Global Financial Crimes Sanctions Officer - Vice President

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About Global Financial Crimes

In Global Financial Crimes (GFC), you will play a critical role in identifying potentially suspicious activity, protecting vulnerable individuals, and safeguarding the integrity of the financial system. GFC coordinates day-to-day implementation of the Firm's financial crime prevention efforts. Including governance, oversight, and execution of the Firm's Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Sanctions, Anti-Corruption and Government and Political Activities Compliance programs.

If you are passionate about financial crimes prevention, seeking a rewarding and dynamic career, and focused on making a difference, then GFC might be the right team for you.

Your Key Responsibilities:

As a Sanctions Compliance team member in GFC, you will:
- Be responsible for compliance and regulatory matters pertaining to economic sanctions programs adhered to under the Firm's Global Sanctions Policy, including the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), His Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom's Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI), the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), and the Council of the European Union (EU Council)
- Assist in the ongoing development, administration, and implementation of the Firm's economic sanctions compliance program
- Review and investigate escalated payments and/or transactions identified for potential matches to sanctions lists; ensure prompt handling and response
- Address sanctions related queries from first line risk, business, and operations groups with respect to sanctioned products and related risks
- Work with GFC business advisory and legal teams, provide written and verbal communication on issues to the lines of business, performing and reviewing highly sensitive client and transaction search information, reporting, escalating and documenting results
- Draft, maintain and implement economic sanctions policies and procedures, where appropriate
- Maintain awareness of regulatory changes related to economic sanctions, ensuring proper communication and timely implementation of new procedures and/or enhanced due diligence programs in compliance with any change in laws and regulations
- Develop, recommend, and implement risk-based processes and controls to ensure business unit compliance with economic sanction, especially emerging regimes, and programs
- Develop content for and deliver specialized training to relevant internal audiences concerning economic sanctions for both in-person and Firm-wide online training modules
- Coordinate with the Risk Assessment team on the yearly 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
- Collect, interpret, and escalate metrics and other management information regarding sanctions compliance-related events

What We're Looking for in You

- Strong academic credentials; Bachelor's degree required
- 5+ years of relevant experience, preferably at a large/complex financial institution, law firm, or government/regulatory body
- Detailed understanding of the laws, rules, regulations, and industry best practice pertaining to economic sanctions, in particular the sanctions programs administered and enforced across EMEA and by OFAC
- Experience in configuration of client and transactional screening technologies and management of 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 and the ability to provide viable solutions in a time-sensitive environment
- Strong written and verbal communications skills, attention to detail, and effective time management
- Sound judgment and an ability to appropriately escalate issues internally
- Strong interpersonal skills and team-player attitude
- Experience in managing export con