CAMI as a career path is very difficult to choose. Certified Anti Money Laundering Investigator as the name suggests is a certification created for the entry level professionals. Upon entry you will likely have accepted a position of specialist, analyst, or investigator. Your work will likely entail research and analysis tasks associated with conducting investigations and/or due diligence. You may draft short summaries that are consumed internally or you may produce detailed BSA records that are filed with the Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs), such as a Suspicious Activity/Transaction Report (SAR/STR) or Currency Transaction Report (CTR).
Management’s productivity and quality standards depends on the tasks and activities that are complete. Hence, The environment, unfortunately, revolves around production and deadlines.
Since, there is lack of interest, the production aspect of the work is extremely tiring. There should be exposition of significant matter. that may have impact on the national security level.
Career Path
The tough path ahead is working into a senior or quality control role (where you review entry level work). Beyond that you are fighting purely against numbers when it comes to opportunities to move into leadership roles within the organization or even outside the organization. Those that do make it into a leadership role most likely serve in a team lead capacity, manager capacity, or in larger organization perhaps a senior manager capacity. Therefore, the reality of these leadership positions is that you are at best entry level management within the organization. Hence, CAMI as a career path plays a vital role.
The pinnacle of the operations career path is typically an appointment as an FIU Director or AML Operations Executive (at larger organizations). These pinnacle roles will certainly offer more exposure to your organization’s senior/executive management and sometimes the board. However, one operate more laterally while maintaining oversight of the entire operations environment.
