Sanctions Director

Sanctions Director

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration or law or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience
• Typically requires a minimum of five years of experience in banking or financial services compliance
• Communicates ideas both verbally and in written form in a clear, concise, and professional manner
• Comprehensive knowledge of at least one substantive area of compliance, such as banking regulations, anti-money laundering, or anti-corruption
• Excellent analytical skills
• Ability to understand technical documents and legal or regulatory reference materials
• Ability to understand and apply learned concepts
• Demonstrated ability to plan and complete work within tight time limitations
• Ability to apply creative problem-solving techniques and tools to compliance issues
• Ability to follow and conduct a compliance monitoring program
• Ability to provide information to a variety of audiences and deal effectively with confidential issues that are sensitive in nature
• Ability to share information with awareness of its effect on others

Responsibilities

• SME for both Sanctions and Export (tangible)
• Establishes operational objectives and work plans
• Develops, modifies and executes company policies that affect immediate operations
• Oversees development and implementation of compliance program policies and standards as well as addressing other required regulatory policies
• Responds to issues and matters pertaining to sanctions and export compliance of FIS products, services and business activities
• Performs periodic sanctions and export reviews and evaluations of FIS products, services and business activities to validate compliance with applicable laws and regulations or detect regulatory violations, weak controls or other potential areas of exposure
• Assists in providing final disposition of any discrepancies regarding compliance issues
• Ensures strategic objectives of the Compliance program are met, including execution of risk assessment activities, coordination of risk response and program testing and validation
• Identifies key business processes, performs evaluations of risk, assesses the effectiveness of controls and promotes improvement across the organization through the deployment of risk response activities
• Designs and deploys processes to validate FIS products, services and business activities meet all applicable regulatory requirements
• Participates in corporate development of methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for projects, programs and people
• Creates and delivers training to other business areas to increase compliance awareness
• Develops and motivates staff
• Maintains knowledge of applicable laws and regulations
• Offers guidance on implementing regulatory changes
• Communicates detailed requirements to line of business, validate solution approach and monitor status
• Provides compliance reviews and direction for new and expanding products and services
• Conducts compliance assessments and provides direction on any deficiencies detected by those assessments
• Meets with business unit Compliance Officers on a regular basis for status updates on compliance issues
• Monitors line of business compliance activities to verify that regulatory compliance deadlines and requirements are met
• Participates in training promoting compliance awareness
• Identifies areas of potential improvement
• Provides updates for periodic reports
• Interfaces with legal counsel and federal, state, and local agencies, as needed to address regulatory or compliance issues, concerns or questions
• Assists the business with responses to customer compliance-specific questions and concerns
• Participates with and/or leads customer focus and advisory groups
• Prepares and approves internal and customer communications covering compliance issues (bulletins, position statements, monthly reports, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.