VP, Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) – BSA/AML & Sanctions Operations

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🌵 Arizona, Kentucky, +4 more states – Remote

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💵 $125k - $208k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 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 SAR and CTR filing program end-to-end, including timeliness, quality, continuing-activity monitoring, and FinCEN e-filing accuracy • Lead the internal SAR team, including SAR Lead/QA Reviewer and SAR/CTR filing analysts • Serve as relationship owner for domestic and international external/outsourced reviewers • Define and govern SOWs, SLAs, KPIs, milestone acceptance, and change control • Manage consultant escalations and ensure Pathward independently reviews and retains all filing and decisioning authority • Coordinate least-privilege access, data-handling, residency, and offboarding controls for consultant staff • Provide independent QA of consultant output and ensure third-party dispositions meet expectations • Ensure offshore activity complies with OFAC/sanctions, GLBA/privacy, and Information Security policy • Maintain examiner-ready artifacts documenting third-party supervision • Include consultant throughput and SAR volume in inventory wind-down reporting • Report program performance to the SVP, Deputy BSA Officer, and BSA Officer • Interface with Vendor Management, Third-Party Risk, Legal, Privacy, and Information Security • Govern review activity across card issuing/prepaid, tax products, acquiring, digital/faster payments, consumer lending, commercial finance, and commercial deposits • Ensure accurate SAR narratives, CTR filings, and tracing of activity through the bank-vs-program-manager escalation model

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree (MBA, JD, or Master's) preferred • CAMS required; CFE, CFCS, or CRCM preferred • 10+ years of BSA/AML experience, including direct SAR program ownership • 5+ years of people leadership, including leadership of investigators or filing teams • Demonstrated experience governing third-party/managed-service or outsourced review engagements, including offshore resources • Experience presenting SAR metrics and program performance to senior leadership, examiners, and the Board • Deep expertise in SAR/CTR filing standards, continuing-activity monitoring, and FinCEN requirements • Vendor/relationship governance: SOW/SLA design, quality assurance, and reliance documentation • Strong grasp of offshore data-residency, GLBA/privacy, InfoSec, and OFAC/sanctions-nexus risk • Ability to evidence Pathward's supervision of outsourced work to an examiner standard • Executive communication and cross-functional leadership across Legal, Privacy, InfoSec, and Vendor Management • Deep product-level knowledge of funds flows, typologies, and party designations across Pathward's seven product categories and program-manager model

🏖️ 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