Group sanctions and compliance specialist

This a Full Remote job, the offer is available from: EMEA

About Remote

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.

With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role.

We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.

If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!

What this job can offer you

This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global employment space, supporting Remote Group with Compliance and Sanctions expertise. You will help develop, maintain and improve over time sound procedures for vetting and monitoring our customers globally. Not only will you have the responsibility to introduce and implement innovative sanctions, anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-financing terrorism (CFT) compliance policies, systems and controls for our platform, you will also be relied upon to share guidance and expertise when supporting our on-boarding and transaction monitoring colleagues when dealing with escalations.

  • What you bring
  • Proven experience within compliance roles, ideally within the fintech/financial services sector and/or advising the same, with demonstrable experience in Financial Crime and Sanctions Compliance
  • Comprehensive knowledge of rules and regulations around AML, CFT, Sanctions regulations (knowledge across some or all of the following jurisdictions’ compliance requirements a plus: UK, EU, USA, Canada)
  • Previous experience in financial services second line Compliance roles; also having experience of first line Compliance Operations roles is a plus
  • Professional AML / compliance certifications
  • Demonstrates strong automation and AI capabilities.
  • Writes and speaks fluent English.
  • It's not required to have experience working remotely, but considered a plus.
  • Key Responsibilities
  • Ensure Remote’s activities remain compliant with new guidance and regulation on sanctions, AML and CFT
  • Identify compliance and sanctions risks faced by the Group and advise on strategies, systems, policies and controls to monitor and mitigate them
  • Act as second line escalation point for the on-boarding and transaction monitoring analyst teams
  • Support the wider Remote group with sanctions and AML/CFT risk assessments, advising as required
  • Draft/maintain/improve policies and procedures relating to customer due diligence, enhanced due diligence, screening measures, business-wide risk assessments, customer risk assessments, transaction monitoring, suspicious activity reporting, law enforcement engagement, fraud prevention, anti-bribery and corruption, sanctions compliance, and producing training/knowledge sharing on the same
  • Coordinate and execute AML/CTF audits for Remote group; manage day-to-day interactions with third party advisors on compliance matters
  • Responsible for ongoing oversight of control environment to ensure Remote group remains compliant with relevant regulations, its own policies, and good practice
  • Keep abreast of regulatory changes and update reporting processes accordingly
  • Practicals
  • You'll report to: Director, Compliance & Regulatory Affairs
  • Team: Risk Operations - Regulatory Compliance
  • Location:While we welcome applications from all locations, preference will be given to candidates based in EMEA or the US East Coast.
  • Start date: As soon as possible
  • Application process
  • Interview with recruiter
  • Interview with future manager
  • Interview with team members (no managers present)
  • Bar Raiser Interview
  • Prior employment verification check

Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use g

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