Global Financial Crimes Firco Continuity Director; AVP

Global Financial Crimes (GFC): FIRCO Continuity Specialist – Director (AVP)

In the Legal & Compliance division we assist the Firm in achieving its business objectives by facilitating and overseeing the Firm's management of legal, regulatory and franchise risk. This is a Director level position within the Global Screening Team.

• Oversee daily health checks, continuity controls, and performance monitoring for FIRCO Name and Transaction Screening platforms.
• Maintain configuration libraries, watchlists, hotlists, and filter settings to ensure consistency and integrity across regions.
• Conduct root‑cause analysis of system failures, stoppages, latency issues, and false positive spikes.
• Ensure sanctions screening coverage is monitored and reported upon, and is aligned with the Firm's risk appetite, identifying, logging and escalating any gaps.
• Support development, testing, and deployment of screening rules and filter logic to enhance detection and reduce noise.
• Manage test data creation (fudge data), scenario validation, and regression testing, mirroring processes in rule‑writing and sanctions model oversight.
• Prepare summaries, status reporting, and thematic issue logs for senior management and governance forums; retain governance documentation to support audits, regulatory examinations, and internal assurance reviews.
• Partner with GFC SMEs, Sanctions Compliance, AML IT, Operations, and Business Units for continuity planning, system enhancement, and change management.
• Manage an effective team of functional specialists overseeing the ongoing maintenance of the Firco tool.

• 5+ years of experience in sanctions screening, AML screening operations, filtering systems (e.g., FIRCO Continuity/Trust), or broader financial crime technology roles.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Computer Science, or related field (advanced degree preferred).
• Experience with List Management / List testing initiatives – involving sanctions regulatory lists (OFAC, UN, EU, etc.) and company‑specific/internal lists.
• Experience conducting or overseeing system testing and tuning in a financial institution.
• Background in due diligence, corporate intelligence, or KYC/AML preferred.
• Strong understanding of sanctions programs (OFAC, OFSI, EU, UN) and AML/KYC principles.
• Familiarity with screening models, fuzzy matching algorithms, configuration and data quality controls.
• Proficiency with SQL, Excel, Fircosoft FMM & FML tools (or similar) and analysis of large datasets.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to produce clear summaries for senior stakeholders.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate across regions and business units.
• High attention to detail and a structured approach to documentation.

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