Financial Crime Prevention Sanctions Officer

Your role

Do you want to protect the financial system from direct and indirect sanctions risk? Are you someone who likes to do the right thing? Do you know how to maintain independence and objectivity?

• review customers and payments for names on the global sanctions lists to ensure no transactions are being processed with the restricted parties on the lists.
• review and supervise real-time payment hit handling by second cut review team to assess sanctions alerts and decision appropriately
• perform searches of names on the global sanctions lists and ensure we have no accounts/clients at the Firm for the subjects named on the lists.
• perform background research on entities and/or individuals using databases such as Lexis, as well as the Internet and coordinate with Regional and Global Compliance, Operations or Business counterparts to obtain further information on clients/accounts
• perform sanctions controls testing respective to list updates, alerts investigation and system reviews
• identify and initiate list additions/updates and continuously monitor Sanctions regulatory developments
• manage payment/securities-trading cases in case management tool
• compile MI / metrics and participate in other ad hoc projects / assignments
• escalate unusual or suspicious activities
• complete UBS's annual BSA/AML/OFAC training

• Washington: the salary range for this role is $91000 to $114000
• Weehawken: the salary range for this role is $111000 to $144000

Full Time

323623

Nashville, Raleigh, Washington, Weehawken

We are currently seeking a Sanctions Officer who will be working within the Financial Crime Prevention Team. Our role is to assist UBS in the fight against money laundering, fraud, corruption and terrorist financing.

• ideally 4 year college degree or international equivalent
• ideally 5+ years of Sanctions/AML experience with a wealth management, broker dealer, retail and/or private bank, and/or correspondent bank
• experience in Microsoft Excel including use of v-look up, pivot tables and macros a plus
• prior knowledge and ability to execute a variety of other computer based and proprietary systems including, Lexis Nexis, Internet Explorer, other MS Office applications, and/or various compliance related and databases.
• excellent verbal/written skills as well as analytically and technologically advanced
• analytical / critical thinking skills, with the ability to provide practical solutions; able to prioritize a diverse workload with multiple deadlines
• result-oriented and assertive (you don’t shy away from challenging situations)
• detail-oriented with the ability to multi-task and change directions based on business demands
• self-starter abilities with the initiative to work independently, as well as with others

UBS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We respect and seek to empower each individual and support the diverse cultures, perspectives, skills and experiences within our workforce.