Senior Enterprise Risk Management Manager

Remitly•Seattle, WA

2d•$168,000 - $200,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Remitly is looking for a Senior Enterprise Risk Management Manager to lead the team responsible for the due diligence, onboarding, and ongoing monitoring of Remitly's global disbursement network. You will report to our Deputy Chief Risk Officer and will manage the Partner Oversight team directly, including the Manager, Partner Oversight. You will work closely with Compliance, Sanctions Compliance, Global Money Movement, Business Development, and Treasury. You will be located in Seattle, WA. It is a hybrid role, with a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday in-office requirement.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in risk management, compliance, financial-crime compliance, third-party/vendor risk, or AML/sanctions roles, including due diligence on financial service providers, or banking counterparties.
3+ years of direct people-management experience, ideally leading a compliance, risk, or investigations team.
Working fluency with sanctions and adverse-media screening tools (e.g., ComplyAdvantage or equivalent), UBO/beneficial-ownership analysis.
Experience operating a due-diligence or risk program across multiple regulatory regimes and currencies, not only a single-market compliance function.
A track record of presenting to senior management or a governance committee, and of writing clearly for a non-specialist executive audience.
Bachelor's degree required
Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, often ambiguous environment, and confident making and defending independent risk decisions.

Nice To Haves

Masters Degree, MBA, or an equivalent preferred.

Responsibilities

Own execution of the Country Risk Assessment Framework.
Run formal due diligence on partners before onboarding to include AML/CFT program review, licensing checks, sanctions and PEP screening, adverse media, UBO identification, and financial-crime controls assessment.
Own the due diligence model, including onsite/offsite inquiries into downstream networks, and hold partners accountable for the transparency of their downstream network.
Run the periodic due diligence refresh program, the onsite/offsite visit cadence maintaining annual refresh cycle.
Own daily sanctions and adverse-media screening operations across partner network.
Participate in on-site engagements with key partners
Report exposures and resiliency plans to senior leadership and governance.
Escalate material partner events through the Issues Management framework.
Represent Partner Oversight as a standing attendee at the Counterparty Risk Committee, and own the monthly Partner Tracker and Watchlist reporting to senior management and governance.
Manage, coach, and grow the Partner Oversight team, and size the team and its tooling to the pace of network growth.
Exercise independent judgment on partners.
Look for opportunities to improve Partner Oversight processes and tooling as the network scales, and partner with Data and Engineering where automation would reduce risk or backlog.