Job Description
At BNY, our culture empowers you to grow and succeed. As a leading global financial services company at the center of the world’s financial system we touch nearly 20% of the world’s investible assets. Every day around the globe, our 50,000+ employees bring the power of their perspective to the table to create solutions with our clients that benefit businesses, communities and people everywhere.
We continue to be a leader in the industry, awarded as a top home for innovators and for creating an inclusive workplace. Through our unique ideas and talents, together we help make money work for the world. This is what is all about.
We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Vice President to join our Global Payments – Sanctions Screening Ops/Investigations team. This role is located in MANCHESTER (UK) – HYBRID.
In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:
- Manages staff involved in reviewing and decisioning sanctions alerts, investigations and monitoring global issues, risks and events.
- Provide expertise in the area and have a thorough knowledge of Sanctions Screening process and adhere to Compliance and regulatory guidelines.
- Identify and resolve a variety of potentially high impact issues through applying Subject Matter Expertise and evaluating complex business processes, systems and industry standards.
- Managing relationships and working with Operations, Technology, Product, Risk & Control to improve the experience for all stakeholders and clients.
- Responsible for achievement of function goals. Ensures team is equipped to operate and attain team goals.
- Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating consideration for the firm’s reputation, safeguarding its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations all whilst adhering to company Policy.
- Applying sound ethical judgement regarding personal behaviour, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.
- Delivering on continuous process improvement initiatives across all areas of responsibility.
- Analyse, define and prioritize business requirements and functional or operational specifications for moderate to large projects of increasing complexity.
- Provide consultation to IT and business management on technology applications to support business opportunities and cross-functional system implementations.
- Develop project scope, objectives, constraints, and assumptions, and plan development proposals including resource requirements.
- Participate in and guide the development of functional requirements and user documentation.
- Consult internal business groups on requirements, functional architecture, and implementation strategies.
- Apply knowledge of regulatory, legal requirements, and corporate policies involving risk and control to improve business processes through technology.
To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:
- 5+ years of relevant working experience leading Operations teams in the Financial Crime domain.
- Subject Matter Expertise in Sanctions screening in Financial Services/ banking.
- Demonstrable knowledge of key global Sanctions regulations (US, EU, UK).
- Demonstrable skills in data analytics, rule/exception identification and implementation in relation to sanction screening.
- The candidate must be a highly self-motivated and high performing, with a track record of driving others to meet those same high standards.
- Must be able to handle all levels of complexity in their domain, be able to multi-task with relative ease by collaborating with multiple teams.
- Demonstrated line management experience in Operations; and Project management skills will be advantageous.
- Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication with stakeholders.
- A track record of improving & streamlining processes, following industry recognised methodologies.
At BNY, our culture speaks for itself. Here’s a few of our awards:
America’s Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2024
World’s Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2024
Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Corporate Equality Index, 100% score, 2023-2024
Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion, Disability: IN – 100% score, 2023-2024
“Most Just Companies”, Just Capital and CNBC, 2024
Dow Jones Sustainability Indices, Top performing company for Sustainability, 2024
Bloomberg’s Gender Equality Index (GEI), 2023
Our Benefits And Rewards
BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life’s journey. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, that can support you and your family through moments that matter.
BNY is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer - Underrepresented racial and ethnic groups/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.
