VP - Sanctions Team Lead

Job Title

VP - Sanctions Team Lead

Job Description

An exciting opportunity where collaboration drives impact within the Financial Crime Compliance department in the second line of responsibility. Work alongside customers, colleagues, and global teams to deliver meaningful, long-term results through continuous partnership and shared purpose.

Our Shared Future:

“What I value most in this role is the balance between strategic impact and hands-on problem solving—every day we’re protecting the bank and contributing to a safer financial system.”

You and Your Job

As a VP – Sanctions Team Lead you will be successful providing accurate, timely guidance and rationale for all escalations including holistic analyses on trades/shipments. Verifying potential name matches utilizing customer information on internal systems, and against third party open source or vendor systems used by Rabo Diversified Services. Assisting with various ad hoc projects as they arise and with updating the OFAC Sanctions procedures as needed. Providing training and guidance to the other analysts on the team as well as teams within Operations, and functioning as the backup for the North America Head of Sanctions. Assisting with regulatory exam responses and presentations.

Job Responsibilities

• Able to manage workload for the team to ensure deadlines are met.

• Drafts clear client analyses and transaction and trade dispositions, and makes clear recommendations, if necessary.

• Interacts with and influences a variety of stakeholders, including Operations teams and the Business.

• Meet with, respond to, and remediate issues identified by Internal Audit, Compliance Testing Group, and Quality Control Team.

• Comply with all US laws, rules and regulations, including without limitation, AML and OFAC Sanctions requirements and the escalation/reporting of suspicious activity (and all related policies, standards procedures and guidelines), as well as all Rabobank policies and standards.

Your Promise to Us:

To be considered for the Sanctions Team Lead role, you must have:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• 10+ years of prior Sanctions experience at a financial institution, law firm, regulatory agency, professional services firm, or other similar work environment.

• CAMS certification or ACSS certification, preferred.

• Analytical/Investigative skills to determine when an issue should be escalated.

• Solid understanding of sanctions and AML risk identification and mitigation.

• Leadership and strategic influence.

• Supervisory skills for managing a department of widely varied skill sets.

• Ability to interact with all levels of management.

• Strong people skills, ability to empathize and also keep team workflow on track.

• Ability to travel regionally, up to 10%

• Legally authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.  Rabobank is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.

Our Commitment to you – cultivating your way beyond pay:

Rabobank welcomes employees and applicants from all backgrounds and is committed to fostering an inclusive environment that leverages the diverse strengths of our workforce. This enables us to exceed the expectations of our clients and customers while ensuring a healthy and safe environment for our staff.

We believe your well-being extends far beyond just a paycheck and should encompass your health, happiness, and satisfaction. To meet these needs, Rabobank offers a flexible hybrid working model and continually evaluates and enhances our benefit offerings to ensure they are comprehensive, competitive, and provide you with the options and flexibility you need.

Our employee benefits are focused on four main components:

• Physical Well-Being includes our commitment to your Health and Wellness. Medical, Dental and Vision plan coverages are effective on your date of hire. Rabo offers multiple plan options and a full network of providers to best meet your needs.

• Financial Well-Being provides for your Retirement + Savings + Security. We love seeing your retirement plan balance grow just as much as you do! That’s why you can start participating in the 401(k) plan on your date of hire. Plus we match 50% of the first 6% you contribute to your 401(k) plan for US Employees. Rabo also contributes an additional 3% of your eligible pay in Safe Harbor contribution and up to 3% in annual Discretionary Profit Sharing contributions.

• Emotional Well-Being ensures your Work + Life balance. We offer a generous