Compliance - Sanctions Officer - Sanctions Screening Associate

As part of Risk Management and Compliance, you are at the center of keeping JPMorgan Chase strong and resilient. You help the firm grow its business in a responsible way by anticipating new and emerging risks, and using your expert judgement to solve real-world challenges that impact our company, customers, and communities. Our culture in Risk Management and Compliance is all about thinking outside the box, challenging the status quo, and striving to be best-in-class.

Global Financial Crimes Compliance (GFCC) team is part of The Global Compliance & Regulatory Management department which is responsible for the provision of compliance services to the Firm. The Global Financial Crimes Compliance (GFCC) organization has over 700 staff members across the world. The team covers both global and business-aligned functions supporting the firm’s Anti-money laundering, Sanctions, and Anti-corruption programs and is led by the BSA/AML Officer and the AML Operations Executive

Job Responsibilities:

• You will be responsible for the completion of processes around regulatory driven sanction list or internally developed watch list.
• You will conduct searches of transactions and account holders looking for designated high risk clients and sanctioned transactions.
• You will partner with internal Lines of Business (LOBs) and OFAC,
• You will be responsible for all functions related to the restriction, blocking and unblocking of accounts/property.
• You will review blocked and rejected transactions from the various Compliance regions
• You will request and obtain applicable indemnities, consult with management and assist in the preparation of the daily, weekly and annual blocked property reports sent to OFAC.
• You are responsible for the monitoring, reporting, related to OFAC. This position also includes the process to
• You will determine if there is a true match to a suspect name, review, analysis and decisioning on wire transactions and specific issues escalated to/from internal business units.
• You will provide written and verbal communication on issues with management, the lines of business and Compliance units, performing and reviewing highly sensitive client and transaction search information, reporting, escalating and documenting results.
• You will occasionally travel and overtime may be required.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Must have 3-5 years of banking experience and at least 1 year of Compliance, legal or audit experience is highly desirable.
• Customer contact and service operations experience is a plus.
• Candidate must have strong written/verbal communication, leadership, proven high volume processing and analytical skills with the ability to work independently on multiple assignments simultaneously in a deadline driven, regulatory environment.
• Ability to maintain high quality in a risk intensive environment.
• Knowledge of SWIFT messaging and payment transactions is preferred.
• Demonstrate cross-line of business knowledge of banking systems and products.
• Possess strong computer skills: Microsoft Office Suite including Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint.
• Must be results oriented and have strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Excellent project management and presentation skills.
• Flexibility to work varying daytime hours to accommodate transactional, product, reporting and regional deadlines.
• Bachelor’s degree with an emphasis in Business Administration.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Experience with Alteryx, or other data tools is a plus
• AML, OFAC experience highly desirable..