CONTRACTOR-Sanctions Screening & List Management Analyst

SoHo Dragon; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

SoHo Dragon is recruiting a Sanctions Screening & List Management Analyst to join a hybrid team in New York. The role focuses on implementing and upgrading sanctions screening software, managing lists, tuning rules, and collaborating with Compliance and Technology groups across geographies.

You will oversee process improvements, monitor key metrics, and ensure alignment with OFAC and EU sanctions laws while coordinating with global stakeholders and delivering timely updates to senior management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Experience with sanctions compliance and Fircosoft screening.
• Experience in project management and system development.
• OFAC sanctions screening, list management and tuning knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Represent US sanctions compliance in initiatives to implement or upgrade sanctions screening software.
• Liaise with groups in Paris on screening issues, including list management, rules, tuning, and exceptions.
• Oversee technology and operations on screening/list management issues, tuning, analytics, and data governance.
• Execute process and procedure improvements with commitments to targets and deadlines.
• Identify screening gaps and develop implementation plans.
• Develop metrics for daily and monthly oversight and reporting to senior management.
• Ensure screening aligns with OFAC/EU and applicable sanctions laws.
• Recommend tuning opportunities for lists and establish reviews of interdiction lists.

Skills

Sanctions Compliance

Policy interpretation

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

Fircosoft Continuity

Job description

Role: Sanctions Screening & List Management Analyst

Client: Investment Bank

Duration: 6-month contract

Location: New York, NY - Hybrid 4 days onsite

Start: ASAP

Key Responsibilities:

• Proactively represent US Sanctions Compliance in all initiatives to implement or upgrade sanctions screening software (Fircosoft Continuity)
• Liaise with Group Compliance and Technology teams in Paris on sanctions screening issues, including list management, rules, tuning and optimizations and good guys(exceptions)
• Oversight of Technology and Operations teams on issues related to sanctions screening and list management including tuning, analytics and data governance
• Execution of enhancements of processes and procedures with a commitment to consistency and successful implementation within the set targets and deadlines
• Identify potential screening gaps and develop implementation plans to address them.
• Develop and prepare key metrics for daily and monthly oversight and reporting to senior management.
• Ensure SGUS’s screening is in line with OFAC/EU and all other applicable sanctions laws and regulations.
• Recommend opportunities for tuning the sanctions screening lists with rules and good guys and develop structure for ongoing reviews of interdiction lists.

Profile

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Prior Sanctions Compliance experience, including Supporting Fircosoft screening application, List Management, and development of tuning/optimization rules.
• Prior experience within Project Management and system development and implementation
• OFAC Sanctions screening, List management and tuning technology project management

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to work closely with technology teams, explaining regulatory needs to system developers and technicians.
• Ability to work collaboratively within a complex organization, across multiple cultures, geographies, and disciplines.
• Ability to balance multiple, changing priorities in a dynamic and fast-moving working environment. Language