# Director - Special Investigations (FIU) **Company**: SoFi **Location**: United States **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: The base pay range for this role is listed below. Final base pay offer will be determined based on individual factors such as the candidate’s experience, skills, and location. **Category**: Finance **Industry**: Finance **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sofi/jobs/8008774003?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_36b479b4-f16 ## Description Shape a brighter financial future with SoFi. The Director ,Special Investigations (Financial Investigations Unit) will lead the prioritization and execution of proactive, complex, and high-risk AML investigations across the SoFi enterprise. Responsibilities: - Lead and execute proactive AML investigations involving complex typologies, high-risk customers, emerging threats, and material exposure to the enterprise. - Manage the Special Investigations pipeline, including intake, triage, prioritization, assignment, escalation, and timely resolution of matters requiring enhanced investigative expertise. - Conduct end-to-end investigations using internal and external data sources; document findings, develop clear narratives, and determine appropriate disposition, escalation, and reporting actions. - Identify suspicious activity, emerging typologies, control gaps, and systemic trends; provide actionable recommendations to strengthen detection, investigation, and risk-mitigation capabilities. - Partner closely with the Financial Investigations Unit, Customer Intelligence Unit, Sanctions, Cryptocurrency, AML Advisory, Legal, Risk, Product, Data, and Engineering teams to investigate complex issues and drive resolution. - Serve as a subject-matter expert for complex AML investigations, including cases involving layered transactions, potentially related accounts, adverse media, high-risk geographies, beneficial ownership, and other elevated-risk activity. - Support the preparation, quality review, and escalation of Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs), regulatory inquiries, law-enforcement requests, and other investigative deliverables, as applicable. - Develop and maintain investigative procedures, playbooks, and quality standards for proactive and special investigations, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements, internal policies, and industry best practices. - Monitor developments in financial-crime typologies, regulatory expectations, and industry practices to ensure the Special Investigations program remains responsive to evolving risks. - Support regulatory examinations, internal audits, testing activities, and management reporting by providing clear documentation of investigative methodologies, outcomes, trends, and remediation efforts. Requirements: - Bachelor’s Degree from a four-year college or university in a related field. - 10-15+ years of experience in AML with a focus on retail banking and recent experience controls/processes or AML third-party risk management controls. - Comprehensive understanding of CPS/BaaS products including payments processing, card issuance, credit and lending and other traditional retail banking services. - Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization and across different business lines. - Demonstrate strong leadership and management skills that build solid working relationships within the organization. - Excellent working knowledge of BSA/AML laws and regulations within various international jurisdictions. - Experience in providing anti-money laundering guidance/advice to Compliance, Business and Engineering leaders. - Excellent organizational, verbal, written and interpersonal skills are required. - Must be able to multitask, adapt well to changing priorities, and effectively prioritize responsibilities to meet critical deadlines. - Ability to work in a fast-paced, demanding, and changing environment; must work well under pressure. - Excellent analytical skills required. - Ability to work collaboratively and independently while managing projects and assignments. Nice to have: - CAMS/CFE certification ## Skills ### Required - AML - BSA/AML laws and regulations - CPS/BaaS products - leadership - management - analytical skills - communication skills ### Nice to have - CAMS/CFE certification --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sofi/jobs/8008774003?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)