Vice President, Audit Project Leader - Global Financial Crimes

At BNY, our culture empowers you to grow and succeed. As a leading global financial services company at the center of the world’s financial system we touch nearly 20% of the world’s investible assets. Every day around the globe, our 50,000+ employees bring the power of their perspective to the table to create solutions with our clients that benefit businesses, communities and people everywhere.    

We continue to be a leader in the industry, awarded as a top home for innovators and for creating an inclusive workplace. Through our unique ideas and talents, together we help make money work for the world. This is what #LifeAtBNY is all about.

We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Audit Project Leader to join our Global Financial Crimes team within Internal Audit. This role is located in Lake Mary/Pittsburgh – Hybrid (4 days/w in the office).

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways: 

• Lead or participate in delivering complex and challenging Financial Crime and Sanctions audit assignments.
• Lead or participate in the end-to-end planning, fieldwork, and reporting of Financial Crime and Sanctions audit assignments - this will require consideration of complex, judgmental business processes and decisions.
• Coach colleagues, review their work, and give meaningful feedback.
• Identify meaningful issues impacting business and operations under review, challenging management to ensure appropriate remedial action has been taken to address the issues identified.
• Prepare draft audit reports.
• Follow-up of audit actions and where necessary testing their implementation.
• Build and proactively manage relationships with key stakeholders and participate in Continuous Monitoring activities.
• Act as a subject matter expert for Internal Audit on Financial Crimes and Sanctions topics.
• Contribute to the development of the annual audit plan.
• Maintain up to date knowledge of industry best practice and regulatory requirements.
• Carry out other ad-hoc tasks and projects as directed by audit senior management.
• Represent Internal Audit on projects and at management meetings/committees.
• Have a data first mindset and harness advanced data analytics to deliver value-added audit projects.

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following: 

• 7-10 years of experience working in financial services or banking, within Third Line Internal Audit or Second Line Risk or in Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Sanctions related processes.
• Experience in auditing second line of defense compliance preferred, but not mandatory.
• Knowledge of US Financial Crimes related laws, rules, and regulations such as Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), USA Patriot Act and OFAC.
• Strong communication, influencing skills and confident in communicating with stakeholders both internal and external both written and verbal with the ability to influence at a senior level.
• Substantial operations, conduct, and governance understanding and exposure.
• Strong risk and control mindset
• Self-starter with a high degree of self-sufficiency
• Excellent planning, co-ordination, organization, and presentation skills
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment and adaptable to change.
• Strong knowledge and use of Excel and other Microsoft software – PowerPoint, Word, Visio
• Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills, including with colleagues remotely.
• Ideally educated to degree level or equivalent professional experience and have completed a recognized relevant post-graduate qualification (e.g. CIA, CMIIA, ACA, ACCA, CAMS), but not essential 

At BNY, our culture speaks for itself. Here’s a few of our awards: 

• America’s Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2024
• World’s Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2024
• Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Corporate Equality Index, 100% score, 2023-2024
• Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion, Disability: IN – 100% score, 2023-2024
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