GFC Manager - Global Markets
This job is responsible for executing substantive money laundering, economic sanctions and fraud compliance and operational risk practices. Key responsibilities include working directly or through compliance officers for the Front Line Units (FLUs) and Control Functions (CFs) to complete compliance, policy, operational/fraud risk management requirements.
Responsibilities:
- Advises and directs the development and maintenance of financial crimes owned policies and standards, and reviews relevant Front Line Units/Control Functions-owned policies and standards to ensure that regulatory requirements and operational risks are appropriately addressed
- Produces and/or oversees independent financial crimes risk management reporting to Global Compliance & Operational Risk (GC&OR) Senior Leaders and FLU/CF Senior Leaders
- Monitors the changes in regulations applicable to Global Financial Crimes, including advising business leaders, directing the appropriate areas to implement or amend policies, standards, procedures and/or processes to address regulatory requirements, and challenging the implementation plan as needed
- Participates in industry forums and monitors regulatory expectations, emerging legislation and regulation, political scrutiny, litigation and key influencers to identify and mitigate emerging risks
- Escalates financial crimes related compliance and operational risks and issues to appropriate governance routines, management/board level committees
- Identifies, aggregates, reports, escalates, inspects, and challenges the remediation and thematic analysis of FLU/CF-owned issues and control enhancements related to financial crimes
- Reviews and challenges internal and external operational loss events, including the development of remediation plans to strengthen controls and providing oversight to ensure they are addressed appropriately
Required Skills:
- Minimum 7 years experience
- Strong understanding of global markets products and services, including foreign exchange, fixed income, equities, derivatives, and structured products.
- Awareness of financial crime risks specific to markets activities, such as market abuse, insider trading, spoofing, layering, and misuse of information.
- Understanding of money laundering and sanctions risks in trading and capital markets, including risks arising from third-party intermediaries, client onboarding, and complex transaction structures.
- Knowledge of front-to-back trade flows and how trading desks, sales, operations, and compliance interact across the product lifecycle.
- Familiarity with client due diligence (CDD) and counterparty risk assessments tailored to institutional clients, hedge funds, and broker-dealers.
- Working knowledge of regulatory and industry frameworks, such as MAR, MiFID II, Dodd-Frank, FATF, and local AML/CTF requirements applicable to capital markets.
- Conceptual understanding of surveillance and financial crime detection models, including trade surveillance, communications monitoring, and transaction monitoring systems ability to interpret outputs and assess model limitations.
- Ability to connect business activity patterns to potential financial crime indicators, ensuring that controls are risk-based and proportionate to product and client profiles.
- Proven ability to work independently and collaboratively across trading, compliance, risk, and operations functions to identify and mitigate financial crime risks.
- Strong analytical and communication skills, with the capacity to explain complex risk and model concepts to non-specialist stakeholders.
Skills:
- Critical Thinking
- Monitoring, Surveillance, and Testing
- Regulatory Compliance
- Risk Management
- Issue Management
- Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines Management
- Strategy Planning and Development
- Written Communications
- External Resource Management
- Reporting
Shift: 1st shift (United States of America)
Hours Per Week: 40
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