Alexander Barnes is leading the search for experienced Sanctions Specialists and Subject Matter Experts to join a high growth, regulated fintech operating across international consumer and merchant markets. This is an excellent opportunity for a sanctions professional who enjoys combining operational oversight, complex investigations, stakeholder management, and process improvement within a fast paced, highly regulated environment.
Key responsibilities
- Acting as a subject matter expert for sanctions screening and investigations across multiple international markets.
- Overseeing the end to end sanctions screening process and ensuring operational excellence.
- Managing vendor and outsourced partner performance, quality standards, and escalation.
- Handling complex and high risk sanctions cases and providing expert guidance on decision making.
- Driving continuous improvements to sanctions controls, frameworks, and operational processes.
- Working closely with Compliance, Legal, Risk, and MLRO stakeholders to support regulatory obligations and audits.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of sanctions experience within financial services, fintech, banking, payments, or other regulated environments.
- Deep knowledge of global sanctions regimes including UK, EU, UN, OFAC, and other international frameworks.
- Strong sanctions investigation and screening expertise.
- Experience with sanctions screening platforms such as World Check, LexisNexis, Fircosoft, or similar.
- Ability to assess complex cases, make risk based decisions, and clearly document outcomes.
- Previous experience managing outsourced operations or vendor relationships.
Highly desirable
- Experience supporting regulatory audits and examinations.
- Knowledge of adverse media screening and open source intelligence techniques.
- Experience developing procedures, controls, and training materials.
