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Head of Department

• Own the global transaction monitoring policy and standards for scenario design, thresholds, tuning, model validation, documentation, and change control
• Set procedural standards for regional and operational teams and oversee jurisdictional variations
• Maintain control documentation and evidence for examiners, auditors, and partner bank due diligence
• Own the transaction monitoring coverage methodology across typologies, products, geographies, channels, and payment rails
• Maintain coverage assessments and identify, quantify, prioritize, and remediate coverage gaps and false negative exposure
• Direct scenario strategy, including what is built, retired, retuned, or replaced
• Establish signal intake and convert regulatory, examination, partner, regional, investigations, and industry intelligence into coverage decisions
• Assess regulatory changes, new products, corridors, payment rails, and partner arrangements for monitoring implications
• Define and operate effectiveness metrics, including alert quality, escalation and conversion rates, scenario yield, tuning outcomes, and reporting quality
• Own tuning and optimization cycles and document threshold-change rationale
• Partner with Compliance Assurance, Internal Audit, model risk, Data Science, Engineering, Product, global operations, and Regional Compliance Officers
• Report program health, coverage posture, and material gaps to the Chief Compliance Officer, executive leadership, and board-level oversight
• Represent the monitoring program to regulators, examiners, partner banks, and auditors
• Lead and develop the monitoring policy, coverage methodology, scenario strategy, and tuning functions

Head of Global Transaction Monitoring

Program Manager

• Serve as a subject matter and program expert within the Sanctions Compliance Program
• Act as a subject matter authority and primary escalation point for sanctions queries across global teams
• Translate program strategy into structured workplans with milestones and owners
• Prepare executive-facing briefing materials for senior leadership, the board, banking partners, and regulators
• Stand in for the Global Head of Sanctions in working-level meetings
• Own corrective actions from regulatory inquiries, audits, and self-identified gaps through closure
• Lead complex remediation projects and maintain audit trails
• Maintain the sanctions issues register and escalate aging items
• Liaise with Controls Testing and Internal Audit, owning evidence collection and exam-readiness
• Track findings through closure and identify systemic program-level gaps
• Adjudicate escalated sanctions alerts against OFAC, UN, EU, UK, and other applicable lists
• Own the sanctions policy lifecycle and provide requirements for Operations SOPs
• Review and approve sanctions training content and lead company-wide training refreshes
• Draft sanctions control intake requests and translate regulatory requirements into technical specifications
• Identify control requirements arising from new products, corridor expansions, and regulatory developments
• Maintain the sanctions controls library
• Lead execution of the annual Sanctions RCSA
• Manage KPIs/KRIs and produce governance reporting for MBR, board-level deliverables, and banking partners
• Monitor sanctions regulatory developments and provide intelligence briefings
• Assess implications of new regulations, general licenses, and enforcement actions for screening architecture and controls
• Serve as the internal resource on sanctions matters

Head of Global Transaction Monitoring

Program Manager – Sanctions Compliance