Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Analyst

Position Summary

This position is responsible to partner with the Regulatory Compliance Manager to ensure the enterprise’s compliance with Title 31 and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) program through review and knowledge of regulations, assistance with audits, ensuring proper training and providing timely information to enterprise management.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Promotes and provides excellent guest service experience to both internal and external guests.
• Audit day-to-day documents generated from gaming and gaming support departments and ensure compliance with Title 31 review under the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).
• Update and maintain current Federal requirements of the Bank Secrecy Act's AML program and related training materials.
• Assist with committee meetings.
• Ensure Title 31 compliance is met in training materials, delivery, and testing.
• Work with the revenue audit manager and staff to address Title 31 concerns in a timely and accurate manner during paperwork reviews.
• Collect documentation and build and maintain case files for all potentially suspicious activity.
• Assist Regulatory Compliance Manager with casino AML compliance training program.
• Assist Regulatory Compliance Manager with all training materials required for AML compliance training.
• Stay current with money laundering and terrorist financing behaviors, issues, policies, regulations, criminal typologies, industry best practices, and developing trends by attending external training.
• Review Title 31 paperwork, Currency Transaction Reports by Casino (CTRC) and other reports to electronically file with the IRS in a accurately and timely manner.
• Monitor guest gaming activity to identify any observable or suspicious activity.
• Perform periodic risk assessments of identified risk indicators and assess the vulnerability of each indicator, individually for each casino.
• Investigate any SARC Suspicious activities by reviewing reports to determine if a filing is appropriate.
• Obtain proper information from departments when necessary.
• Prepare all CTRCs and SARCs to Regulatory Compliance Manager prior to filing.
• Maintain a dependable work attendance record with extremely infrequent absences and/or lateness.
• Perform other special projects and duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent required.
• Associate’s Degree preferred.
• Two (2) years of regulatory compliance experience required.
• Ability to perform the GILA WAY which includes: Greet our guest, Interact positively with our guest, Listen actively to our guest and Appreciate our guest.
• Excellent guest service skills, strong telephone etiquette, a self-starter with the ability to follow-up and complete tasks in a timely manner with minimum supervision.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both written and oral.
• An in-depth knowledge and thorough understanding of Enterprise Policies and Procedures, governmental regulations, and technical rules relevant to their responsibilities.