Adverse Media Screening Analyst (Financial Crimes Analyst) / Charlotte / Des Moines

About the job

Join a leading financial services company as an Financial Crimes Screening Analyst supporting adverse media and negative news screening in Charlotte, NC or Des Moines, IA. This 6-month contract focuses on due diligence and financial crimes risk identification.

This is an opportunity for an investigative professional who is comfortable working through ambiguity and making well-supported risk assessments. You will evaluate adverse media involving new and existing clients, research and validate information, document clear rationales, and help determine whether negative news represents a material financial crimes risk.

Contract Duration: 6 months, with possible extension

Required Skills & Experience

• 2+ years of name screening experience related to financial crimes, regulatory matters, or risk identification.
• Proven ability to read and interpret adverse media and identify the subject matter, alerting party, and the alerting party’s role in an article.
• Research and investigative due diligence experience, including validating article details and identifying missing data attributes.
• Ability to document screening rationale clearly and concisely.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word products.
• Quality control awareness.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Financial crimes knowledge.
• Regulatory knowledge.
• Materiality and risk assessment experience, with the critical-thinking ability to distinguish adverse news from material news.
• Strong analytical writing skills, including the ability to distinguish what a source reports, what research establishes, and how the evidence supports a disposition.
• Workflow management and assignment distribution experience.
• Adverse media or negative news name-screening experience.
• Financial crimes risk management experience such as background investigations or due diligence.
• Legal or financial crimes experience that supports interpretation of nuanced news content.

What You Will Be Doing

• Review and assess adverse media involving new and existing clients and determine whether identified information presents a material financial crimes risk.
• Execute due diligence screening accurately within established time frames.
• Exercise independent judgment when handling medium-risk screening deliverables.
• Research and validate adverse-media information and escalate results when appropriate.
• Support screening operations, including workflow management, business continuity, data gathering, and analysis.
• Apply knowledge of screening functions, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements to process walkthroughs, procedure reviews, testing engagements, and transformation activities.
• Collaborate with peers, managers, and internal and external customers to resolve screening and production issues.
• Analyze screening processes and controls to identify improvement opportunities.
• Participate in screening process improvement initiatives and focus groups.
• Support senior consultants with training facilitation, quality reviews, and post-training support for new screening consultants.
• Aggregate, evaluate, and report screening results and escalate issues when necessary.