Compliance Analyst (Sanctions Compliance)

The Compliance Analyst is responsible for conducting sanctions and watchlist screening activities to support the organization’s compliance with applicable regulatory requirements and internal policies. The role involves reviewing alerts, identifying potential matches, performing investigations, documenting findings, and escalating true matches or high-risk cases as appropriate.

This role plays a critical part in helping mitigate regulatory, financial, and reputational risk to the organization.

Responsibilities

• Conduct sanctions screening reviews for customers, brokers, vendors, transactions, and other applicable entities using approved screening tools and systems.
• Review and analyze alerts generated from sanctions and watchlist screening systems.
• Investigate potential matches against global sanctions lists including OFAC and other regulatory or internal watchlists.
• Determine whether alerts are false positives or require escal...