Manager Financial Crimes Risk Controls Transformation Job at Amex (New York)

Manager, Guardian PMO Financial Crimes

This role is critical to the successful delivery of Guardian, a high-priority, e...

Location

United States , New York

Salary:

89250.00 - 150250.00 USD / Year

Amex

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Highly motivated, proactive self-starter with demonstrated ability to deliver strategic thought leadership and lead complex, cross-functional transformation initiatives
Proven success operating in fast-paced, highly matrixed environments, with the agility to manage ambiguity, shifting priorities, and competing demands while maintaining focus on outcomes
Exceptional program and project management expertise, with strong execution discipline and the ability to drive results through influence rather than authority
Working knowledge of Financial Crimes risk and control frameworks, with experience supporting large-scale transformation or remediation initiatives that strengthen governance, controls, and sustainable risk management outcomes
Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills, with a track record of effective engagement with senior leaders and enterprise partners
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex topics and influence decision-making across diverse stakeholder groups
Resilient, solutions-oriented mindset with the ability to navigate challenges with professionalism and composure
Minimum of 5 years’ experience in project or program management, preferably within a large, global, and highly regulated organization
Bachelor's degree
Experience with Financial Crimes

Job Responsibility

Lead and oversee the end-to-end GMNS cross-functional Guardian workplan, ensuring disciplined execution, effective risk management, and timely delivery of all critical program milestones and outcomes
Serve as the central program management function for Guardian, acting as a trusted conduit between GMNS executive sponsors, business leads, and workstream owners to ensure alignment, transparency, and cohesive delivery
Provide strategic PMO oversight and active support to the Financial Crimes workstream, a critical enabler of Guardian’s success, ensuring strong integration with broader risk & control objectives
Partner closely with CLM Leadership, Control Management, Legal Entity Governance, Network & Acquiring Solutions, Financial Crimes, and Second Line of Defense (2LOD) teams to drive enterprise alignment and execution
Drive senior-level communication and reporting, including progress updates, milestone tracking, risk and dependency management, and escalation of key issues and decision points to enable timely resolution
Champion change management efforts, supporting clear, effective communication strategies and stakeholder engagement plans to drive adoption and embed sustainable ways of working
Strengthen organizational alignment across GMNS and the enterprise by identifying interdependencies, managing cross-functional linkages, and proactively addressing execution risks
Support and lead Guardian PMO governance forums, represent GMNS in enterprise-level committees (e.g., Operational Risk Management Committee), and contribute insights to relevant Communities of Practice
Establish and maintain rigorous program governance and documentation standards, ensuring all key artifacts, approvals, and evidence of completion are captured in line with Enterprise PMO and regulatory expectations

What we offer

Competitive base salaries
Bonus incentives
6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits
Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
Career development and training opportunities

Fulltime

Project Manager, Compliance Transformation

Location

Singapore , Singapore

Salary:

Not provided

Nicoll Curtin

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

8–12+ years of experience in project or program management, preferably within consulting or financial services
Proven experience delivering compliance, regulatory, or risk transformation programs in Banking & Financial Services
Strong understanding of regulatory frameworks and compliance requirements (e.g., AML/KYC, regulatory reporting, conduct risk, financial crime, or prudential regulations)
Experience working with compliance, risk, and control functions within financial institutions
Demonstrated ability to manage complex stakeholder environments, including senior and executive leadership
Strong planning, organization, and problem-solving capabilities
Experience leading cross-functional teams and managing large-scale change initiatives
Familiarity with structured delivery methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid)
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job Responsibility

Lead end-to-end delivery of compliance and regulatory transformation initiatives across Banking & Financial Services clients
Define project scope, timelines, budgets, and resource plans, ensuring alignment with regulatory priorities and business objectives
Work closely with client stakeholders across compliance, risk, legal, and operations functions
Translate regulatory requirements into structured programs, operating models, and implementation plans
Drive implementation of compliance change initiatives (e.g., regulatory remediation, control enhancements, policy and process transformation)
Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure seamless execution across business and support functions
Establish and manage project governance frameworks, including risk, issue, and dependency management
Ensure adherence to applicable regulatory requirements, internal policies, and audit expectations
Support stakeholder alignment and drive change adoption across impacted teams
Provide regular updates to senior stakeholders, highlighting progress, risks, and key decisions

Fulltime

Financial Crime Transformation Lead

Compliance is a broad, multidisciplinary function at Barclays that oversees our ...

Location

United Kingdom , London; Northampton; Glasgow

Salary:

Not provided

Barclays

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Identification and assessment of compliance risks through thorough reviews of business activities, changes, processes, testing and systems
Identification and investigation of potential market abuse, including but not limited to, Insider Dealing, Unlawful Disclosure, Market Manipulation or Anti-Competitive Conduct
Conduct investigation of compliance risk events or breaches
Oversight and check and challenge of corrective actions and preventative measures to avoid future occurrences
Implementation of compliance policies and procedures in line with regulatory requirements and ensuring that the bank’s internal policies are aligned with international standards, including jurisdictional requirements
Collaboration with 1LOD, other relevant Compliance teams and legal, and relevant risk management functions to facilitate a comprehensive approach to compliance and risk management
Identification, investigation and oversight of potential money laundering, terrorist financing or other financial crime
To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change
Plan resources, budgets, and policies
manage and maintain policies/ processes

Job Responsibility

To provide data-led expert oversight and check and challenge on business and compliance matters to evidence that the organisation is operating in a compliance with Barclays legal, regulatory and ethical responsibilities

What we offer

Hybrid working
Structured approach to hybrid working with fixed 'anchor' days
Supportive and inclusive culture and environment
Commitment to flexible working arrangements
Encouragement to embrace mobility and explore operations to build career
Opportunity to learn from a globally diverse mix of colleagues

Fulltime

Senior Data Scientist, AI & Model Risk

It all started with an idea at Block in 2013. Initially built to take the pain o...

Location

United States , Bay Area

Salary:

139000.00 - 225000.00 USD / Year

Cash App

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

A minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field
or 3 years and a Master’s degree
or a PhD without experience
or equivalent work experience in risk management, model risk management, or AI risk management
Proficiency in Python or similar languages for evaluating AI system behavior, writing test scripts, or analyzing model outputs
Strong understanding of generative AI architectures
Including LLMs, transformer models, RAG systems, and agentic AI, plus hands-on experience interacting with and critically evaluating these systems, sufficient to assess design decisions, output quality, and limitations
Understanding of interagency model risk management principles, including SR 26-2
Knowledge of AI testing methodologies, ex. functional testing, bias testing, adversarial testing, and performance monitoring plus familiarity with data privacy and security principles (encryption, access controls, data classification)
Excellent written and verbal communication and the ability to translate complex technical AI concepts for non-technical stakeholders, senior management, and regulators

Job Responsibility

Lead end-to-end AI Risk Assessments for generative AI and LLM use cases across the Bank
Embedding in Block's enterprise-wide GenAI review process, coordinating cross-functional SMEs (Legal, Compliance, InfoSec, Data Governance, MRM, ERM, BRC, TPRM, Financial Crimes), and managing timelines to ensure reviews are completed within SLA
Review AI system design and documentation
Including retrieval sources, assumptions, limitations, fallback plans, guardrail configurations, and change management procedures — across banking use cases such as fraud detection, BSA/AML compliance, credit decisioning, and customer-facing applications, ensuring governance controls are commensurate with each use case's risk profile
Assess pre-deployment testing for adequacy inclusive of output integrity, hallucination detection, boundary and edge case testing, ethical and safety guardrails, bias testing, A/B testing, volume testing, and UAT — designing and conducting independent testing as needed
Evaluate ongoing monitoring plans for comprehensiveness - including accuracy, hallucination rates, drift detection, sensitive data controls, reliability metrics, CSAT, acceptable performance ranges, and documented remediation procedures
Develop and maintain templates, tools, and procedures to support the effectiveness and scalability of the AI Risk Governance Program
Monitor the evolving regulatory landscape for AI in banking — including FFIEC IT Examination Handbook standards, FDIC Financial Institution Letters, interagency statements, and the anticipated RFI on AI model risk management referenced in SR 26-2 — and incorporate emerging guidance into the AI risk governance program
support SFS's response to regulatory inquiries as needed

What we offer

Remote work
medical insurance
flexible time off
retirement savings plans
modern family planning

Fulltime

Model/Anlys/Valid Officer

Location

United States , Tampa

Salary:

130449.69 - 180218.00 USD / Year

Citi

Expiration Date

August 03, 2026

Requirements

Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Engineering (any), Data Science, Business Analytics, Mathematics, or related quantitative field
1 year of experience as a Data Analyst, Business Analyst, Banking Analyst, Officer, or related position involving AML and KYC risk and control procedures for banking services
Alternatively, will accept a Bachelor’s degree in the stated fields and 3 years of the specified experience
Fraud detection for money laundering/terrorist financing
Customer risk scoring and transaction monitoring rules and models for AML, KYC
Business Intelligence, Data Visualization for risk assessment, data reporting and KPI dashboards
Exploratory data analysis including empirical data distributions, data reconciliation, missing data imputation, and outlier analysis
Statistical analysis including sampling and supervised and unsupervised machine learning
Analytical programming using SQL,SAS, Python, Spark and Hadoop Ecosystem, VBA in Excel, XML

Job Responsibility

Apply quantitative and qualitative data analysis methods to extract, transform and analyze AML/KYC data using SAS, R programming, Python, and SQL
Perform validation of the bank’s KYC customer risk scoring tools and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) transaction monitoring tools to ensure regulatory compliance and establish risk and controls across multiple regions and lines of business, including Retail, Institutional, Credit Cards, Markets and Private Banking
Develop, enhance and validate quantitative methodologies for measuring and analyzing financial crimes risk – AML/KYC, ensuring the rule-based and machine learning (supervised and unsupervised) techniques are robust and effective
Serve the bank’s lines of defense by providing effective challenge to AML/KYC monitoring tools throughout their lifecycle, ensuring that conceptual soundness, technical specifications, data quality, and performance are validated in accordance with regulatory requirements
Evaluate theoretical construction and implementation of tools, challenging mathematical formulation, variables selection, threshold setting and code using statistical tests, ensuring assumptions and limitations are documented to assess fit-for-purpose
Data preparation and validation for modeling and analysis, handling of missing values and outliers, variable transformations, and feature pre-selection for tool stability
Automate data extraction and data preprocessing tasks, perform ad hoc data analyses, design and maintain complex data manipulation processes using Python
Establish robust controls around data quality, continuous monitoring of data quality flowing into AML tools
checks for completeness, anomalies, drifts, and integrity within core banking and data systems Mantas and EAP/Hadoop
Execute threshold analysis to evaluate and optimize production thresholds for AML monitoring scenarios, exploring data distributions and coverage analysis using SAS, R, Python or SQL to emulate and simulate tool logic

What we offer

medical, dental & vision coverage
401(k)
life, accident, and disability insurance
wellness programs
paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays

Fulltime

Senior Data Scientist, AI & Model Risk

It all started with an idea at Block in 2013. Initially built to take the pain o...

Location

United States , New York

Salary:

139000.00 - 225000.00 USD / Year

Cash App

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

A minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field
or 3 years and a Master’s degree
or a PhD without experience
or equivalent work experience in risk management, model risk management, or AI risk management
Proficiency in Python or similar languages for evaluating AI system behavior, writing test scripts, or analyzing model outputs
Strong understanding of generative AI architectures
Including LLMs, transformer models, RAG systems, and agentic AI, plus hands-on experience interacting with and critically evaluating these systems, sufficient to assess design decisions, output quality, and limitations
Understanding of interagency model risk management principles, including SR 26-2
Knowledge of AI testing methodologies, ex. functional testing, bias testing, adversarial testing, and performance monitoring plus familiarity with data privacy and security principles (encryption, access controls, data classification)
Excellent written and verbal communication and the ability to translate complex technical AI concepts for non-technical stakeholders, senior management, and regulators

Job Responsibility

Lead end-to-end AI Risk Assessments for generative AI and LLM use cases across the Bank
Embedding in Block's enterprise-wide GenAI review process, coordinating cross-functional SMEs (Legal, Compliance, InfoSec, Data Governance, MRM, ERM, BRC, TPRM, Financial Crimes), and managing timelines to ensure reviews are completed within SLA
Review AI system design and documentation
Including retrieval sources, assumptions, limitations, fallback plans, guardrail configurations, and change management procedures — across banking use cases such as fraud detection, BSA/AML compliance, credit decisioning, and customer-facing applications, ensuring governance controls are commensurate with each use case's risk profile
Assess pre-deployment testing for adequacy inclusive of output integrity, hallucination detection, boundary and edge case testing, ethical and safety guardrails, bias testing, A/B testing, volume testing, and UAT — designing and conducting independent testing as needed
Evaluate ongoing monitoring plans for comprehensiveness - including accuracy, hallucination rates, drift detection, sensitive data controls, reliability metrics, CSAT, acceptable performance ranges, and documented remediation procedures
Develop and maintain templates, tools, and procedures to support the effectiveness and scalability of the AI Risk Governance Program
Monitor the evolving regulatory landscape for AI in banking — including FFIEC IT Examination Handbook standards, FDIC Financial Institution Letters, interagency statements, and the anticipated RFI on AI model risk management referenced in SR 26-2 — and incorporate emerging guidance into the AI risk governance program
support SFS's response to regulatory inquiries as needed

What we offer

Remote work
medical insurance
flexible time off
retirement savings plans
modern family planning

Fulltime

Strategy Risk and Control Lead

We are seeking an experienced Strategy, Risk & Control Lead to join the Run the ...

Location

United Kingdom , Knutsford; Glasgow

Salary:

Not provided

Barclays

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Experience in technology service management including incident, problem, and change management using the ITIL framework with ServiceNow
Exceptional stakeholder management, data-driven problem solving, and the ability to negotiate and influence across cross-functional teams
Subject matter expertise in at least one of: project management, risk & control, strategy & transformation, or resilience.

Job Responsibility

Lead and deliver strategic initiatives across business priorities, operating models, and governance frameworks, providing project management oversight to ensure clear accountability and execution
Translate high-level executive vision into operational execution through executive storytelling and program governance
Drive and balance cross-functional programs aimed at operational excellence, cost-efficiency, resilience, and risk & control enhancements
Ensure strong governance, control, and high-quality reporting across the portfolio, maintaining full adherence to Barclays’ internal control standards.

What we offer

Competitive holiday allowance
Life assurance
Private medical care
Pension contribution

Fulltime

Compliance Testing and Monitoring Officer

Summary: This role positions you as a critical line of defense in a major bankin...

Location

United States Of America , NEW YORK

Salary:

145000.00 - 160000.00 USD / Year

Crédit Agricole

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

At least 7 years' experience in the financial services industry with a focus on compliance
5 years of Audit or Compliance Testing experience required, with a focus on capital market
Good knowledge of risks and controls, including analyzing risks, identifying and documenting controls, and assessing control design and operating effectiveness
Strong knowledge of areas such as capital markets, debt capital markets, investment banking, and corporate banking coverage as well as broker-dealer / swap dealer regulatory framework such as SEC, FINRA, NFA, CFTC
General knowledge of one or more of other banking products/services and regulations preferred: Banking regulations, Business Conducts (Anti-Bribery & Corruption, Whistleblowing, Conflicts of Interest, Conduct Risks, Fraud risks etc.), Financial Crime (AML, Sanctions/OFAC), Other regulations (privacy, tax compliance, cybersecurity etc.)
Ability to manage multiple projects using technology and analytic techniques (advanced in excel) to work effectively and efficiently in a fast-paced environment
Strong attention to details and analytical skills
Ability to work with minimum supervisions and prioritize multiple tasks to focus on meeting the expected timelines
Good communication skills to be able to present clearly and concisely to all levels of stakeholders
Ability to engage with stakeholders and build rapport and partnership with stakeholders

Job Responsibility

Strategic Testing Leadership: Orchestrate high-impact compliance reviews across diverse banking operations, serving as the architect of the Annual Compliance Testing Plan. You'll design and execute sophisticated testing strategies that safeguard organizational integrity while enabling business growth
Craft Compelling Compliance Narratives: Transform complex regulatory findings into crystal-clear documentation that tells the story. Your work papers won't just meet third-party standards—they'll set the benchmark for clarity, thoroughness, and professional excellence that auditors and regulators applaud
Detective Work That Drives Change: Uncover hidden risks and decode the 'why' behind compliance gaps. You're not just identifying issues—you're the investigative force that traces problems to their source and architects innovative solutions that strengthen the entire organization
Command the Boardroom: Present your findings to the people who matter most: Department Heads, the Chief Compliance Officer, and the Executive Committee. Your insights shape strategy, influence policy, and drive decision-making at the highest organizational levels
Author Reports That Move Mountains: Draft executive-level reports that don't just inform—they inspire action. Your communications bridge the gap between technical compliance and business strategy, making complex regulatory matters accessible and actionable for senior leadership
Own the Accountability Engine: Be the driving force ensuring nothing falls through the cracks. Track issues from discovery to resolution, holding action owners accountable and maintaining the momentum that turns findings into fixed processes
Validate Victory: Close the loop with authority. Verify remediation effectiveness, document successful closures, and provide the validation memos that give leadership confidence in the organization's compliance posture
Monitor What Matters: Execute strategic monitoring activities that keep the organization ahead of regulatory curves. Your proactive surveillance identifies emerging risks before they become problems, positioning the bank as a compliance leader rather than a follower
Empowered: Every testing review you conduct, every report you author, and every issue you resolve strengthens the organization's reputation, protects its assets, and advances your career as a trusted compliance authority
Be the Intelligence Hub: Serve as the vital communication nexus between frontline execution and executive leadership. Your proactive status updates don't just report progress—they provide strategic visibility that enables leadership to make informed decisions, allocate resources effectively, and maintain organizational agility in a dynamic regulatory environment

Fulltime

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