About this role

Job Title:
Financial Crimes Compliance (FCC) Internal Investigations Senior Manager

Location:
CityScape

What you'll do:
As an FCC Internal Investigations Senior Manager you will lead investigations of allegations involving employees, contractors, or other internal parties that may create material financial, legal, regulatory, information-security, safety, operational, or reputational risk. In this role you’ll also develop proactive monitoring methods to identify indicators of potential misconduct.

Investigations include allegations that may create financial, information-security, operational, or workplace-safety risk, including fraud or theft, misuse of confidential information or assets, unauthorized activity, record falsification or concealment, conflicts of interest or collusion, and threats or violence.

Under the Senior Director’s oversight, the Senior Manager will plan and execute investigations, collect and analyze evidence, conduct interviews, document findings, coordinate stakeholders, and escalate significant matters. This role will also support Physical Security investigations as needed.

This role partners with Human Resources, FCC AML, Legal, and Information Security/Digital Forensics to support investigations, while each function retains authority for decisions and activities within its area of responsibility.
- Manage investigative intake, triage, risk assessment, scoping, planning, and escalation of urgent safety, fraud, data, legal, regulatory, or retaliation allegations.
- Collect, preserve, organize, and evaluate relevant financial, documentary, electronic, physical-security, personnel, and public-record evidence with authorized partners.
- Maintain accurate, defensible case files, including evidence inventories, chain of custody, decisions, approvals, scope changes, limitations, and case-management entries.
- Plan and conduct fair, professional interviews; assess credibility and inconsistencies; and prepare accurate interview records.
- Analyze evidence objectively, determine whether allegations are supported, unsupported, or inconclusive, and identify related risks and control issues.
- Prepare concise investigative reports and present findings, limitations, recommendations, and significant developments to the Senior Director and authorized stakeholders.
- Coordinate with HR, Legal, Compliance/FCC AML, Information Security, Corporate Security, Audit, business leaders, and authorized external contacts while maintaining confidentiality, independence, and appropriate safeguards.

What you'll need:

- Bachelor’s degree in criminal justice, accounting, finance, business, cybersecurity, information systems, compliance, law, or a related field.
- Eight years of relevant investigative, fraud, corporate security, HR, compliance, audit, law-enforcement, intelligence, legal, or financial-services experience, including three years conducting complex internal or employee misconduct investigations.
- Financial-institution experience investigating internal fraud, theft, embezzlement, data misuse, unauthorized access, falsification, workplace violence, or similar serious allegations preferred.
- Advanced to expert knowledge of planning investigations, analyzing evidence, conducting sensitive interviews, resolving conflicting information, and preparing defensible reports.
- Advanced to expert knowledge of financial-institution operations, fraud risks, internal controls, or regulated investigative environments, with demonstrated judgment, integrity, objectivity, and discretion.
- Advanced to expert knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal compliance obligations, rules and regulations, industry standards and practices.
- Advanced to expert experience managing multiple and varied projects, including ability to coordinate and balance numerous tasks in a time-sensitive environment, under pressure, meeting deadlines while maintaining a big-picture perspective.
- Expert speaking and writing communication skills.
- Ability to synthesize complex matters, advise senior leaders, and drive alignment across cross-functional stakeholders.
- Experience with case management systems, e-discovery, DLP information, access logs, transaction analysis, digital evidence, or forensic partners preferred.

Benefits you’ll love:
We offer all the important things you'd want — like competitive salaries, an ownership stake in the company, medical and dental insurance, time off, a great 401k matching program, tuition assistance program, an employee volunteer program, and a wellness program. In addition, you’ll have the opportunity to bolster your business knowledge, learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and manage their finances, giving you invaluable hands-on experience to help grow your career!

About the company:

Western Alliance Bank, Member FDIC, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation. Serving clients nationwide, Western Alliance Bank includes six legacy bank brands — Alliance Association Bank, Alliance Bank of Arizona, Bank of Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank and Torrey Pines Bank — that remain part of the company’s heritage, as well as AmeriHome Mortgage, a Western Alliance Bank Company.

Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to equal employment and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, color, religion, age, nation origin, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetic information. Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process and/or need an alternative method of applying, please email [email protected] or call 602-386-2488. When contacting us, please provide your contact information and state the nature of your accessibility issue. We will only respond to inquiries concerning requests that involve a reasonable accommodation in the application process.