Manager, Sanctions Operations – BSA/AML

🕒 August 28

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $72k - $120k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🚨 AML and Financial Crime

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Pathward

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1001 - 5000 employees

🛡️ Insurance

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Insurance • Consulting • Logistics

Pathward is a federally registered financial institution that provides robust banking infrastructure, proven technology resource partners, and dynamic collaboration to assist third-party partners in delivering banking programs that meet customer demands. The company focuses on providing a variety of financial solutions including issuing, acquiring, digital payments, credit solutions, and professional tax solutions, among others. Additionally, Pathward supports commercial finance through working capital, equipment finance, structured finance, and insurance premium finance. Committed to financial inclusion, Pathward powers financial access and innovation through strategic partnerships, including efforts to support renewable energy loan growth.

📋 Description

• Manage daily operations of the OFAC, 314(a), and PEP screening queues within service standards • Supervise the Sanctions Operations Lead and analyst team; allocate workload to eliminate concentration of the escalation queue on a single analyst • Provide second-level review of screening dispositions and ensure documentation meets the five-element baseline • Monitor productivity and SLA metrics; reduce reliance on overtime and weekend working as new analyst capacity onboards • Manage the OFAC/314(a)/PEP escalation workflow and route true matches for blocking/reporting • Partner with the Manager, Sanctions Program on model changes, list updates, and testing affecting the operational queue • Support audit, independent testing, and OCC examination walkthroughs for sanctions operations • Apply product and transaction-party knowledge to understand and oversee screening alerts

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Criminal Justice, Accounting, or related field required • CAMS required; CGSS preferred • 5–8 years of BSA/AML or sanctions screening experience • 2+ years of people leadership in an operations or screening environment • Hands-on experience with OFAC/314(a)/PEP screening platforms (Bridger or comparable) and disposition workflows • Track record of holding SLAs and managing high-volume queues • Strong operational and queue-management discipline in a high-volume screening environment • Working knowledge of OFAC/sanctions regulations, 314(a), and PEP screening • People-leadership and workload-balancing skills; ability to remove single points of failure • Data-driven approach to SLA, productivity, and quality metrics • Clear, audit-ready written communication • Working knowledge of Pathward's card issuing/prepaid, acquiring, digital payments/faster payments, tax products, consumer lending, commercial finance, and commercial deposits products and related screening processes

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual performance-based incentive opportunity • Health insurance • 401(k) retirement benefits • Life insurance • Disability benefits • Paid time off • Comprehensive benefits package for eligible employees