Vice President of Financial Intelligence Unit

Corpay • Atlanta, GA

46d • Hybrid

About The Position

The VP of Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) is a senior compliance leadership role responsible for Corpay's global FIU, sanctions escalation, and transaction monitoring operations across North America, UK, Europe and Asia Pacific. The VP owns the end-to-end process for live transaction monitoring and screening, post-transaction monitoring, investigations, regulatory reporting, typology intelligence, quality assurance, and risk reporting to the Chief Compliance Officer, Cross-Border Payments. The VP of FIU leads compliance FIU analysts globally and ensures that Corpay's FIU standards, processes, systems, and reporting remain aligned with global regulatory obligations, including U.S. MSB and state money transmitter obligations and other regional payment institution, e-money, remittance, foreign exchange, and regulated financial services requirements. This role is the primary subject matter expert for complex financial crime investigations, suspicious activity decisioning, sanctions escalations, stablecoin and cryptocurrency-related investigations, and monitoring program effectiveness, including governance for transaction monitoring and filtering programs.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, economics, criminal justice, law, data analytics, or a related field, or equivalent education and experience.
• At least 15 years of progressive experience in financial crime compliance, FIU leadership, AML/CFT investigations, sanctions, transaction monitoring, fraud investigations, or regulatory reporting; experience in a global financial institution is strongly preferred.
• At least 5 years of people leadership experience managing FIU, investigations, transaction monitoring, sanctions, fraud, or financial crime compliance analysts, preferably across multiple jurisdictions or regions.
• Strong knowledge of U.S. BSA/AML, OFAC sanctions, FinCEN SAR expectations, state money transmitter requirements, NYDFS Part 504, and global AML/CFT regulatory reporting frameworks, including SAR, STR, SMR, and equivalent reporting regimes.
• Demonstrated experience owning or materially contributing to transaction monitoring and sanctions screening program design, including rule/scenario development, risk assessment linkage, threshold tuning, calibration, segmentation, validation, data quality, and change control.
• Hands-on experience conducting, reviewing, and approving complex investigations and high-quality regulatory filings involving cross-border payments, foreign exchange, money transmission, remittance, e-money, fintech, commercial payments, or similar financial products.
• Experience or strong working familiarity with cryptocurrency, stablecoin, digital asset, blockchain, and virtual asset service provider investigations, including illicit finance typologies and the use of blockchain analytics tools.
• Deep understanding of sanctions programs and list-based screening, including OFAC, United Nations, European Union, United Kingdom, Canadian, Australian, and other relevant sanctions regimes, as applicable to a global payments business.
• Experience preparing risk reports, executive briefings, regulatory responses, audit materials, and board or senior management reporting for financial crime compliance topics.
• Demonstrated ability to operate in a fast-paced, high-volume, highly regulated environment while maintaining defensible decisioning, strong documentation, confidentiality, and sound risk judgment.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, especially Excel and PowerPoint.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree or law degree preferred.
• Professional certifications such as CAMS, CGSS, CFCS, CFE, ICA, or equivalent are preferred.
• Blockchain analytics or crypto investigations certifications from TRM Labs, Chainalysis, Elliptic, or similar providers are a plus.
• Experience with SQL, data visualization, case management, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, blockchain analytics, and workflow tools is preferred; familiarity with tools such as Oscilar, LexisNexis, Salesforce, TRM Labs, Chainalysis, or Elliptic is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Leading the global FIU function and providing direct leadership, coaching, prioritization, and performance oversight to FIU compliance analysts across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
• Owning the end-to-end live transaction monitoring/screening and post-transaction monitoring process, including alert triage, escalation, investigation, suspicious activity decisioning, case documentation, quality assurance, and timely closure.
• Overseeing all financial crime investigations, including matters involving money laundering, terrorist financing, fraud, sanctions evasion, proliferation financing, scams, mule activity, trade-based typologies, high-risk corridors, shell companies, and complex cross-border payment activity.
• Ensuring timely and accurate regulatory reporting, including SARs, STRs, SMRs, sanctions reports, blocked/rejected transaction reporting, law enforcement referrals, and other jurisdiction-specific reporting or escalation requirements, as applicable.
• Serving as Corpay's FIU subject matter expert for suspicious activity monitoring, regulatory reporting, investigations, case management standards, SAR/STR/SMR narrative quality, and investigative decision governance.
• Serving as the sanctions subject matter expert for FIU escalations, sanctions screening investigations, potential sanctions evasion typologies, hit dispositioning standards, OFAC and other sanctions authority expectations, and escalation protocols.
• Developing and maintaining global investigation standards, procedures, playbooks, typology libraries, escalation matrices, quality review methods, and management information for FIU activity.
• Partnering with Product, Operations, IT, Legal, Compliance Advisory, regional compliance directors, and banking partner teams to identify emerging financial crime risks and align monitoring controls to business activity and regulatory expectations.
• Supporting Corpay's entry into the stablecoin space by developing FIU investigative standards, alerting strategies, escalation procedures, and typology coverage for cryptocurrency and stablecoin-related activity, including wallet, exchange, virtual asset service provider, blockchain, and on-chain/off-chain risk indicators.
• Overseeing the use and enhancement of transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, case management, blockchain analytics, and data-driven investigative tools, including requirements for data coverage, workflow controls, evidence retention, and management reporting.
• Owning NYDFS Part 504-related transaction monitoring and filtering governance for Corpay's U.S. regulated MSB/money transmitter remit, including rule/scenario inventories, risk-based tuning, threshold calibration, validation support, change management, data integrity reviews, issue management, documentation, and annual certification support.
• Establishing and reporting FIU key performance indicators and key risk indicators, including alert volumes, backlogs, aging, case outcomes, SAR/STR/SMR volumes, sanctions escalations, high-risk typologies, quality assurance results, tuning/calibration outcomes, and remediation status.
• Providing periodic and ad hoc financial crime risk reports, thematic reviews, significant investigation summaries, and emerging risk briefings to the Chief Compliance Officer and other senior stakeholders.
• Leading responses to internal audit, regulatory examinations, law enforcement requests, banking partner due diligence, and compliance assurance reviews related to FIU investigations, transaction monitoring, regulatory reporting, and sanctions escalations.
• Promoting a culture of compliance, sound investigative judgment, continuous improvement, accountability, data-driven decisioning, and professional development within the global FIU team.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Benefits Package including, Medical, Dental, Vision and Paramedical benefits, as of day one
• Optional company match RRSP program
• Virtual fitness classes offered company-wide
• Time-off including major holidays, vacation, sick, personal, & volunteer time
• Discounted gym membership rate
• Philanthropic support with both local and national organizations
• Fun culture with company-wide contests and prizes

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive