GFC Specialist - Economic Sanctions

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• →Provide oversight of sanctions compliance tools used in transactions and customer screening, including tool performance monitoring
• →Support governance around onboarding of new screening lists, screening list rules and list applicability across sanctions screening technology
• →Collaborate on data mapping, lineage tracing, and integrity checks across sanctions screening systems
• →Participate in governance around changes to sanctions compliance tools, including documentation updates, requirement gathering, and system enhancement discussions
• →Monitor, test, and report on tool performance metrics and key controls
• →Coordinate with compliance, technology, and operations teams to support regulatory and audit requests with sanctions screening technology
• →Supports 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
• →Assists in the production of independent financial crimes risk management reporting to Global Compliance & Operational Risk (GC&OR) Senior Leaders and FLU/CF Senior Leaders
• →Assists in the monitoring of 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
• →Contributes to risk coverage plans, executes independent risk monitoring, testing, and risk assessments
• →Supports with escalating financial crimes related compliance and operational risks and issues to appropriate governance routines, management/board level committees
• →Assists in the identification, aggregation, reporting, and escalation of the remediation and thematic analysis of FLU/CF-owned issues and control enhancements related to financial crimes
• →Assists in the review of internal and external operational loss events, including the development of remediation plans to strengthen controls and providing oversight to ensure they are addressed appropriately

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in financial services industry, risk management, financial crimes, testing, or related field
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

• Experience in managing sanctions program issues and metrics
• Ability to handle multiple compliance projects in a dynamic environment with competing priorities across a global team setting
• Excellent business stakeholder management and communication skills
• Financial Services and/or related government entity​

• Critical Thinking
• Monitoring, Surveillance, and Testing
• Regulatory Compliance
• Risk Management
• Issue Management
• Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines Management
• Written Communications
• Coaching
• Reporting
• Talent Development