Senior Manager, Sanctions Governance.

Role summary

Leadership and sanctions operations

• Manage a team that analyzes sanctions alerts and makes decisions in a timely and effective manner.
• Manage, monitor, and test screening tools, including Firco Continuity, Firco Trust, Firco Multi-Law System, and Firco List Management System.
• Handle correspondent banking queries about transactions and remittances flagged for international sanctions.

Sanctions advisory and awareness

• Identify relevant guidance from international sanctioning bodies and stay current on sanctions laws and regulations, including OFAC, EU, UK, UN, and NCTC sanctions.
• Advise senior management and related business functions on sanctions trends, emerging issues, remedial actions, and programme enhancements.
• Advise top management on high-risk transactions and consult external legal advisers on sanctions issues as required.
• Provide guidance to relevant Qatar financial intelligence and anti-money-laundering bodies as required.
• Raise compliance and sanctions issues during product approval processes.

Risk, controls, and review

• Recommend control improvements and identify sanctions-related training requirements.
• Analyze direct and indirect legal and reputational risks in high-risk transactions and customer onboarding, including periodic reviews.
• Assess sanctions impacts and develop appropriate mitigation strategies, policies, procedures, systems, and controls.
• Maintain internal sanctions watch lists and programme records.
• Review draft agreements and departmental policies, procedures, and manuals.
• Review risk participation contracts, international business deals, and high-risk customer account openings, and provide sanctions advice.

Role requirements

• The role is described as a leadership position with responsibility for bank-wide sanctions compliance and TBML programmes.
• The role manages a team responsible for sanctions alert analysis and decisions.
• The description calls for currency with sanctions laws and regulations, including OFAC, EU, UK, UN, and NCTC sanctions.
• The role requires assessing sanctions and TBML exposures and developing mitigation strategies and controls.