Global Financial Crimes Manager

Job Description:

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Job Description:
This job is responsible for executing substantive money laundering, economic sanctions and fraud compliance and operational risk practices. Key responsibilities include working directly or through compliance officers for the Front Line Units (FLUs) and Control Functions (CFs) to complete compliance, policy, operational/fraud risk management requirements.

The Global Financial Crimes Manager is responsible for leading a team of 18 Global Financial Crimes (GFC) Specialists who oversee case assignments and escalations across the full range of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) investigations, spanning all levels of case complexity. This role ensures timely and accurate delivery of cases to the right investigative teams, based on case aging, prioritization, and risk. The Manager also oversees workforce management, investigator scheduling, time tracking, and reporting to senior management.

The Manager plays a critical role in ensuring investigations are distributed efficiently, escalations are managed appropriately, and case throughput is effectively balanced across internal teams and vendor partners. The Manager is expected to influence process improvements, build strong relationships with senior leaders and stakeholders, and optimize operational efficiency.  This position requires both operational rigor and leadership presence to align teams, vendors, and systemic partners in support of financial crimes objectives.  
 

Responsibilities:

• Advises and directs the development and maintenance of financial crimes owned policies and standards, and reviews relevant Front Line Units/Control Functions-owned policies and standards to ensure that regulatory requirements and operational risks are appropriately addressed

• Produces and/or oversees independent financial crimes risk management reporting to Global Compliance & Operational Risk (GC&OR) Senior Leaders and FLU/CF Senior Leaders

• Monitors the changes in regulations applicable to Global Financial Crimes, including advising business leaders, directing the appropriate areas to implement or amend policies, standards, procedures and/or processes to address regulatory requirements, and challenging the implementation plan as needed

• Participates in industry forums and monitors regulatory expectations, emerging legislation and regulation, political scrutiny, litigation and key influencers to identify and mitigate emerging risks

• Escalates financial crimes related compliance and operational risks and issues to appropriate governance routines, management/board level committees

• Identifies, aggregates, reports, escalates, inspects, and challenges the remediation and thematic analysis of FLU/CF-owned issues and control enhancements related to financial crimes

• Reviews and challenges internal and external operational loss events, including the development of remediation plans to strengthen controls and providing oversight to ensure they are addressed appropriately

Case Assignment & Escalation Oversight

• Lead and manage a team of 18 GFC Specialists responsible for assigning AML investigation cases across multiple business lines and complexity levels.

• Ensure cases are delivered to the appropriate teams based on aging, prioritization, and risk level.

• Oversee escalation management to ensure timely routing of complex and high-risk cases.

• Maintain visibility into case throughput internally and across vendor teams, ensuring SLAs and timeliness standards are met.

Workforce & Performance Management

• Oversee workforce management for investigative teams, including time tracking, attendance, and adherence to scheduling requirements.

• Provide leadership, c