Senior Sanctions Analyst

Our 2^nd line of defence Financial Crime team is pivotal in ensuring the Group complies with its sanction’s obligations.

The Senior Sanctions Analyst will have a critical role in supporting the Sanctions Manager in designing and implementing the Group’s sanctions oversight capabilities and approach, ensuring the sanctions risk is consistently identified and mitigated.

The role holder will be responsible working with all business areas to ensure the effective implementation of sanctions policies and standards. Equally, the will focus on raising sanctions risk awareness across the Group, through training and communications and supporting the Sanctions Manager in ensuring that sanctions risk is considered in the design and ongoing operation of our controls. Plus, provide advice on complex sanctions escalations.

To be successful in this role we require the following requirements:

Essential:

• You’ll have experience of all applicable sanction’s regimes including UK, EU and OFAC, within a retail banking environment, ideally within 2^nd line or within an escalations / complex case team.
• You’ll have experience of dealing with complex sanctions cases, proposing appropriate guidance on next steps supporting the Sanctions Manager
• You’ll be able to demonstrate how you’ve applied your sanctions experience – responding to horizon scanning, identifying sanctions trends and providing advice and guidance on these to business areas.
• You’ll have strong communications and team working skills, working in conjunction with business areas to ensure appropriate sanctions risk awareness.