Senior Vice President, Financial Crimes
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About the Role
The role involves managing financial crime risks, ensuring compliance, and leading strategy development while requiring strong financial crime expertise and interpersonal skills.
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Responsibilities
- Lead the development and implementation of a comprehensive financial crimes strategy integrating Sanctions, AML, Fraud, ABC, and Reputational Risk management
- Provide guidance, on going support, and constructive challenge to business teams to ensure appropriate & effective controls
- Establish and maintain a robust Financial Crime control environment across the MEA cluster
- Assess complex issues, structure potential solutions, and drive effective resolution with senior stakeholders
- Assess and help manage Financial Crime and Reputational Risk across Services in MEA
- Ensure adequate mapping of risk and processes and clear control ownership
- Create & maintain a robust partnership with business heads, operations, technology and second line of defense
- Ensure clear and timely escalation of control issues
- Drive a consistent and holistic approach to Financial Crimes risk management across Services
- Ensure early engagement on new business initiatives to ensure timely support and adherence to policies
- Conduct reviews of financial crimes processes and procedures to ensure controls are in keeping with policy
- Prepare and provide regular updates to senior management and governance committees
Requirements
- Bachelor's/University degree required; master's degree desirable
- 15+ years experience in financial crime compliance or risk management
- Financial Crime certification preferred (ACAMS, ACSS etc.)
- Strong understanding of international Sanctions
- Strong professional experience in Financial Services, in Financial Crime Compliance and/or Financial Crime Risk & Controls
- Knowledge and understanding of Payments, Securities, Custody, Digital Assets
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Team/Role Overview
- This first line role is responsible for supporting the Services businesses in managing and mitigating financial crime risks end to end for the MEA cluster, with a specific focus on ensuring proactive, effective, and sustainable financial crimes risk management.
- The successful candidate will lead the development and implementation of a comprehensive financial crimes strategy that integrates Sanctions, Anti Money Laundering (AML), Fraud, Anti Bribery and Corruption (ABC), Fraud and Reputational Risk management.
- The Financial Crimes SVP is a hands on role and will provide guidance, on going support, and constructive challenge to the business teams to ensure appropriate & effective controls are introduced and maintained.
- The Financial Crimes Risk SVP will help establish and maintain a robust Financial Crime control environment across the MEA cluster.
- The position will report to the Services global head of Financial Crime Risks.
What you'll do
- Understand business owned products and services (payments, Baas, digital assets, custody, fund services, CC, LMS, trade finance), as well as corresponding financial crimes related controls and processes.
- Provide financial crimes compliance/risk management subject matter expertise to the Services businesses in MEA to ensure the design and implementation of a coherent and effective control environment.
- Assess complex issues, structure potential solutions, and drive effective resolution with other senior stakeholders.
- Assess and help manage Financial Crime (AML, Sanctions, ABC & Fraud) as well as Reputational Risk across Services in MEA.
- Assess existing control framework, identify potential compliance gaps.
- Drive execution ensuring compliance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations, as well as effectiveness of the control environment.
- Ensure adequate mapping of risk and processes and clear control ownership.
- Create & maintain a robust partnership with the business heads, operations, technology and the second line of defense.
- Ensure clear and timely escalation of control issues, while assisting their adequate management and internal reporting.
- Drive a consistent and holistic approach to Financial Crimes risk management across Services.
- Ensure early engagement on new business initiatives to ensure timely support of commercial priorities and full adherence to global, regional & local risk management policies and procedures.
- Conduct reviews of financial crimes processes and procedures to ensure that both controls and processes are in keeping with policy and business expectations.
What we'll need from you
- Bachelor's/University degree required, master's degree desirable.
- 15+ years experience in financial crime compliance or risk management.
- Financial Crime certification preferred (ACAMS, ACSS etc.).
- Strong understanding of international Sanctions.
- Strong professional experience in Financial Services, in Financial Crime Compliance and/or Financial Crime Risk & Controls.
- Knowledge and understanding of Payments, Securities, Custody, Digital Asset.
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