Compliance Analyst I - Sanctions

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Job Description

The world of finance moves fast. At FIS, we're faster. Our teams are empowered to learn, grow, and make an impact-in their careers and communities. We deliver innovation that advances the way the world pays, banks and invests. If you want to grow personally and professionally, we'd like to know: Are you FIS?

About the role:

Track, review and communicate pending and passed regulations, agency guidelines or directives to impacted lines of business and assist in setting priorities for regulatory issues that must be addressed by the business.

About the team:

The Global AML and Sanctions Compliance Team is responsible for preventing, managing and mitigating the financial crime risks that may occur through the types of services we offer, transactions we process or the customers we onboard. Our goal is to be a be a trusted and independent second line of defense control function, in order to protect FIS from financial crime risks.

What you will be doing:
* Monitors and communicates regulatory changes that impact FIS products, services and business activities.
* Maintains knowledge of applicable laws and regulations.
* Offers guidance on implementing regulatory changes.
* Communicates detailed requirements to LOB, validate solution approach and monitor status.
* Provides compliance reviews and direction for new and expanding products and services.
* Responds to issues and matters pertaining to regulatory compliance of FIS products, services and business activities.
* Performs periodic reviews and evaluations of FIS products, services and business activities to validate compliance with applicable laws and regulations or detect regulatory violations, weak controls or other potential areas of exposure.
* Conducts compliance assessments and provides direction on any deficiencies detected by those assessments.
* Meets with business unit Compliance Officers on a regular basis for status updates on compliance issues.
* Monitors LOB compliance activities to verify that regulatory compliance deadlines and requirements are met.
* Tracks and validates product compliance deficiencies to completion.
* Participates in development of compliance sessions/presentations.
* Participates in training promoting compliance awareness.
* Identifies areas of potential improvement.
* Provides updates for periodic reports.
* Interfaces with legal counsel and federal, state and local agencies, as needed to address regulatory or compliance issues, concerns or questions.
* Assists the business with responses to customer compliance-specific questions and concerns.
* Participates with and/or leads customer focus and advisory groups.
* Prepares and approves internal and customer communications covering compliance issues (bulletins, position statements, monthly reports, etc.

What you will need:
Bachelor's degree in business administration or law or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience. Typically requires a minimum of one year experience in the regulatory compliance field and must be knowledgeable in at least one area of regulatory compliance such as banking regulations, consumer reporting, tax, anti-money laundering or anti-corruption.

* Communicates ideas both verbally and in written form in a clear, concise, and professional manner
* Comprehensive knowledge of at least one substantive area of compliance, such as banking regulations, anti-money laundering, or anti-corruption
* Excellent analytical skills
* Ability to understand technical documents and legal or regulatory reference materials
* Ability to understand and apply learned concepts
* Demonstrated ability to plan and complete work within tight time limitations
* Ability to apply creative problem solving techniques and tools to compliance issues
* Ability to follow and conduct a compliance monitoring program

Added bonus if you have:

* Ability to provide information to a variety of audiences and deal effectively with confidential issues that are sensitive in nature
* Ability to share information with awareness of its effect on others

What we offer you:
At FIS, we hire the best. In return, you receive exceptional benefits including:
* Opportunities to innovate in fintech
* Tools for personal and professional growth
* Inclusive and diverse work environment
* Resources to invest in your community
* Competitive salary and benefits

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EEOC Statement

FIS is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here supplement document available here

For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will be required to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

Sourcing Model

Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.

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