Senior Anti-Financial Crime and Compliance Manager
Equals Money
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Sanctions & Compliance Officer
Ecommpay
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Lead 2LoD sanctions program oversight within a fintech payments company, shaping global sanctions framework, policies, and procedures. This includes staying current on key sanctions regulatory changes, enforcement actions, and industry trends to ensure our program remains robust and effective.
- Stay current on sanctions regulatory changes, enforcement actions, and industry trends to ensure our program remains robust and effective.
- Provide expert advisory and guidance to business units on sanctions policy applicability and regulatory requirements. This includes advising on new business initiatives, product launches, and complex transactions from a sanctions perspective.
- Advise on new business initiatives, product launches, and complex transactions from a sanctions perspective.
- Analyse data and prepare comprehensive reports related to sanctions risk assessments and monitoring.
- Escalate potential breaches or non-adherence to senior management and global partners.
- Oversee first-line sanctions control processes, ensuring adherence to procedures and global standards; coordinate investigations with Legal, HR, etc.
- Assess impact of sanctions-related issues; define disciplinary and corrective actions; track remedial actions.
- Support internal assurance processes including risk assessments, self-assessments, internal audit reviews, and regulatory examinations.
- Collaborate with Product and Technology to implement sanctions screening and resolution, including testing of fuzzy logic.
- Draft and edit sanctions materials; maintain records; contribute to training programs.
- Partner with functional counterparts to promote global consistency of Sanctions ICRM practices.
Requirements
- Proven experience in a Second Line of Defense (2LoD) Sanctions Compliance role within a financial or payments institution
- Deep understanding of global economic sanctions regulations (e.g., OFAC, UN, EU, HMT).
- Demonstrable experience in assessing sanctions risk exposure and overseeing the quality of sanctions control processes.
- Ability to analyze complex data, prepare comprehensive reports, and present findings to senior stakeholders.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to provide clear and concise advice on complex sanctions matters.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a meticulous attention to detail.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
- Proactive and self-motivated, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
- Prior experience supporting internal audit reviews or regulatory examinations is highly desirable.
- Experience with screening and compliance platforms (e.g., Dow Jones, WorldCheck, Fircosoft, RDC, Actimize, or similar).
- Familiarity with broader financial crime risks, including PEPs, adverse media, and customer due diligence.
- Strong analytical skills and a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, evolving regulatory environment.
- Professional certifications such as ACAMS, CGSS, or ICA are a plus.
