Zachary Dobson is a director with K2 Integrity’s Financial Crimes Compliance practice. He has experience in anti-money laundering (AML) lookbacks, research and analysis, quality assurance (QA), and writing suspicious activity reports (SARs).
Zachary works on the disposition of alerts or cases for financial institution clients, including providing supporting data, analysis, and rationale for disposition in a timely manner. He researches, documents, and analyzes background information on clients and correspondent banks through public and internal databases. Zachary also collects and documents data involving politically exposed persons (PEPs), negative media, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions, and SAR history. He summarizes and communicates high-risk findings related to money laundering and terrorism financing and conducts periodic internal account/customer reviews to identify potentially suspicious activity.
Prior to joining K2 Integrity, Zachary was an AML analyst at JPMorgan Chase, where he worked on AML lookbacks, threshold optimization, remediation, and quality assurance. He trained more than 100 employees on how to analyze complex AML trends at the alert and case investigations level. Zachary also tested policies and procedures through 12 AML typology scenarios involving wires, cash, checks, and monetary instruments in high-risk geographic areas for correspondent banks. In addition, he analyzed alerted transactions in various lines of businesses including asset management, commercial banking, retail banking, business banking, Latin America, treasury services, and correspondent banking.
Zachary received a B.A. in criminal justice from the University of Delaware.