Senior Vice President – Sanctions List Management - BNY Mellon

Overview

Senior Vice President – Sanctions List Management

At BNY, our culture empowers you to grow and succeed. As a leading global financial services company at the center of the world’s financial system we touch nearly 20% of the world’s investible assets. Every day around the globe, our 50,000+ employees bring the power of their perspective to the table to create solutions with our clients that benefit businesses, communities, and people everywhere.     

We continue to be a leader in the industry, awarded as a top home for innovators and for creating an inclusive workplace. Through our unique ideas and talents, together we help make money work for the world. This is what #LifeAtBNY is all about.

We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Senior Vice President, Sanctions List Management to join the Global Sanctions Operations team. This role is located in Lake Mary, FL or Pittsburgh, PA or - Hybrid Work Model. 

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways: 

• Lead a team of List Management Analysts in charge of the organization and maintenance of various internal and external sanctions lists.
• Oversee the mandatory Regulatory, Sanctions and Internal list management updates that are completed daily.
• Partner with Senior Management and the Global Sanctions Compliance team to ensure appropriate approvals are received and documented for any sanctions list changes.
• Oversee the team to make sure all list update quality assurance and reconciliation procedures are performed per policy; ensuring all control steps are completed and meeting procedure and policy guidelines.
• Maintain responsibility for ongoing enhancements of vendor provided watchlists to identify missing or outdated entries on an ongoing basis.
• Overseeing the team’s implementation of new, updated, or modified entries to vendor provided sanctions lists.
• Oversee quality control reviews of all activities involved in list updates to all sanctions filter systems. Primarily responsible for the accuracy and quality of own work. Work contributes to the achievement of team goals.
• Maintain records of sanctions screening list updates, quality reviews, and list update/upload approvals in accordance with applicable recordkeeping and record retention requirements.
• Support audit/validation requests for the filter and alert monitoring systems
• Work with the Testing and Tuning team to provide secondary support for the creation and approval of rules and exceptions.
• Support general sanctions operations activities and other duties, as needed. 

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following: 

• Bachelors degree or the equivalent combination of education and experience is required.
• 7-10 years of total work experience and at least 1-3 years of management experience preferred. 
• Applicable local/regional licenses or certifications as required by the business.
• 10-12 years of combined work experience within Financial Services, Audit, and/or Compliance preferred
• 1 or more years of Sanctions experience preferred.
• Knowledge of Sanctions List Management preferred
• Knowledge of LexisNexis Bridger and Fircosoft systems are a plus

At BNY, our culture speaks for itself. Here’s a few of our awards: 

• America’s Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2024
• World’s Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2024
• Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Corporate Equality Index, 100% score, 2023-2024
• Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion, Disability: IN – 100% score, 2023-2024
• “Most Just Companies”, Just Capital and CNBC, 2024
• Dow Jones Sustainability Indices, Top performing company for Sustainability, 2024
• Bloomberg’s Gender Equality Index (GEI), 2023

Our Benefits and Rewards:

BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life’s journey. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, that can support you and your family through moments that matter. 

BNY is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer - Underrepresented racial and ethnic groups/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

Employer Description:

For over 230 years, the people of BNY Mellon have been at the forefront of finance, expanding the financial markets while supporting investors throughout the investment lifecycle. BNY Mellon can act as a single point of contact for clients looking to create, trade, hold, manage, service, distribute or restructure investments and safeguards nearly one-fifth of the world's financial assets. BNY Mellon remains one of the safest, most trusted and admired companies. Every day our employees make their mark by helping clients better manage and service their financial assets around the world. Whether providing financial services for institutions, corporations or individual investors, clients count on the people of BNY Mellon across time zones and in 35 countries and more than 100 markets. It's the collective ambition, innovative thinking and exceptionally focused client service paired with a commitment to doing what is right that continues to set us apart. Make your mark: bnymellon.com/careers.

EEO Statement:

BNY Mellon is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Minorities/Females/Individuals With Disabilities/Protected Veterans. Our ambition is to build the best global team – one that is representative and inclusive of the diverse talent, clients and communities we work with and serve – and to empower our team to do their best work. We support wellbeing and a balanced life, and offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies and employee forums.