[Remote] Vice President of Financial Intelligence Unit

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is a global technology organization leading the future of reputed company payments. The Vice President of Financial Intelligence Unit is a senior compliance leadership role responsible for overseeing reputed company's global FIU operations, ensuring compliance with regulatory obligations and leading a team of analysts in financial crime investigations.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, economics, criminal justice, law, data analytics, or a reputed company field, or equivalent education and experience
• 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
• 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
• Proficiency with reputed company Office applications, especially reputed company and PowerPoint
• Master's degree or law degree
• Experience in a global financial institution is strongly preferred
• 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
• Experience with SQL, data visualization, case management, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, blockchain analytics, and workflow tools is preferred
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Benefits

• 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

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