VP, Global Head of Financial Crimes

🔥 16 hours ago

🌐 United States, United Kingdom – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

🗽 New York, Missouri – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote 🏰 Missouri – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🚨 AML and Financial Crime

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Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1973

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🛡️ Insurance

Consulting • Logistics • Insurance

Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated (RGA) is a leading global reinsurance company that focuses exclusively on life and health reinsurance solutions. With a strong commitment to providing innovative products and services, RGA helps its clients manage risk and enhance their insurance portfolios through its expertise in underwriting, claims management, and financial solutions. The company operates in multiple global markets, leveraging its extensive data and analytics capabilities to offer tailored solutions that meet the unique needs of the life and health insurance sectors.

📋 Description

• Serve as RGA's principal subject matter expert on financial crime legal requirements • Provide day-to-day guidance on AML, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption, fraud questions, screening alerts, escalations, and case-level determinations • Own technical determinations and documented rationale for complex sanctions and AML matters • Assess cross-border payments, restricted parties, ownership, licenses, permissions, and sanctions exposure in ceded and assumed business • Lead selection, implementation, tuning, testing, calibration, and quality assurance of screening and monitoring tools • Lead the build-out and maturation of a global, risk-based, technology-enabled financial crimes compliance program • Establish governance, monitoring, investigative, and reporting capabilities across global operations • Build and lead a high-performing global financial crimes team, including organizational design, talent acquisition, capability development, and succession planning • Establish and oversee AML, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption, fraud risk, and related financial crime policies, standards, procedures, and controls • Maintain alignment with global regulatory frameworks, industry best practices, and emerging technologies • Lead responses to regulatory inquiries, examinations, and audits; serve as point of contact for regulators and auditors • Partner with technology, operations, Enterprise Risk Management, Legal, Compliance, and Business Development teams • Develop and deliver financial crimes training and awareness programs • Oversee TPA, outsourcing, and vendor financial crime due diligence programs • Evaluate emerging financial crime risks in reinsurance markets

🎯 Requirements

• At least one current financial crimes certification is strongly preferred, such as CAMS, CGSS, CFCS, CFE, or an ICA Advanced Certificate or Diploma in Financial Crime Prevention, Sanctions Compliance or AML • Candidates without a certification should be prepared to obtain one within twelve months of appointment • JD or equivalent legal degree from an accredited law school preferred • 10+ years of compliance, financial crimes, AML, sanctions, fraud, or related risk management experience within insurance, reinsurance, banking, securities, or other regulated financial services organizations • Experience leading financial crimes, sanctions or related compliance programs within a large, complex global organization • Experience operating across multiple jurisdictions, managing diverse regulatory requirements, and engaging with regulators and executive leadership • Deep current, hands-on expertise interpreting and applying OFAC, EU, UK and UN sanctions regimes, AML laws, anti-bribery and corruption requirements, and related financial crime legal frameworks • Ability to reach and document technical determinations on live matters without routine reliance on external counsel • Proven success building and transforming enterprise financial crimes compliance programs within a large, complex, global organization • Working knowledge of international insurance or reinsurance and sanctions, AML and fraud risks arising in ceded and assumed business, or clear ability to acquire it quickly

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual bonus plan • Potential participation in a long-term equity incentive plan for eligible positions • Health benefits • Retirement benefits • Other employee benefits • Diverse, caring colleagues around the world • Respectful, welcoming environment that fosters individuality and pioneering thought • Career potential and global opportunities • AI-assisted preliminary screening with recruiter support throughout the process