Compliance Senior Advisor - Hybrid - either Boston or Dallas

Compliance Senior Advisor – Hybrid – Boston OR Dallas

• Monitors activities to minimize the company's exposure to risk.
• Activities may include quantitative analysis, risk identification and remediation.
• Represents or supports the representation of the company to minimize compliance and regulatory risk by resolving issues and ensuring adherence to company and legal standards.
• Responsible for ensuring that all of the company's activities adhere to the necessary rules and regulations, and that the company complies with legal/regulatory statutes and jurisdictions.
• This position is hybrid, in office 3 days a week from Boston, MA; however, would also consider qualified candidates in the Dallas, TX metro area.

Essential Functions/Responsibility Statements:

• Advises management on current issues regarding banking.
• Serves as a subject matter expert to ensure documents, projects, processes, or systems initiatives comply with regulatory and legal requirements and enterprise policy.
• Partners with managers cross functionally to respond to BSA/AML or OFAC related reports issued by regulatory agencies or audit.
• Identifies systemic procedural, system and process weaknesses and additional training requirements needed to ensure compliance.
• Develops and executes system testing to ensure regulatory requirements and procedural requirements are met.
• Manages AML and/or OFAC related projects including development of project documentation such as business and technical requirements, testing strategies and testing closure reports.
• Collaborates across business units within the organization to ensure consistency in process and system functionality.
• Executes and directs system testing efforts to ensure desired outcome in alignment with business, technical, policy and regulatory requirements.
• Supports the model development team with necessary documentation and testing of systems/tools.
• Identifies compliance opportunities and potential solutions.
• Performs risk assessments, synthesizes analyses, identifies root cause(s), and provides recommendations to management on BSA/AML or OFAC tools and systems.
• Provides compliance input on business action plans, projects including system requirements or operational requests.
• Provides insight and guides management on issues.
• Leads and influence cross functional enterprise projects or compliance teams.
• Leads efforts to improve standardization and efficiency.
• Offers recommendations and makes project related decisions within scope of work assignment.
• Serves as a resource to team members on escalated issues include AML and/or OFAC system issues of unusual nature.
• Mentors and enhances compliance staff knowledge competencies.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education:

• Required: Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in Business, Finance, or equivalent degree
• Preferred: Master’s degree in Business, Finance, or equivalent field

Work Experience:

• 9+ Years Compliance, Legal, Regulatory, or Financial Services

Skills and Abilities:

• Advanced knowledge of regulatory compliance, relevant industry regulations and regulatory data sources.
• Demonstrated experience facilitating change to achieve measurable results.
• Demonstrated subject matter expertise compliance opportunities and resolution.
• Business Line awareness.
• Detail orientated with the ability to also understand overall strategy.
• Excellent interpersonal, supervisory, and customer service skills required.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent critical thinking skills with the ability to be adept in identifying and resolving complex risk management problems.
• Excellent project management skills.
• Ability to build and foster internal and external relationships.
• Sanctions screening system knowledge preferred.

Diversity & EEO Statements:

At Santander, we value and respect differences in our workforce and strive to increase the diversity of our teams. We actively encourage everyone to apply.

Santander is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Employer Rights:

This job description does not list all of the job duties of the job. You may be asked by your supervisors or managers to perform other duties. You may be evaluated in part based upon your performance of the tasks listed in this job description. The employer has the right to revise this job description at any time. This job description is not a contract for employment and either you or the employer may terminate at any time for any reason.

Primary Location: Boston, MA, Boston

Other Locations: Massachusetts-Boston,Texas-Dallas

Organization: Santander Holdings USA, Inc.