Senior Sanctions Analyst
Role Overview
Join the Group Compliance team as a Senior Sanctions Analyst reporting to the Global Head of Sanctions.
Provide practical sanctions analysis and internal advisory support for new and existing business relationships and global sanctions compliance.
The role supports consistent, risk-based decision-making across the Group's global office network.
Key Skills for This Role
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About the role
Join the Group Compliance team as a Senior Sanctions Analyst reporting to the Global Head of Sanctions.
Provide practical sanctions analysis and internal advisory support for new and existing business relationships and global sanctions compliance.
The role supports consistent, risk-based decision-making across the Group's global office network.
Sanctions analysis and advisory
- Assess sanctions risk involving clients, investors, beneficial owners, controllers, counterparties, intermediaries, transactions, and jurisdictions.
- Prepare written recommendations and escalation summaries for senior Compliance and first-line stakeholders.
- Promote consistent application of group standards while recognising local regulatory requirements and jurisdictional nuances.
Escalations and case management
- Triage sanctions queries, alert escalations, and potential issues and identify matters requiring escalation.
- Maintain sanctions advisory case files, audit trails, and supporting evidence for reviews, decisions, escalations, and closures.
- Track open sanctions matters to completion and follow up with business and local compliance stakeholders.
Relationship reviews
- Provide sanctions input into onboarding, periodic reviews, trigger-event reviews, and other lifecycle events.
- Share sanctions analysis and case information to support coordinated client, matter, and transaction risk assessments.
- Work with business contacts and local compliance teams to obtain information for sanctions analysis and risk-based decisions.
Policy and control support
- Monitor updates to UN, UK, EU, US, and applicable local sanctions regimes, lists, and guidance.
- Support group-wide sanctions policies, procedures, and guidance notes so they remain accurate and aligned with current requirements.
- Prepare FAQs, alerts, and guidance notes and assist with control testing, quality assurance, and process improvement.
Requirements
- Ability to provide practical sanctions analysis and internal advisory support for new and existing business relationships.
- Ability to assess sanctions risk involving clients, investors, beneficial owners, controllers, counterparties, intermediaries, transactions, and jurisdictions.
- Ability to conduct OSINT research, triage alerts and escalations, and maintain complete sanctions case documentation.
- Ability to apply global and local sanctions regimes while recognising jurisdictional regulatory requirements.
- Ability to prepare clear written recommendations, escalation summaries, audit trails, and supporting evidence.
- Ability to work with business contacts, compliance teams, and Legal colleagues to obtain information and support risk-based decisions.
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