etc).
- Manage effective action plans in response to audit discoveries and compliance violations.
- Ensure all employees are educated on the latest regulations and processes. As part of your role, you need to document and escalate specific cases to Western Union business partners.
- Assist in developing programs, polices & procedures for us to meet regulatory obligations and minimize loss
- Identify emerging typologies and determine appropriate strategy using applied knowledge and a wide range of investigative techniques.
- Provide regular reports to your managers, handling executive compliance escalations while completing day-to-day tasks, projects, and audit requests.
- We require you to work cross-functionally with teams within Western Union.
- Support the team in all regulatory activities to comply with local regulations and WU Global Compliance Program.
- As part of your role you will investigate unusual transactions analysis.

**Role Requirements**
- A minimum of 1 years’ experience in compliance with a focus on Anti Money Laundering from a banking, payments industry or multinational.
- You will need to be analytically minded as problem solving will be a regular part of the job.
- Communication is key as you will be interacting with customers and colleagues regularly and this should be a strength.
- Intermediate/advanced English level is required.
- Advanced Microsoft Office is required.
- You should have very good planning and organizational skills.
- Power BI knowledge is desirable.
- It’s a position of great learning and growth and offers the possibility of developing negotiation and interaction with different people.

**We make financial services accessible to humans everywhere. Join us for what’s next.**

Western Union is positioned to become the world’s most accessible financial services company —transforming lives and communities. We’re a diverse and passionate customer-centric team of over 8,000 employees serving 200 countries and territories, reaching customers and receivers around the globe. More than moving money, we design easy-to-use products and services for our digital and physical financial ecosystem that help our customers move forward.

**Benefits**

You will also have access to short-term incentives, multiple health insurance options, accident and life insurance, and access to best-in-class development platforms, to name a few

Your Argentina specific benefits include:

- Gift for marriage, birth, school aid, etc.
- Gifts on special dates (Christmas boxes, Easter eggs).
- Discount in universities.
- Discount in gyms and other retail sites.
- 10 days off for non-pregnant father/mother

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Estimated Job Posting End Date:
02-08-2025