Global Financial Crimes Manager - Economic Sanctions

Job Description:

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This job is responsible for executing substantive money laundering, economic sanctions and fraud compliance and operational risk practices. Key responsibilities include working directly or through compliance officers for the Front Line Units (FLUs) and Control Functions (CFs) to complete compliance, policy, operational/fraud risk management requirements.

This job is responsible for executing substantive money laundering, economic sanctions and fraud compliance and operational risk practices. Key responsibilities include working directly or through compliance officers for the Front Line Units (FLUs) and Control Functions (CFs) to complete compliance, policy, operational/fraud risk management requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and oversight for sanctions screening tools used in transaction and customer screening, ensuring optimal performance and adherence to compliance standards.

• Drive governance processes to support the onboarding new screening lists, defining screening list rules, and ensuring appropriate list applicability across all sanctions screening technologies.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain accurate data mapping, lineage tracing, and integrity checks within sanctions screening systems.

• Monitor, test, and report on tool performance metrics and control effectiveness, leveraging data analytics to identify trends and improvement opportunities.

• Support program management and change management for initiatives impacting sanctions screening technology, ensuring milestones, deliverables, and risk management are tracked and communicated.

• Advises and directs the development and maintenance of financial crimes owned policies and standards, and reviews relevant Front Line Units/Control Functions-owned policies and standards to ensure that regulatory requirements and operational risks are appropriately addressed

• Produces and/or oversees independent financial crimes risk management reporting to Global Compliance & Operational Risk (GC&OR) Senior Leaders and FLU/CF Senior Leaders

• Monitors the changes in regulations applicable to Global Financial Crimes, including advising business leaders, directing the appropriate areas to implement or amend policies, standards, procedures and/or processes to address regulatory requirements, and challenging the implementation plan as needed

• Participates in industry forums and monitors regulatory expectations, emerging legislation and regulation, political scrutiny, litigation and key influencers to identify and mitigate emerging risks

• Escalates financial crimes related compliance and operational risks and issues to appropriate governance routines, management/board level committees

• Identifies, aggregates, reports, escalates, inspects, and challenges the remediation and thematic analysis of FLU/CF-owned issues and control enhancements related to financial crimes

• Reviews and challenges internal and external operational loss events, including the development of remediation plans to strengthen controls and providing oversight to ensure they are addressed appropriately

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of seven years of relevant experience

• Knowledge of economic sanctions and anti-money laundering (AML) and related AML legislation

• Prior people management experience

• Experience in data analysis, data governance, or technology systems

• Ability to work independently and self-manage even with multiple high priority competing tasks

• Strong oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with leadership, Compliance, Risk, and Audit, on a regular basis in a clear and concise manner

• Effective project manager who can lead and execute with a positive, energetic attitude

• Highly organized and detail oriented

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field

• Experience in financial services and/or a related government entity

• Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS)

• Experience in data analysis, data governance, or technology systems (financial services preferred).

• Familiarity with sanctions screening tools and compliance processes.

• Strong analytical skills and ability to work across multiple teams.

Skills:

• Critical Thinking

• Monitoring, Surveillance, and Testing

• Regulatory Compliance

• Risk Management

• Coaching

• Issue Management

• Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines Management

• Strategy Planning and Development

• Written Communications

• External Resource Management

• Reporting

• Talent Development

Preferred Technical Skills:

• Data Analysis, Interpretation & Decisioning

• Issues Management & Resolution

• Risk Identification & Assessment

• Risk Monitoring & Testing

• Products, Services & Acumen - Line of Business (LoB) - GFC

• AML Regulatory Knowledge

• Enhanced Due Diligence

• Financial Crimes Risk Principles

• Threat Assessment

• Legal Expertise

• Policy Analysis and Development

• Political Awareness

• Sanctions Principles

• Screening Process Adherence

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