Vice President, Auditor, Global Financial Crimes and Compliance

Location: New York

Vice President, Auditor, Global Financial Crimes and Compliance (GFC&C)
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We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Vice President, Auditor, Global Financial Crimes and Compliance (GFC&C) to join our Internal Audit team. This role is in either in New York, NY or Lake Mary, FL.

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:

Lead global FCC program initiatives, including policy, standards, control design, and operating effectiveness.
Drive end-to-end program leadership for surveillance enhancements: coverage and risk assessments, scenario design and tuning, lexicon/model calibration, threshold governance, QA frameworks, metric/KRI design, alert quality improvements, and sustainable remediation.
Oversee second line testing, continuous monitoring, and issue validation for surveillance controls; identify meaningful issues impacting business processes and challenge remediation plans to verify closure.
Partner with technology and model owners on surveillance platform governance (use-cases, data lineage/quality, thresholds, model risk considerations, periodic calibration, back-testing, and documentation).
Enhance reporting to compliance leadership and governance committees: KRIs/KCIs, thematic insights, root-cause analysis, and trend reporting for surveillance and GFC&C programs.
Contribute to the annual compliance plan, resource prioritization, and transformation roadmap across AML, Sanctions, Fraud, Anti-Bribery, and Surveillance.
Maintain up-to-date knowledge of industry best practices and evolving supervisory expectations, cascade training and guidance across regions and teams.
Carry out other ad hoc tasks and projects as directed by compliance senior management.

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:

7-10 years in banking/financial services, leading risk-based audits, thematic reviews, and global remediation programs across the U.S. and Europe; proven ability to embed data-driven testing and AI‑assisted controls to strengthen assurance, coverage, and issue validation.
Audit and compliance experience across Financial Crime (AML, Anti-Bribery & Corruption, Fraud) with a focus on assessing surveillance systems.
Cross-border execution in EMEA and U.S., including aligning audit plans and compliance controls to regional regulatory expectations; adept at harmonizing analytics use cases, data protection requirements, and AI documentation standards to support defendable audit findings and regulatory interactions.
Regulatory knowledge: U.S. frameworks (BSA, USA PATRIOT Act, FCA, OFAC, SEC/FINRA rules, FRB, OCC/CFPB, NFA/CFTC).
Practical expertise in surveillance and control testing: AML and economic sanctions scenario development, model calibration and threshold governance, alert QA, false positive reduction, coverage mapping, data quality controls, audit‑readiness documentation, and runbook management; complemented by audit validation of models (feature engineering reviews, drift monitoring, performance thresholds, and explainability testing).
Strong communication and teamwork skills.
Strong knowledge at translating complex analytics/AI outcomes into clear, risk‑based audit narratives, issue papers, and management action plans with measurable control improvements.
Deep understanding of governance, risk, and control frameworks across the three lines of defense; hands‑on experience with audit methodologies, continuous monitoring, and issue validation—integrating analytics/AI controls (data lineage,…