Sanction Control Expert-Americas & EMEA

Responsibilities1, Reporting to the Group Assurance Lead and supporting the Americas Region Sanctions Compliance Officer, to be the Sanctions Strategy/Controls for Americas & EMEA.2, In accordance with the Sanctions Compliance Officer's implementation of Sanctions laws and regulations, through Sanctions screening and controls of various business scenarios and nodes, confirming the scope of the list and screening strategies, preventing, and intercepting Sanctions, and maintaining the baseline of Sanctions.3, Serve as the Sanction Control SME responsible for designing, implementing & maintaining sanction related controls in the Americas and EMEA regions;4, By jurisdiction/entity/product level understand business & Sanctions compliance requests, design specific control (list/rule/logic etc.) and work with tech team to ensure relevant control are put in place at designed;5, List/Rule/Logic lifecycle management (develop, maintain, tuning and retire), to formalize the process and centrally manage key Sanctions control components;6, Work with tech team on different projects to digitalize, automate and increase overall effectiveness of current key control process;7, Work with Sanctions Compliance Officer and Operation teams in regulatory inspection and other internal / external audits;8, Define group tuning methodology, ensure periodic tuning and assessment of screening engine effectiveness for entities.9, Within the framework of Group Assurance supervision, continuous monitoring and validation are conducted for the screening data access, completeness status, and effectiveness of sanctions screening strategies in the responsible regions.10, Chinese (Mandarin) ability will be a plus.Reporting lineReport to the Head of Group Assurance Team while supporting Sanctions compliance officers in the Americas and EMEA regionsRequirements:1, Bachelor degree or above majoring in computer science/engineering, statistics, Mathematics, finance and similar fields; Candidate with experience in AML/Sanctions risk modelling, parameter tuning/optimization and data analytics are preferred.2, At least three years' AML/Sanctions risk control/fraud management working experience in FI, PI, consulting firms or similar industries; CAMS is a plus.3, Proficient in data handling coding (e.g., SQL) and at least one professional analytics tool such as SAS, python etc. Experience in big data distributed processing is preferred, such as Hadoop, Spark, Flink and other framework experience.4, Strong project management experience, good sense of teamwork, strong ability to withstand pressure, able to lead team members to achieve business goals;5, Ability in logic thinking and problem solving; Ability to plan & work independently on required deliverables and deadlines; Ability in independently completing suspicious transaction analysis (a full cycle of identify the problem, determine root cause, recommend plans, implement solutions); Ability in writing risk/model assessment reports.

Created: 2025-03-03