Senior Manager: Trade Screening Operations

Cisco • Chicago, NC

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

This is an exciting opportunity to lead a critical function within Cisco’s Trade Legal and Compliance team. In this role, you will lead a team of professionals responsible for transaction screening, including restricted party, geolocation, end-use, and export authorization screening. You will play a vital role in crafting the policies and controls that govern our sales and service transactions, ensuring our IT tools operate efficiently at the speed of business, and providing strategic oversight on the health of our global screening program.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with 10 years' experience or Master's degree with 8 years' experience delivering business-minded solutions within a trade compliance, finance, law, supply chain, or logistics role.
• Proven experience leading and forming teams of compliance professionals.
• Demonstrated knowledge of U.S. and EU sanctions regulations and programs, the BIS Entity List, and other applicable denied party regimes.
• Experience developing, administering, and documenting transaction screening alert review procedures and training staff responsible for implementation.
• Familiarity with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) screening software tools (e.g., Oracle Global Trade Management, Global Trade Solution).

Nice To Haves

• ACAMS or similar sanctions certification is preferred.
• Knowledge of export license requirements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong project management and decision-making skills with the ability to balance quality of work with deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience collaborating closely with virtual teams and cross-functional stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of professionals responsible for transaction screening, including restricted party, geolocation, end-use, and export authorizations screening.
• Design, develop, and execute export and sanctions screening compliance reports, policies, practices, and controls for a wide variety of sales, service, and other transactions.
• Handle inquiries and critical issues from Cisco personnel regarding transaction screening status, results, and clearances, determining when escalation to senior management or trade counsel is required.
• Ensure internal IT tools are running efficiently and optimally to verify that compliant transactions are reviewed at the speed of business.
• Monitor Key Risk Indicators (KRIs), critical metrics, and complex screening analytics to provide regular reporting on the health of the transaction screening systems, tools, and processes.

Benefits

• U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
• U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies: 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
• Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
• Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
• For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees