Wesley Jordan
Charlotte
Summary
Analytical and technically driven professional with extensive experience in due diligence consulting, financial crimes, and anti-money laundering (AML). Seeking a new opportunity to leverage and expand my expertise in a collaborative and diverse team environment. Skilled in case investigation, compliance, and risk management with strong leadership and communication abilities.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Due Diligence Consultant
Wells Fargo (Contract)
Charlotte
01.2025 - Current
- Conduct enhanced due diligence, analyze high risk behavior and attributes, investigate negative news, and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
- Prepared detailed customer risk summaries by analyzing client profile, transactional behavior, geographic exposure, and risk factors.
- Monitored and reviewed client transactions to detect suspicious activity and escalate concerns in line with AML regulations.
- Utilized internal systems and external systems for screening and adverse media checks.
- Analyzed client documentation such as corporate structure, beneficial owners, and source of funds/wealth
Financial Crimes Specialist
Wells Fargo (Contract)
Charlotte
07.2024 - 01.2025
- Reviewed 3-5 daily cases to identify, analyze, and appropriately escalate financial crimes risk-related issues.
- Performed detailed transactional review and open source searches to find any trends, anomalies, or negative news regarding the case and customer.
- Drafted case summaries detailing the customer’s activity and explained whether to escalate or mitigate the case based on risk factors.
- Prepared Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) narratives, summarizing red flags, suspicious activity, and adverse information.
- Stayed up to date on AML procedures and regulations to us best practices on reporting customer’s activity
- Used excel to analyze the customer’s transactional history for any out of pattern transactions that may cost risk to the bank
Financial Crimes Specialist
Protiviti
Charlotte
02.2024 - 07.2024
- Review and close 8 to 10 daily cases
- Escalate financial crimes related compliance and operational risks and issues to appropriate governance routines.
- Conduct historical transactional reviews, conduct case investigations, mitigate and provide case narrative and supportive documentation.
Financial Crimes Specialist
Varo Bank
Charlotte
01.2022 - 02.2024
- Review 70 to 100 monthly alerts, conduct historical transactional reviews, conduct case investigations, mitigate and recommend suspicious activity determinations.
- Prepare case and SAR narratives, summarizing red flags, suspicious activity, and adverse information
- Conduct 90 day reviews on previous SAR(s)
- Gather feedback and recommendations and translate into business requirements, to improve Varo's AML program effectiveness
- Used pivot tables in excel to analyze the customer’s transactional patterns
- Providing reports to managers of any new AML patterns
- Collaborate with team about new AML trends and best practices to use when working cases
RCA Specialist – Anti-Money Laundering Analyst
US Bank
Charlotte
12.2020 - 01.2022
- Investigate and analyze reported customer cases involving potential threats to the Bank, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements
- File on average 10-12 applicable reports per day, escalating financial crime-related matters when appropriate
- Assist in urgent casework and special projects among multiple business lines
- Work cooperatively with internal departments to obtain and analyze necessary information related to the investigation
- Reviewed and assessed the risk relationship of bank customers on a periodic basis as part of a broader risk management framework
- Crafted on average 3-5 narrative summaries of customer profiles and transaction reviews per day
- Remotely, and under minimal supervision, completed periodic reviews via case management tools (Actimize, WebKYC, and WebOmni) to timely completion
- Worked with various business units to analyze financial crimes and fraud-related triggers, all within compliance with laws
Fraud Analyst – Financial Crimes Agent
Truist (Formerly BB&T)
Charlotte
06.2019 - 10.2020
- Provided outstanding personalized customer service via an average of 50-60 inbound calls/day from Truist clients
- Reviewed patterns and practices for indicators of identity theft or fraudulent activity, such as stolen/lost bank cards, wire fraud, ATM withdrawals, etc.
- Responded timely and appropriately to inquiries from clients and Bank associates requesting information on fraud cases
- Researched case evidence for validity and authenticity
- Provided input on fraud trends or process improvement ideas based on department results
Technical Specialist
Apple
Charlotte
10.2018 - 01.2020
- Quickly assessed needs to provide exceptional assistance and training to 30+ customers/day.
- Delivered product diagnoses and potential solutions/advice for the full array of Apple products.
- Flexibility to thrive in an ever-changing retail environment with evolving products.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration/Management
Newberry College
Newberry, South CarolinaSkills
- Transaction monitoring
- Suspicious activity reporting
- Customer risk assessments
- Critical thinking
- Problem solving
- Risk analysis
References
Available upon request
Honors Awards Activities
- Avid fitness enthusiast
- Passionate youth coach/mentor
- Face of Riddell Sports, signed model with Naturally Fit Agency
- Safety for VooDoo, traveling adult flag football team
- Former Newberry College Football team captain; 2015-2017
- Newberry College Varsity Football team on scholarship; 2013-2017
Timeline
Due Diligence Consultant
Wells Fargo (Contract)
01.2025 - Current
Financial Crimes Specialist
Wells Fargo (Contract)
07.2024 - 01.2025
Financial Crimes Specialist
Protiviti
02.2024 - 07.2024
Financial Crimes Specialist
Varo Bank
01.2022 - 02.2024
RCA Specialist – Anti-Money Laundering Analyst
US Bank
12.2020 - 01.2022
Fraud Analyst – Financial Crimes Agent
Truist (Formerly BB&T)
06.2019 - 10.2020
Technical Specialist
Apple
10.2018 - 01.2020
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration/Management
Newberry College