Director, Global Financial Crimes Compliance Advisory and Export Control

About the Role

Grade Level (for internal use): 13

Director, Global Financial Crimes Compliance Advisory and Export Control

• The Director, Global Financial Crimes Compliance Advisory and Export Control will be responsible for providing second line of defense regulatory advice and execution oversight across sanctions, export controls, anti-money laundering (AML), and anti-bribery/anti-corruption (ABC) compliance topics.
• Your leadership will be instrumental in protecting S&P Global from financial crimes compliance regulatory, operational and reputational risks. You will ensure that financial crimes risks are proactively identified and addressed with the First Line of Defense, that compliance requirements are consistently implemented, and that the company’s reputation for integrity and trust is upheld in every market and business activity.
• The role will serve as a key advisor for New Product Approval (NPA) and strategic growth initiatives, ensuring financial crimes compliance requirements are designed, risk-assessed, approved, implemented, and validated for new solutions and geographic expansions.
• This role reports to the VP, Global Head of Financial Crimes Compliance within S&P Global Enterprise Risk & Priorization and partners closely with each of the enterprise Divisions, as well as corporate functions and first-line stakeholders globally.
• This role is key in ensuring the enterprise has a fit for purpose program that is in compliance with global financial crimes compliance laws and regulations.
• This role requires a combination of regulatory and technical knowledge, analysis, knowledge of businesses, project management skills and the ability to effectively collaborate across global functions and regions.

• Provide practical, risk-based regulatory advice on complex sanctions, export control, AML, and ABC matters to all S&P Global Divisions and Functions globally—including Energy, Market Intelligence, Indices, and Ratings.
• Design and translate complex financial crimes compliance standards into practical, scalable solutions that enable innovation while managing risk.
• Advise on higher-risk topics including restricted party and jurisdictional risk, customer/third-party risk, payment/use-case risk, data/content/service delivery risk, and cross-border operating considerations.
• Represent FCC in NPA forums and other commercialization/governance bodies across all S&P Global Divisions and Functions.
• Partner with Product, Technology, Legal, Risk, Privacy, Procurement, and Operations to ensure FCC requirements are embedded into design, including controls, workflows, documentation, and monitoring.
• Establish clear go/no-go criteria, escalation paths, and approval conditions for higher-risk initiatives; ensure decisions are documented and auditable.
• Support safe business execution while protecting the company from regulatory and reputational risk.
• Engage with Divisional Compliance and first line teams and corporate functions (e.g., Legal, Internal Audit, Technology, People, Finance, Procurement, Privacy, Security) to drive consistent FCC adoption and operationalization across all S&P Global Divisions and Functions.
• Lead cross-functional working groups as needed to resolve complex issues, remove blockers, and ensure consistent execution across regions.
• Partner across all Divisions and Functions to embed and continuously enhance financial crimes compliance within enterprise change initiatives (e.g., product enhancements, technology modernization, process re-engineering, operating model changes, vendor/third-party transformations, and geographic expansion readiness).
• Act as a strategic second-line advisor to help stakeholders design controls into workflows upfront ("build it in, not bolt it on"), aligning compliance requirements with business outcomes and operational practicality.
• Influence enterprise roadmaps by advocating for FCC needs in the planning cycle (e.g., intake, prioritization, design reviews, release governance), ensuring appropriate documentation, approvals, and sustainable ownership are in place.
• Proactively identify emerging risks, challenge and influence…