Associate - Sanctions Compliance Officer Investigations

Job Title: Associate - Sanctions Compliance Officer Investigations

Location: Jacksonville, FL

Type: Fulltime

Overview:

The Bank benefits from having a highly experienced and dedicated Anti Financial Crime (AFC) function, which performs a crucial role in keeping Bank’s business operations and global financial services clean from financial crime while serving the interests of the Bank and society. To combat financial crime effectively and respond to challenges in a flexible manner, AFC has a matrix

structure combining regional, business line, and global functional coverage in our core areas of Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Sanctions & Embargoes, Anti-Fraud, Bribery & Corruption (AFBC), Investigations & Intelligence, Monitoring & Screening, and Risk Assessment. Part of our commitment is to strengthen a strong collaboration with all business lines and support functions within our bank.

AFC helps Bank generate long-term trust and add value for our clients, staff, and society and provide challenging opportunities for you to learn, contribute, and benefit from your journey with us. We foster an open and inclusive team culture with the aim to build and maintain a healthy, engaged, and well-supported diverse workforce that is equipped to do their best and enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace, whilst applying the highest standards of conduct to guarantee Bank’s success in fighting financial crime.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Support Bank in protecting bank from legal, regulatory, and reputational risk regarding business involving sanctioned entities and/or countries.
• Monitor the regulatory situation in the region and assist in ensuring significant events impacting Bank are addressed as need be.
• Accurately apply OFAC and EU regulations and Bank policy to payment messages and coordinate significant issues requiring further escalation within Bank’s Anti-Financial Crimes and across business and operations.
• Diligently investigate payment messages escalated from Regulatory Filtering Operations to US Sanctions Compliance for potential sanctions, AML, or policy violations
• Identify and escalate issues which are not addressed by current policies or standards, draft and implement possible solutions.
• Interface with client service officers on transaction-related requests and decide on these in full compliance with all applicable sanctions regulations as well as the bank’s policies and procedures.

Your Skills and Experience:

• Relevant experience in AML or sanctions compliance and operations in a global financial institution
• Strength in U.S. economic sanctions regulations
• Moderate experience in financial services or similar industry in compliance, legal, or project management function, working with policies and procedures, group governance and/or organizational management.
• BA/BS, or JD/Masters

If you are interested please send me your updated resume to [email protected]