Director, Compliance – Aviation Partners

## Director, Compliance – Aviation Partners Apply:
Hybrid:
Miami, FL:
Full time:
Posted Today:
R-00348
** Department Description
** Carlyle Aviation Partners, which operates within the Global Credit segment as a subsidiary of The Carlyle Group, is an aviation-focused investment manager with $11.9 billion of assets under management as of June 30, 2026. With over 100 airline relationships and aircraft on lease in over 50 countries, Carlyle Aviation Partners provides financing solutions to the global aviation industry and seeks to generate favorable returns to investors across a variety of risk, return and liquidity profiles.

** Position Summary
** The Director will be responsible for the day-to-day administration and oversight of the Company’s anti-money laundering (“AML”), know-your-customer (“KYC”) and sanctions compliance processes, reporting to the Chief Compliance Officer. The Director will play a key role in assessing counter party and transaction risk, conducting and overseeing KYC and sanctions diligence, monitoring emerging compliance risks, and preparing materials to support governance and oversight activities.

This is an excellent opportunity for a candidate with experience in AML regulatory frameworks, investigative KYC diligence, sanctions compliance, risk assessments and compliance monitoring.

The Director will work closely with the Company’s commercial, legal, finance and compliance teams to support aviation transactions and ongoing portfolio activities while helping ensure adherence to applicable legal, regulatory and internal compliance requirements across multiple jurisdictions.  
** In-Office Requirement:
** 4 days per week  
** Primary Responsibilities
*** Conduct and oversee risk-based KYC diligence on aviation counter parties, including airlines, aircraft lessors, financing parties, investors, vendors and other transaction counter parties, in connection with new transactions and ongoing monitoring activities.
* Conduct beneficial ownership, control-person and source-of-funds diligence, as appropriate, and evaluate complex ownership structures and other heightened-risk circumstances.
* Conduct end-use diligence with respect to aircraft lessees, aircraft and engine buyers, component purchasers and other aviation counter parties.
* Conduct sanctions and restricted-party screening and assess potential sanctions, export-control, jurisdictional and reputational risks associated with counter parties and transactions.
* Identify and escalate higher-risk counter parties, transactions, jurisdictions and screening results, and prepare risk assessments and recommendations for review by the Chief Compliance Officer and other relevant stakeholders.
* Prepare KYC memoranda, risk assessments and other materials for boards of directors, committees and senior management to document diligence performed, identified risks, mitigating factors and adherence to Company policies.
* Prepare and coordinate responses to inbound KYC, AML and sanctions diligence requests from investors, lenders, financial institutions, transaction counter parties and other stakeholders.
* Administer and monitor counter party screening systems and conduct open-source research to identify sanctions developments, adverse media, changes in ownership or control, politically exposed persons and other emerging risk indicators.
* Support periodic and event-driven reviews of existing counter parties, including refreshes of KYC documentation, screening and risk assessments.
* Maintain complete and accurate compliance records within enterprise systems supporting aviation transactions and ensure appropriate documentation of diligence, approvals, exceptions and escalations.
* Assist with the development, implementation and periodic enhancement of AML,…