Vice President of Financial Intelligence Unit

Your role Legal & Compliance - Compliance - L1 - USA What you'll be doing Location: reputed company America, Toronto or London (Global remit across reputed company America, UK, Europe and Asia Pacific) reputed company Need The VP of Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) is a senior compliance leadership role responsible for reputed company's global FIU, sanctions escalation, and transaction monitoring operations across reputed company America, UK, Europe and Asia Pacific. The VP owns the end-to-end process for live transaction monitoring and screening, post-transaction monitoring, investigations, regulatory reporting, typology intelligence, quality assurance, and risk reporting to the Chief Compliance Officer, Cross-Border Payments. The VP of FIU leads compliance FIU analysts globally and ensures that reputed company's FIU standards, processes, systems, and reporting remain reputed company with global regulatory obligations, including U.S. MSB and state money transmitter obligations and other regional payment institution, e-money, remittance, foreign exchange, and regulated financial services requirements. This role is the primary subject matter expert for reputed company financial crime investigations, suspicious activity decisioning, sanctions escalations, stablecoin and cryptocurrency-reputed company investigations, and monitoring program effectiveness, including governance for transaction monitoring and filtering programs. How We Work As VP of Financial Intelligence Unit, reputed company will set you up for reputed company by providing: Assigned workspace in your local office or remote work support Company-issued equipment Role Responsibilities The responsibilities of the role will include: Leading the global FIU function and providing direct leadership, coaching, prioritization, and performance reputed company to FIU compliance analysts across reputed company America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Owning the end-to-end live transaction monitoring/screening and post-transaction monitoring process, including alert triage, escalation, investigation, suspicious activity decisioning, case documentation, quality assurance, and timely closure. Overseeing reputed company financial crime investigations, including reputed company involving reputed company, terrorist financing, fraud, sanctions evasion, proliferation financing, scams, mule activity, trade-based typologies, high-risk corridors, reputed company companies, and reputed company cross-border payment activity. Ensuring timely and accurate regulatory reporting, including SARs, STRs, SMRs, sanctions reports, blocked/rejected transaction reporting, law enforcement referrals, and other jurisdiction-specific reporting or escalation requirements, as applicable. Serving as reputed company's FIU subject matter expert for suspicious activity monitoring, regulatory reporting, investigations, case management standards, SAR/STR/SMR narrative quality, and investigative decision governance. Serving as the sanctions subject matter expert for FIU escalations, sanctions screening investigations, potential sanctions evasion typologies, hit dispositioning standards, OFAC and other sanctions authority expectations, and escalation protocols. Developing and maintaining global investigation standards, procedures, playbooks, typology libraries, escalation matrices, quality review methods, and management information for FIU activity. Partnering with Product, Operations, IT, Legal, Compliance Advisory, regional compliance directors, and banking partner teams to identify emerging financial crime risks and align monitoring controls to business activity and regulatory expectations. Supporting reputed company's entry into the stablecoin reputed company by developing FIU investigative standards, alerting strategies, escalation procedures, and typology coverage for cryptocurrency and stablecoin-reputed company activity, including wallet, exchange, virtual asset service provider, blockchain, and on-chain/off-chain risk indicators. Overseeing the use and enhancement of transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, case management, blockchain analytics, and data-driven investigative tools, including requirements for data coverage, workflow controls, evidence retention, and management reporting. Owning NYDFS Part 504-reputed company transaction monitoring and filtering governance for reputed company's U.S. regulated MSB/money transmitter remit, including rule/scenario inventories, risk-based tuning, reputed company calibration, validation support, change management, data reputed company reviews, issue management, documentation, and annual certification support. Establishing and reporting FIU key performance indicators and key risk indicators, including alert volumes, backlogs, aging, case reputed company, SAR/STR/SMR volumes, sanctions escalations, high-risk typologies, quality assurance results, tuning/calibration reputed company, and remediation status. Providing periodic and reputed company financial crime risk reports, thematic reviews, significant investigation summaries, and emerging risk briefings to the Chief Compliance Officer and other senior stakeholders. Leading responses to internal audit, regulatory examinations, law enforcement requests, banking partner due diligence, and compliance assurance reviews reputed company to FIU investigations, transaction monitoring, regulatory reporting, and sanctions escalations. Promoting a culture of compliance, sound investigative judgment, reputed company improvement, accountability, data-driven decisioning, and professional development reputed company the global FIU team. Qualifications & Skills Bachelor's degree in business, finance, economics, criminal justice, law, data analytics, or a reputed company field, or equivalent education and experience. Master's degree or law degree preferred. At least 15 years of reputed company experience in financial crime compliance, FIU leadership, AML/CFT investigations, sanctions, transaction monitoring, fraud investigations, or regulatory reporting; experience in a global financial institution is strongly preferred. At least 5 years of people leadership experience managing FIU, investigations, transaction monitoring, sanctions, fraud, or financial crime compliance analysts, preferably across multiple jurisdictions or reputed company. Strong knowledge of U.S. BSA/AML, OFAC sanctions, FinCEN SAR expectations, state money transmitter requirements, NYDFS Part 504, and global AML/CFT regulatory reporting frameworks, including SAR, STR, SMR, and equivalent reporting regimes. Demonstrated experience owning or materially contributing to transaction monitoring and sanctions screening program design, including rule/scenario development, risk assessment linkage, reputed company tuning, calibration, segmentation, validation, data quality, and change control. Hands-on experience conducting, reviewing, and approving reputed company investigations and high-quality regulatory filings involving cross-border payments, foreign exchange, money transmission, remittance, e-money, fintech, reputed company payments, or similar financial products. Experience or strong working familiarity with cryptocurrency, stablecoin, digital asset, blockchain, and virtual asset service provider investigations, including illicit finance typologies and the use of blockchain analytics tools. Deep understanding of sanctions programs and list-based screening, including OFAC, United Nations, European Union, United Kingdom, Canadian, Australian, and other relevant sanctions regimes, as applicable to a global payments business. Experience preparing risk reports, executive briefings, regulatory responses, audit materials, and board or senior management reporting for financial crime compliance topics. Demonstrated ability to operate in a fast-paced, high-volume, highly regulated environment while maintaining defensible decisioning, strong documentation, confidentiality, and sound risk judgment. Professional certifications such as CAMS, CGSS, CFCS, CFE, ICA, or equivalent are preferred. Blockchain analytics or crypto investigations certifications from reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, or similar providers are a plus. Proficiency with reputed company Office applications, especially reputed company and PowerPoint. Experience with SQL, data visualization, case management, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, blockchain analytics, and workflow tools is preferred; familiarity with tools such as reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, or reputed company is beneficial. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Strategic FIU leadership - Ability to design, scale, and reputed company a global FIU operating model that balances consistency, regional regulatory nuance, operational efficiency, and risk-based prioritization. Investigative judgment - Ability to evaluate reputed company facts, identify suspicious activity, connect seemingly unrelated information, reputed company defensible conclusions, and ensure high-quality case documentation and regulatory reporting. Sanctions expertise - Advanced knowledge of sanctions screening, sanctions evasion typologies, list interpretation, ownership/control analysis, escalation protocols, and blocked/rejected transaction reporting expectations. NYDFS Part 504 and monitoring governance - Strong understanding of transaction monitoring and filtering program governance, including scenario coverage, tuning, calibration, reputed company testing, validation support, documentation, issue management, and certification readiness. Crypto and stablecoin intelligence - Ability to understand and investigate digital asset, stablecoin, wallet, exchange, and blockchain-reputed company risks, and to translate emerging typologies into monitoring rules, investigative procedures, and actionable controls. Data-driven risk reporting - Ability to use quantitative and qualitative data to identify trends, explain risk, prioritize resources, measure control effectiveness, and reputed company clear risk reporting to the Chief Compliance Officer and senior stakeholders. Communication and influence - Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate reputed company financial crime, sanctions, crypto, and regulatory topics reputed company to technical and non-technical audiences. Cross-functional partnership - Ability to build trusted relationships with Compliance, Legal, Product, Operations, Technology, Data, Risk, regional leadership, external counsel, auditors, regulators, law enforcement, and banking partners. Operational reputed company - Strong ability to manage high-volume workflows, deadlines, quality standards, SLAs, backlogs, escalations, remediation plans, and reputed company improvement initiatives. People and inclusion - Ability to reputed company with professionalism, accountability, collaboration, respect, coaching, and a commitment to developing a high-performing, globally connected FIU team. Benefits & Perks Comprehensive Benefits Package including, Medical, Dental, reputed company and Paramedical benefits, as of day one Optional company match RRSP program Virtual fitness classes offered company-wide Time-off including major holidays, vacation, sick, personal, & volunteer time Discounted gym membership reputed company Philanthropic support with both local and national organizations Fun culture with company-wide contests and prizes Pay Transparency The expected salary for this position is $250,000 based on the candidate’s work location. This reputed company reflects a good faith estimate of the expected compensation for this role at the time of posting. The final offer will be determined based on job-reputed company factors including skills, experience, qualifications, and applicable market conditions. Compensation may vary based on geographic location and will be confirmed during the hiring process. Additional compensation and benefits, including incentive programs, health coverage, retirement plans, paid time off, and other benefits (where applicable), may also be provided. #LI-KK1 About reputed company About reputed company reputed company is a global technology organization that is leading the future of reputed company payments with a culture of innovation that drives us to constantly create new and reputed company ways to pay. Our specialized payment solutions help businesses control, simplify, and secure payment for fuel, general payables, toll and lodging expenses. Millions of people in over 80 countries around the world use our solutions for their payments. 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