Zachary Dobson is a director with K2 Integrity’s Financial Crimes Compliance practice. With over 10 years’ industry experience, he assists financial institution clients with anti-money laundering (AML) lookbacks, enhanced due diligence reviews, cryptocurrency investigations, quality assurance (QA), filing suspicious activity reports (SARs), and drafting policies and procedures.
Zachary leads teams on the disposition of alerts or cases to identify and report suspicious activity relating to money laundering, fraud, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions violations, and terrorism financing. He researches, documents, and analyzes background information on individuals and businesses through public and internal databases. Zachary also coordinates requests for information (RFIs), collects and documents data involving politically exposed persons (PEPs), negative media, OFAC sanctions, and SAR history. He summarizes and presents high-risk findings related to money laundering and terrorism financing as well as SAR filing and account closure recommendations to clients.
Prior to joining K2 Integrity, Zachary was an AML analyst at JPMorgan Chase, where he worked on AML lookbacks, threshold optimization, remediation, and performed quality assurance reviews. 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 various AML typology scenarios involving wires, cash, checks, and monetary instruments for correspondent banks located in high-risk jurisdictions.
Zachary received a B.A. in criminal justice from the University of Delaware. He is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS).
