Manager, Sanctions Program – BSA/AML, Sanctions Operations

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🌵 Arizona, Kentucky, +4 more states – Remote

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💵 $72k - $120k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🚨 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

• Own the sanctions program workbook, including remediation commitments, program support, and OFAC procedure maintenance • Serve as business owner of the Bridger screening model, including documentation, periodic reviews, system and watchlist-file testing, and QA of Bridger errors, in partnership with Model Risk • Govern OFAC list updates across all cycles, prohibited-countries secondary reviews and memos, and blocked-property (ARBP) and FBAR filings • Lead OFAC-related risk assessments (BSA / OFAC / MLR) • Support Internal Audit, independent testing, and OCC examination activities • Maintain examiner-ready program artifacts and evidence of control operation • Coordinate responses to sanctions-related audit and examination requests • Partner with the Manager, Sanctions Operations to operationalize program changes without disrupting screening SLAs

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Criminal Justice, Accounting, or related field required • CAMS required • 7–10 years of BSA/AML or sanctions experience within a regulated financial institution • 3+ years of people leadership or program-management experience • Demonstrated ownership of OFAC/sanctions programs, screening-model governance (Bridger or comparable), and regulatory examination response • Experience with MRA/issue remediation and control documentation • Deep knowledge of OFAC/sanctions regulations, 314(a), PEP, and screening-model governance • Strong program-management, documentation, and issues-management discipline • Model-governance and effective-challenge orientation • Clear written and verbal communication with examiners, audit, and senior leadership • Collaborative across Sanctions Operations, Program Risk Management, Model Risk, and Internal Audit • Working knowledge of card issuing/prepaid products and program-manager delivery models • Working knowledge of acquiring and ATM sponsorship through ISOs and payment facilitators • Working knowledge of digital payments, faster payments, Visa Direct, and Mastercard Send • Working knowledge of tax products, consumer lending, commercial finance, and commercial deposits • Understanding of the Bank-vs-Program-Manager BSA/AML framework • CGSS strongly preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual performance-based incentive opportunity • Health insurance • 401(k) retirement benefits • Life insurance • Disability benefits • Paid time off • Comprehensive benefits package • Reasonable accommodation for applicants with disabilities under the ADA and applicable state or local laws