Global Sanctions Manager
Airwallex
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California, New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $120,000 - $180,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Responsible for ensuring the Global Sanctions Policy is effectively implemented across the first and second lines of defense.
- Proactively develop, recommend, and implement risk-based processes and controls to ensure compliance with economic sanctions, especially emerging regimes, and programs
- Stay up-to-date on latest global AML/CFT and sanctions regulatory developments and ensure controls are updated to remain in compliance with any changes in laws and regulations.
- Review and investigate escalated customers and transactions identified for potential matches to sanctions lists within Service Level Agreement deadlines
- Address sanctions related queries from first line product, commercial, and operations teams
- Draft, maintain and implement economic sanctions policies and procedures
- Develop and deliver specialized training to relevant internal audiences concerning economic sanctions for first line business partners
- Coordinate with the Risk Assessment team on the economic sanctions Risk Assessment
- Conduct ad hoc due diligence projects arising from the administration of the economic sanctions program
- Assist with responding to regulatory exams and inquiries and internal audits, including overseeing document productions
- Identify, report, and explain metrics and other management information regarding sanctions compliance-related events
Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant experience, preferably at a fintech, payments company, or large/complex financial institution
- Demonstrated understanding of laws, rules, regulations, and industry best practices pertaining to economic sanctions
- Experience configuring customer and transactional screening technologies and managing alert disposition processes
- Strong project management skills
- Ability to understand and assess a wide variety of complex commercial transactions
- Highly motivated self-starter, able to work independently while collaborating and coordinating as part of a global program
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to provide viable recommendations and solutions
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) plan
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Basic life insurance
- Well-being benefits
- 20 paid days of vacation
- 12 paid days of company holidays
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
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Soft skills
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