Director of Financial Crimes Prevention

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Full-time ICP Support HONOLULU, HI, US

4 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

Position Function:

Provide enterprise-wide strategic leadership, governance, and oversight of the Bank’s Financial Crimes Program, integrating BSA/AML/OFAC compliance and Fraud Risk Management under a unified framework. Accountable for establishing and maintaining a risk‑based, well‑governed, and adequately resourced program that meets U.S. regulatory expectations, supports safe and sound operations, and protects customers and the Bank from financial loss, regulatory risk, and illicit activity. Serves as a principal advisor to executive management and the Board (or designated Board committee) on the Bank’s financial crimes risk profile, program performance, and emerging threats.

This senior leadership role is responsible for setting the vision, strategy, and governance structure for the Bank’s Financial Crimes Program. The Director ensures effective coordination across BSA/AML/OFAC and Fraud functions, defines enterprise standards and decision rights, and provides independent oversight and challenge to ensure programs remain risk‑based, compliant, and effective as the Bank’s size, complexity, and risk profile evolve.

Performs all duties and interacts with internal and external customers in a manner that is expressly aligned with the Company’s Core Values of approaching all actions with a “Voyaging Spirit” and being “Positively Ohana”. Exhibits core competencies that result in consistent delivery of positive Customer Interactions, Empowerment and Ownership and demonstrates key professional and performance skills such as Active Listening, effective Oral and Written Communication, Action and Solution Oriented and Thoroughness.

Primary Accountabilities:

• Establish and maintain a Bank-wide Financial Crimes Strategy, including a multi‑year roadmap covering AML/CFT, OFAC governance, fraud risk, identity theft controls, investigations, training, analytics, and enabling technology.
• Integrate financial crimes intelligence (typologies, alerts, case outcomes, losses) across AML and fraud to improve detection, prevention, and reporting effectiveness and reduce duplication.
• Define and maintain enterprise standards for financial crimes risk taxonomy, risk acceptance criteria, escalation thresholds, and decision rights.
• Develop and report enterprise KPIs/KRIs and program performance measures (e.g., alert and case timeliness, SAR/CTR quality, fraud losses and preventions, control exceptions, model/rule performance, and issue remediation status).
• Partner with business, operations, technology, legal, and risk leaders to embed financial crimes controls into products, channels, customer journeys, and third‑party arrangements.
• Lead Financial Crimes governance forums and ensure committee charters, agendas, minutes, and escalation protocols are documented and effective.
• Ensure clear three‑lines‑of‑defense role clarity and independence protections for compliance and investigative judgments, including SAR governance and escalation.
• Set expectations for strong talent management, succession planning, and specialized expertise across the financial crimes function (investigations, analytics, operations, quality assurance, training, and technology governance).
• Ensure program resources (staffing, technology, training, and vendor support) are commensurate with risk profile and strategic objectives.
• Direct enterprise financial crimes training strategy, including tiered and role‑based training for the Board, senior management, frontline staff, and investigators; measure and report training effectiveness.
• Serve as a senior point of contact for regulatory examinations and inquiries related to BSA/AML/OFAC and fraud risk management; coordinate narratives, documentation, and subject matter expert participation.
• Oversee timely and complete responses to examination and audit findings; ensure corrective action plans include root cause analysis, clear owners, target…