VP - Sanctions Team Lead

Rado Bank•Atlanta, NY

33d•Hybrid

About The Position

An exciting opportunity where collaboration drives impact within the Financial Crime Compliance department in the second line of responsibility. Work alongside customers, colleagues, and global teams to deliver meaningful, long-term results through continuous partnership and shared purpose. Our Shared Future: “What I value most in this role is the balance between strategic impact and hands-on problem solving—every day we’re protecting the bank and contributing to a safer financial system.” You and Your Job As a VP – Sanctions Team Lead you will be successful providing accurate, timely guidance and rationale for all escalations including holistic analyses on trades/shipments. Verifying potential name matches utilizing customer information on internal systems, and against third party open source or vendor systems used by Rabo Diversified Services. Assisting with various ad hoc projects as they arise and with updating the OFAC Sanctions procedures as needed. Providing training and guidance to the other analysts on the team as well as teams within Operations, and functioning as the backup for the North America Head of Sanctions. Assisting with regulatory exam responses and presentations.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree
10+ years of prior Sanctions experience at a financial institution, law firm, regulatory agency, professional services firm, or other similar work environment.
Analytical/Investigative skills to determine when an issue should be escalated.
Solid understanding of sanctions and AML risk identification and mitigation.
Leadership and strategic influence.
Supervisory skills for managing a department of widely varied skill sets.
Ability to interact with all levels of management.
Strong people skills, ability to empathize and also keep team workflow on track.
Ability to travel regionally, up to 10%
Legally authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
Rabobank is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.

Nice To Haves

CAMS certification or ACSS certification, preferred.

Responsibilities

Able to manage workload for the team to ensure deadlines are met.
Drafts clear client analyses and transaction and trade dispositions, and makes clear recommendations, if necessary.
Interacts with and influences a variety of stakeholders, including Operations teams and the Business.
Meet with, respond to, and remediate issues identified by Internal Audit, Compliance Testing Group, and Quality Control Team.
Comply with all US laws, rules and regulations, including without limitation, AML and OFAC Sanctions requirements and the escalation/reporting of suspicious activity (and all related policies, standards procedures and guidelines), as well as all Rabobank policies and standards.

Benefits

Medical, Dental and Vision plan coverages are effective on your date of hire. Rabo offers multiple plan options and a full network of providers to best meet your needs.
You can start participating in the 401(k) plan on your date of hire. Plus we match 50% of the first 6% you contribute to your 401(k) plan for US Employees. Rabo also contributes an additional 3% of your eligible pay in Safe Harbor contribution and up to 3% in annual Discretionary Profit Sharing contributions.
We offer a generous paid time off program to full time employees: up to 20 days of vacation time, 5 days of additional time off plus 7 sick days and 11 US holidays annually (based on hire date during the calendar year).
To do that, we offer both the time and financial support to give back to the community through our Dollars for Doers, Helping Hands and Gift Matching programs.
Workforce Well-Being supports a hybrid working model that offers the flexibility to split your time between home and the office—typically 2–3 days remote and the remaining days onsite—promoting both productivity and personal well-being.

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