Sr. Sanctions Analyst, EAML - 12 months secondment

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What you'll be doing

You’ll be joining Sanctions Operations. EAML Sanctions – Operations is responsible to ensure the bank is consistently compliant with applicable sanctions legislation, enterprise-wide by reviewing and keeping abreast of legislative and regulatory developments as it relates to Sanctions.

As the Sr. Analyst, Sanctions Operations, you’ll review and analyze wire payments, online transactions and other monetary instruments that have been interrupted by other financial institutions to ensure transactions are onside with current sanctions legislation. Review and analyze potential matches to sanctioned individuals/entities, sanctioned jurisdictions, higher risk clients/jurisdictions and work high priority files or projects and ensure consistency with internal procedures. You may also review alerts/other sources of work to assess and opine on potential regulatory reporting as required.

• This role is a 12 month secondment position

How you'll succeed

- Ensure Compliance – Review and adjudicate escalated wire payments and other monetary instruments and or transactions to ensure adherence to sanctions legislation. Independently track and keep abreast of legislative and regulatory developments related to sanctions.

- Sanctions Subject Matter Expertise – Provide support on sanction-related queries that may come from various LOBs/SBUs/Regions.

- Investigations Leadership – Gather, organize and interpret data and/or information, and formulate preliminary conclusions. Work high priority cases/complex transactions that are deemed to be sanctions related and recommend further course of action up to and including preparing various regulatory reporting to be submitted to regulators or law enforcement while ensuring accuracy and consistency with documented procedures.

Who you are

- You can demonstrate experience in sanctions screening with focus on the areas of name/ payments / entity screening. You have previous experience in processing international wire payments including strong knowledge of SWIFT, various wire fields, various MT wire message types, etc. Outside of Sanctions, if you have experience in Correspondent bank roles, or as an investigator in Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU)/ High Risk Enhanced Due Diligence/ in the area of Terrorist Financing in a financial institutions, then you will thrive in this role.