The Financial Crimes Operations team (FCO) coordinates day-to-day implementation of the banks enterprise wide financial crime prevention efforts. FCO includes several legal and compliance disciplines and has responsibility for governance, oversight and execution of Rockland Trust's Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Economic Sanctions, and Fraud prevention programs. Our program is designed to ensure protection of our customers, the U. S. financial system, and our country from illicit actors who exploit banking services with nefarious and criminal intent. The FCO protects our customers and Bank from losses. FCO also develops and/or assists in the development of appropriate policies and procedures, including those designated to assist the business units to know their customers and conduct appropriate due diligence and to prevent, detect and report potentially suspicious activity.
The Financial Crimes Investigator will be responsible for reviewing system generated alerts and business unit referrals to detect activity indicative of money laundering and other Financial Crimes. Develops and maintains best practices to guard against and reduce financial fraud and related Financial Crimes against the Bank, its customers, and its staff. Including reviewing system generated fraud alerts including check kiting, counterfeit and forged checks, scam related fraud, ACH fraud, wire and debit card fraud. Activity that warrants further investigation will be sent to case to document the decision and due diligence in this stage. If the situation is indicative of money laundering and/or other Financial Crimes the investigator will prepare the Suspicious Activity Report for filing.