Connecting clients to markets – and talent to opportunity.

With 4,500+ employees and over 300,000 commercial, institutional, payments, and retail clients, we operate from more than 70 offices spread across six continents. As a Fortune 100, Nasdaq-listed provider, we connect clients to the global markets – focusing on innovation, human connection, and providing world-class products and services to all types of investors.

Whether you want to forge a career connecting our retail clients to potential trading opportunities, or ingrain yourself in the world of institutional investing, StoneX Group is made up of four business segments that offer endless potential for progression and growth.

Business Segment Overview:

Corporate: Engage in a deep variety of business-critical activities that keep our company running efficiently. From strategic marketing and financial management to human resources and operational oversight, you’ll have the opportunity to optimize processes and implement game-changing policies.

Position Purpose:

To ensure that Transaction sanctions screening is effective and in line with firm's financial crime framework and programme, ensuring high standards for operational efficiency and risk appetite are maintained; whilst assisting the firm to improve its overall transaction screening capabilities across the business. 

Primary duties will include: 

• To assit with the implementation and tailoring of screening rules tailored to the firm’s business profile.
• To review escalated and complex alerts, conducting in-depth investigations to resolve cases.
• To contribute to the creation of transaction screening policies and procedures and ensure implementation of improvements, and maintenance of standards.
• To help deliver sanctions education, awareness and training to the team and wider business as required, ensuring that new trends are identified and communicated.
• To ensure continuous calibration, gap analysis, risk assessment and testing reports to ensure effectiveness of transaction system and to ensure in line with industry standards.
• To oversee the preparation weekly & monthly MI and KPI reports to senior management team and key stakeholders.
• To play a key role in delivering transaction screening projects, collaborating with internal and external vendors to ensure successful rollout.
• To ensure adequate resources available to deliver targets and meet firm’s SLA. Proving training and assistance with recruitment if required.
• To develop and strengthen relationships with key project personnel and across group entities.
• Assistance with external and internal audit investigations and reports as required.
• Other duties as assigned from time to time

Knowledge and Experience

• Strong understanding of sanctions requirements in regulated financial institutions
• Strong knowledge of PSD2, MT103, ISO 200022 and other applicable relevant laws and regulations
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in sanctions systems implementation, calibration and fine tunning of sanctions models.
• Excellent critical thinking, with the ability to analyse situations and solve problems, delivering practical and compliant financial crime prevention risk management
• Knowledge of regulatory reporting and regulatory operations

Qualification and Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Law, or other appropriate discipline
• Efficient decision making skills with the ability to use judgement and operate autonomously when required
• Effective planning, organisational and time management skills
• Relationship building and communications skills
• Ability to proactively identify and analyse problems and design effective solutions, with the appropriate oversight and governance
• Able to use good judgement and experience to articulate and document decision making rationale
• Additional language skills would be an advantage in our global business environment.

Working environment:

• Hybrid
• Fixed Term Contract 18 Months