Global Financial Crimes & Compliance Sanctions Team Lead

At BBH, Partnership is more than a form of ownership—it’s our approach to business and relationships.  We know that supporting your professional and personal goals is the best way to help our clients and advance our business. We take that responsibility seriously. With a 200-year legacy and a shared passion for what’s next, this is the right place to build a fulfilling career.

Candidates must be located in the Central NY/Utica or Pittsburgh regions to be eligible for this role

Global Financial Crime Compliance Sanctions Team Lead

At Brown Brothers Harriman, we believe no job is too big or small for any of us to handle if it helps our clients. We value passionate, committed people who enjoy collaborating with others to find new solutions to complex business challenges. We are looking for the type of person who speaks their mind, truly listens and steps outside their role to add value wherever they can.  Someone who is driven to get things done and views obstacles as an exciting challenge that demands a creative solution. Above all, we seek someone who takes great pride in their work and is inspired and motivated by their role in protecting and enhancing our client’s financial well-being.

If you are looking for an entrepreneurial environment where you can learn and thrive, Brown Brothers Harriman is the right place for you

GFCC Sanctions Team Lead

Brown Brothers Harriman is currently recruiting for a GFCC Sanctions Team Lead to join our Global Financial Crime Compliance team. In this role you will be responsible for support and overseeing the daily activities within the Central Screening Unit to support AML/Sanctions screening-related activities.  You will also provide oversight of, and guidance to team members performing sanctions reviews to ensure that dispositions are appropriate and documented in a consistent manner.   Some of the responsibilities include developing and maintaining a team focused on balancing sanctions risk and AML/reputational risks, as well as providing reviews of escalated alerts from the team that were generated from multiple sources included but not limited to money movements, security set-ups and transactions, trades, corporate actions, client-related names and regulations. 

Some of your key responsibilities include:  

Daily Oversight

• Supervise day-to-day activities.

• Ensure hits/alerts are handled in accordance with defined procedures and meet standards for both quality and deadlines.  Hits/alerts are generated from sanctions screening of transactions, including but not limited to cash payments, trade instructions, corporate action messaging, and client related names (i.e., Beneficial owners and/or interested parties).

• Support the team with daily inquiries and Interact with other BBH departments/lines of business on resolution of issues

• Regularly updates and ensures accuracy of tracking logs, including Escalation Log for metrics reporting

• Perform reconciliation functions of daily reviews to ensure all hits are addressed and escalated in a timely manner to avoid aging and delays.

• Ensure escalations are properly handled and documented in a timely and efficient manner.

• Serves as the day-to-day subject matter expert in their assigned areas and directs the activity of staff through.

Alert Review

• Review sanctions screening alerts for real time and post transactional in Fircosoft (automated sanctions screening system) for potential violations of Office of Foreign Asset Controls (“OFAC”) and other governmental sanctions regimes, in accordance with defined procedures

• Document the results of the review, and ensure that where appropriate escalation is properly handled

• Identify hits which warrant additional research.  Escalate potential sanctions violations and/or reputational/financial risks to management.

Program/Team Oversight

• Perform Quality Assurance function by sampling dispositioned alerts to ensure filters/processes are operating efficiently and accurately and quality control of team members’ work.

• Support management in identifying, creating and maintaining policies and procedures to ensure compliance with OFAC sanctions filtering/reporting requirements.

• Assist team in navigating through online research tools, internal BBH systems and tools, as well as exploring prior Sanctions Inquires to complete enhanced due diligence.   

• Review of daily/weekly/monthly reports to identify trends.

• Ensure that policies and procedures are adhered to on daily basis with proper evidence.

Training

• Ensures timely completion of all mandatory trainin