Financial Crime Sanctions Manager recruitment

 Our client, a global financial institution is looking for a Financial Crime Sanctions manager to join their AML department and provide advice and guidance to the business and other departments to mitigate regulatory risks and facilitate the compliance culture.

Duties Include:

• Responsible for sanctions in relation to the firm covering various business divisions

• Provide advice and support to AML advisory teams in the relevant businesses divisions on UN/EU/UK/US sanctions regimes, including advice regarding alerts produced by payment and client screening systems.

• Maintain responsibility for oversight and distribution of sanctions related policies and guidance.

• Manage all sanctions related issues from communication of new sanctions to delivering of training.

• Manage one staff with responsibility for providing sanctions advice and relevant reporting to internal and external stakeholders

• Coordinate all sanctions, terrorist and group searches issued by group compliance.

• Support the AML advisory teams in the evaluation and implementation of sanctions related processes in respect of the business and firm driven projects.

• Ensure sanctions training is relevant, update and completed by all staff as required.

• Foster good relationships with other department to facilitate proactive compliance culture.

• Undertake periodic risk based functional reviews of sanctions controls as required to ensure relevant businesses have appropriate systems and controls.

• Monitor changes to business practices and products to ensure that advice in respect of Sanctions are adjusted adequately to cover them.

The preferred candidate will ideally have an Investment Banking, Wholesale or Securities background and demonstrate strong knowledge of AML, Financial Crime and Sanctions regime. You should also possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills and be able to interact at all levels of business effectively.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please email your C.V. to inan@altussearch.co.uk or call Inan Rashid on 020 7430 1831 for a confidential discussion.

Altus Search Ltd is acting as an employment agency in relation to this role.