GFC External Risk Event Review Manager

About the role

Global Financial Crimes External Risk Event Review Manager is responsible for executing a risk-based review process to assess significant external financial crime risk events and assess relevance and exposure for the bank’s products, services, customers, and geographies. Key responsibilities include identifying and prioritizing such events, conducting exposure analyses, evaluating potential impacts to financial crime detection and investigative processes, and developing recommendations for program remediation or enhancement. Job expectations include exercising sound independent judgment, coordinating formal handoffs to accountable partners, tracking actions through closure, and communicating material risks, decisions, and progress to senior leaders and governance forums.

Responsibilities

• Identifies, prioritizes, and documents significant financial crime external risk events in accordance with established thresholds, procedures, and governance requirements.
• Conducts exposure analyses to assess potential impacts to the bank’s products, services, customers, geographies, financial crime detection, and investigative processes.
• Evaluates model performance, investigative outcomes, and process effectiveness to identify potential control gaps and enhancement opportunities.
• Develops risk-based recommendations, including model tuning, feature development, investigator training, risk escalation, or process changes.
• Coordinates formal handoffs to GFC and non-GFC partners and supports the opening of issues or other remediation actions, as appropriate.
• Maintains the external event and remediation inventory, monitors dependencies and milestones, and escalates material risks, delays, and decisions.
• Prepares clear analyses, recommendations, and governance materials for senior leadership and impacted stakeholders.
• Partners across model development, operations, investigations, technology, data, and risk management teams to drive consistent execution and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Minimum of seven years of relevant experience.
• Knowledge of anti-money laundering (AML) and related AML legislation.
• Minimum of seven years of relevant experience in financial crimes, model development or management, investigations, operations, process management, compliance, or operational risk.
• Demonstrated experience assessing financial crime models, investigative processes, or operational workflows and translating findings into actionable enhancements.
• Knowledge of anti-money laundering, sanctions, fraud, financial crime typologies, investigative practices, and related regulatory expectations.
• Experience managing complex processes from intake and analysis through recommendation, handoff, tracking, escalation, and closure.
• Ability to analyze complex information, identify root causes and risk implications, and exercise sound judgment within established frameworks.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to coordinate across technical, operational, investigative, and risk teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including preparation of concise materials for senior leadership and governance forums.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in related field.
• Experience in financial services and/or a related government entity.
• Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), PMP, or related certification.

Skills

• Critical Thinking
• Monitoring, Surveillance, and Testing
• Regulatory Compliance
• Risk Management
• Coaching
• Issue Management
• Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines Management
• Strategy Planning and Development
• Written Communications
• External Resource Management
• Reporting
• Talent Development

Schedule

1st shift (United States of America), 40 hours per week.