Credit Risk Officer jobs in Ann Arbor, MI

Do you experience with Risk and Compliance in a financial setting? Are you organized and can you multi-task? Do you have experience with Risk Mitigation?  We invite you to consider a career at American 1 Credit Union!   Read on for more information!

• Location: Jackson, Michigan
• Position: Risk Management Specialist
• Wage: Competitive wage starting at $21.00//hour.
• Benefits start on day one:  Health, Dental, Vision, Responsible Time Off
• All offers of employment are contingent upon background screens.

The Risk Specialist I supports the credit union by administrating the Bank Secrecy Act, the disaster recovery program, record retention, and fraud monitoring.    This position ensures the credit union is in compliance with all policies and procedures, federal and state laws, rules, and regulations, and assists with administering assigned areas of risk, compliance, and fraud. The Risk Specialist I provides exceptional member service, both internal and external, and works within the team to support branch operations teams.

Essential Job Functions:

• Focus on Purpose: Ensures compliance with BSA/AML regulations through monitoring and reporting.  
• Engaged and Collaborative:  Works with Risk Manager and all other areas of the credit union to ensure compliance with regulations.
• Branch Support Member Outreach:  Ensures compliance with all rules and regulations working with branch operations, support teams, and members.
• Document Compliance Reviews:  Assists branch operations in reviewing member documentation to ensure compliance with regulatory and policy requirements.  
• BSA Compliance Monitoring and Reporting:  Adheres to regulations, including the Bank Secrecy Act. 
• Accountability: Adheres to policies, rules, and regulations and submits reports within regulatory timeframes. Monitors, reports, and analyzes fraud trends and reports them to the Risk Manager.
• Trustworthy: Maintains confidentiality and integrity of all member accounts and confidentiality with employees. Follow all credit union policies and procedures, including policies and procedures for customer identification and all BSA requirements.
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Committed to building and supporting an inclusive culture for all. 

Competencies Required:

• People-focused and Strong Communication: Empathetically seek understanding of what members and employees require, expect, and use available resources, policies, and opportunities in their best interest without compromising institutional core values and core focus.
• Achiever, Initiative, and Goal Driven:  The employee drives for results and success, is committed to their job, sets high-performance standards, pursues aggressive goals, works hard to achieve them, displays a high level of effort and commitment to work, and takes ownership. Apply new ways of thinking; create new ideas. Plans work and carry out tasks without detailed instructions; makes constructive suggestions; prepares for problems or opportunities in advance; undertakes additional responsibilities; responds to situations as they arise with minimal supervision; creates novel solutions to problems. Pays special attention to close detail and is committed to accuracy. 
• Focused, Decision Making and Problem-Solving: Has a strong sense of urgency about proactively solving problems and getting work done; gains support by collaborating effectively for ideas, proposals, projects, and solutions, takes initiative; makes and/or facilitates decisions considering impact on others and/or the credit union; reach sound decisions and exercises good judgment based on balanced consideration of facts, priorities, and alternatives; make decisions in agreed upon time frame; take initiative to identify and resolve problems; demonstrate ability to examine existing problems/issues in new ways.
• Engaged and Collaborative: The employee will work with others to achieve common organizational goals in a spirit of honoring diversity and mutual respect. Effectively communicates by actively listening and sharing relevant information with co-workers, supervisor(s), and members so as to anticipate problems and ensure the effectiveness of the institution.
• Trustworthy, Reliability, and Confidentiality: Personally responsible; completes work in a timely, consistent manner; works hours necessary to complete assigned work; is regularly present and punctual; arrives prepared for work; is committed to doing the best job possible; keeps commitments. Able to keep all information obtained confidential, including member, employee, and credit union information. Ensures core processes, policies, and procedures are followed.

Key Accountabilities:

• BSA compliance monitoring and reporting
• Fraud review and processing
• Branch support/member outreach
• Document compliance reviews

Requirements:

• Equivalent to a high school degree 
• 6 months to 2 years of similar or related experience 
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint applications
• Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills

The Ideal Candidate:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Working knowledge of PC applications such as Microsoft Office
• Ability to work independently or as a member of a team.
• Ability to identify weaknesses in the auditing program and address them with management to ensure maximum efficiency.
• Knowledge of credit union products, services, policies, regulations, and procedures
• Ability to express oneself clearly and articulately both orally and in writing.
• Ability to make decisions and take initiative in problem resolution.
• Ability to exercise tact and responsibility with handling confidential information.
• Ability to adapt and change processes/procedures when needed to ensure efficiency.

NOTE:  The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.