Financial Crimes Manager

Description

The Financial Crimes Manager leadsthe execution of financial crimes risk management activities designed to identify, assess, monitor, and mitigate fraud, anti-money laundering (AML), sanctions, and related financial crime risks across the organization. The position oversees daily program operations, control effectiveness, investigations, monitoring activities, and regulatory compliance obligations while ensuring alignment with enterprise risk management frameworks. This role partners with business leaders and control functions to strengthen risk controls, address emerging threats, and maintain compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and internal standards.

The position contributes to the organization’s strategic objectives by promoting a strong risk culture and minimizing financial crimes exposure.

The Financial Crimes Manager leadsthe execution of financial crimes risk management activities designed to identify, assess, monitor, and mitigate fraud, anti-money laundering (AML), sanctions, and related financial crime risks across the organization. The position oversees daily program operations, control effectiveness, investigations, monitoring activities, and regulatory compliance obligations while ensuring alignment with enterprise risk management frameworks. This role partners with business leaders and control functions to strengthen risk controls, address emerging threats, and maintain compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and internal standards.

The position contributes to the organization’s strategic objectives by promoting a strong risk culture and minimizing financial crimes exposure. Here’s what you can expect from the job and what you need to be successful:

• Manage the day-to-day execution of financial crimes programs, including fraud risk management, transaction monitoring, investigations, sanctions compliance, and suspicious activity reporting.
• Lead and develop a team of financial crimes professionals, establishing priorities, monitoring performance, and fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee the effectiveness of financial crimes controls, monitoring activities, quality assurance processes, and remediation efforts to ensure risks remain within established risk appetite thresholds.
• Review and evaluate complex investigations, alerts, suspicious activity cases, sanctions reviews, and escalations to ensure appropriate disposition and regulatory compliance.
• Partner with business units, operations, compliance, legal, information security, and enterprise risk management teams to identify and mitigate emerging financial crimes risks.
• Support implementation of financial crimes policies, procedures, standards, and controls while ensuring consistent application across business processes and channels.
• Conduct risk assessments, thematic reviews, and control evaluations to identify gaps, recommend corrective actions, and strengthen the control environment.
• Monitor key risk indicators, performance metrics, and trend analyses to identify emerging risks and provide actionable recommendations to leadership.
• Support regulatory examinations, internal audits, and independent reviews by coordinating responses, providing documentation, and facilitating remediation activities.
• Evaluate new products, services, technology implementations, and third‑party relationships for potential financial crimes risks and recommend appropriate controls.
• Ensure data integrity, reporting accuracy, and timely completion of regulatory filings and reporting requirements.
• Prepare and deliver management reporting, risk dashboards, and presentations that communicate program effectiveness, emerging threats, and key risk trends.
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