GFC External Risk Event Review Manager
About The Position
The Global Financial Crimes External Risk Event Review Manager executes a risk-based review process to assess significant external financial crime risk events and determine their relevance and exposure for the bank’s products, services, customers, and geographies. The role identifies and prioritizes events, conducts exposure analyses, evaluates potential impacts on financial crime detection and investigative processes, and develops recommendations for program remediation or enhancement. The manager exercises independent judgment, coordinates formal handoffs to accountable partners, tracks actions through closure, and communicates material risks, decisions, and progress to senior leaders and governance forums. The role partners with teams across model development, operations, investigations, technology, data, and risk management to support consistent execution and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Minimum of seven years of relevant experience in financial crimes, model development or management, investigations, operations, process management, compliance, or operational risk.
- Knowledge of anti-money laundering (AML) and related AML legislation.
- Demonstrated experience assessing financial crime models, investigative processes, or operational workflows and translating findings into actionable enhancements.
- Knowledge of anti-money laundering, sanctions, fraud, financial crime typologies, investigative practices, and related regulatory expectations.
- Experience managing complex processes from intake and analysis through recommendation, handoff, tracking, escalation, and closure.
- Ability to analyze complex information, identify root causes and risk implications, and exercise sound judgment within established frameworks.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, including the ability to coordinate across technical, operational, investigative, and risk teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including preparation of concise materials for senior leadership and governance forums.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor's degree in a related field.
- Experience in financial services and/or a related government entity.
- Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), PMP, or related certification.
Responsibilities
- Identify, prioritize, and document significant financial crime external risk events according to established thresholds, procedures, and governance requirements.
- Conduct exposure analyses to assess potential impacts to the bank’s products, services, customers, geographies, financial crime detection, and investigative processes.
- Evaluate model performance, investigative outcomes, and process effectiveness to identify potential control gaps and enhancement opportunities.
- Develop risk-based recommendations, including model tuning, feature development, investigator training, risk escalation, or process changes.
- Coordinate formal handoffs to GFC and non-GFC partners and support the opening of issues or other remediation actions, as appropriate.
- Maintain the external event and remediation inventory; monitor dependencies and milestones; and escalate material risks, delays, and decisions.
- Prepare clear analyses, recommendations, and governance materials for senior leadership and impacted stakeholders.
- Partner across model development, operations, investigations, technology, data, and risk management teams to drive consistent execution and continuous improvement.
Benefits
- Paid time off.
- Industry-leading benefits and resources and support for employees.
- Eligible to participate in the annual discretionary incentive plan.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
