SANCTIONS COMPLIANCE FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE UNIT HEAD

Meta; New York (NY); On-site; USD 170,000 - 242,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks a head for their Sanctions Compliance Financial Intelligence Unit in New York. The role involves overseeing investigations to ensure compliance with international sanctions and managing a team of investigators. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in financial crime investigations and strong regulatory knowledge.

Benefits

Bonus

Equity

Comprehensive benefits

Qualifications

• 12+ years in financial crime investigations, overseeing sanctions investigations.
• 5+ years managing compliance investigations team.
• Experience leading cross-functional projects.

Responsibilities

• Oversee sanctions related investigations ensuring compliance.
• Manage and train a team of investigators.
• Monitor investigations and assess sanctions risk.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Communication

Education

Bachelors degree in political science

Advanced degree in related subjects

Job description

Sanctions Compliance Financial Intelligence Unit Head

As a leader on the Meta FinTech Sanctions Compliance Team, you will be managing and supervising a team conducting sanctions related investigations in order to protect Meta’s platforms from being abused by sanctioned actors. In carrying out this work, you will perform and direct investigations and enforcement actions, oversee and set standards for sanctions investigation and escalations management processes, and implement technical solutions to support investigations and the oversight of screening alerts. At times, you will work collaboratively with a dynamic group of internal and cross-functional stakeholders, including but not limited to Legal, Product, Engineering, Finance and Marketing. In doing so, you will help Meta to achieve its mission to "make the world more open and connected" while maintaining its commitment to sanctions compliance.Meta is committed to complying with international and U.S. sanctions laws and regulations. These governing laws and regulations may include without limitation the rules and regulations overseen by the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) and other international sanctions regimes and bodies.

Sanctions Compliance Financial Intelligence Unit Head Responsibilities

Apply sanctions regulatory knowledge and investigative acumen to overseeing sanctions related investigations across Meta’s products, services and business operations, ensuring compliance with applicable policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.

Manage and supervise a team of investigators, providing guidance, coaching and training to ensure effective investigative output and ongoing career development.

Monitor investigations volumes across First and Second Lines of Defense, ensuring alerts are investigated within established service level agreements (SLAs)

Oversee quality results across First and Second Lines of Defense to hold sanctions investigations to sufficiently high standards

Oversee the performance of complex investigations, often in collaboration with Cross Functional partners, involving high volumes of accounts and data sets in order to assess sanctions risk and enforce against accounts at scale

Stay updated on sanctions regulations, guidelines, and risks to enhance investigations processes

Understand Meta’s products, services and business operations, as well as the sanctions control ecosystem, in order to ensure investigations are performed and enforcement actions are taken accurately and comprehensively

Provide the requirements for data-driven solutions and tooling to enhance the efficiency of investigations across Meta’s products, services and business operations

Brief leadership on complex and sensitive investigative results and their impact to Meta’s sanctions compliance program

Monitor trends and patterns across investigations to identify potential solutions to mitigate risks

Create and maintain documentation to enhance and bring clarity to how investigations are conducted at Meta

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelors degree in political science, international policy, and / or business management related subjects

12+ years of experience in financial crime investigations, including dedicated experience overseeing sanctions investigations, solid sanctions regulatory expertise, experience of applying sanctions knowledge during product / business risk evaluation, and in-depth understanding of sanctions screening systems and processes

5+ years’ experience in managing a compliance investigations team

Experience leading cross-functional projects, demonstrating impact, and influencing organizational change

Experience interacting with cross-functional teams and leaders of a large company

Highly skilled at analytical thinking and documentation

Polished problem solving and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

Advanced degree in political science, international policy, and / or business management related subjects

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About Meta

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

170,000 / year to $242,000 / year + bonus + equity + benefits

Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.

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