Vice President of Financial Intelligence Unit

Role Overview

The VP of Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) is a senior compliance leadership role responsible for Corpay's global FIU, sanctions escalation, and transaction monitoring operations across North 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 and Cross‑Border Payments.

The VP of FIU leads compliance FIU analysts globally and ensures that Corpay's FIU standards, processes, systems and reporting remain aligned 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.

• Lead the global FIU function and provide direct leadership, coaching, prioritisation and performance oversight to FIU compliance analysts across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
• Own 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.
• Oversee all financial crime investigations, including matters involving money laundering, terrorist financing, fraud, sanctions evasion, proliferation financing, scams, mule activity, trade‑based typologies, high‑risk corridors, shell companies and complex cross‑border payment activity.
• Ensure 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.
• Serve as Corpay's FIU subject‑matter expert for suspicious activity monitoring, regulatory reporting, investigations, case management standards, SAR/STR/SMR narrative quality and investigative decision governance.
• Serve 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.
• Develop and maintain global investigation standards, procedures, playbooks, typology libraries, escalation matrices, quality review methods and management information for FIU activity.
• Partner 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.
• Support Corpay's entry into the stablecoin space by developing FIU investigative standards, alerting strategies, escalation procedures and typology coverage for cryptocurrency and stablecoin‑related activity, including wallet, exchange, virtual asset service provider, blockchain and on‑chain/off‑chain risk indicators.
• Oversee 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.
• Own NYDFS Part 504‑related transaction monitoring and filtering governance for Corpay's U.S. regulated MSB/money transmitter remit, including rule/scenario inventories, risk‑based tuning, threshold calibration, validation support, change management, data integrity reviews, issue management, documentation and annual certification support.
• Establish and report FIU key performance indicators and key risk indicators, including alert volumes, backlogs, aging, case outcomes, SAR/STR/SMR volumes, sanctions escalations, high‑risk typologies, quality assurance results, tuning/calibration outcomes and remediation status.
• Provide periodic and ad‑hoc financial crime risk reports, thematic reviews, significant investigation summaries and emerging risk briefings to the Chief Compliance Officer and other senior stakeholders.
• Lead responses to internal audit,…