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Position Overview

Job Title Sanctions & Embargoes Americas, Advisory Lead

Corporate Title Vice President

Location New York

Overview

Deutsche Bank benefits from having a highly experienced and dedicated Anti-Financial Crime (AFC) function, which performs a crucial role in keeping Deutsche Bank’s business operations and global financial services clean from financial crime while serving the interests of the Bank and society. Our regional/global matrix structure allows for flexible responses to challenges in the core areas of: Anti-Money Laundering, Sanctions & Screening, Anti-Fraud, Bribery & Corruption, Investigations & Intelligence, Monitoring & Screening, and Risk Assessment.

Our AFC Team will provide you with opportunities to learn, grow and define your career. We foster an open, diverse, and inclusive team culture, that is engaged and well-supported for prosperity and enjoyment of a life/work balance.

What We Offer You

• A diverse and inclusive environment that embraces change, innovation, and collaboration
• A hybrid working model, allowing for in-office / work from home flexibility, generous vacation, personal and volunteer days
• Employee Resource Groups support an inclusive workplace for everyone and promote community engagement
• Competitive compensation packages including health and wellbeing benefits, retirement savings plans, parental leave, and family building benefits
• Educational resources, matching gift and volunteer programs

What You’ll Do

• Support the Head of Sanctions Advisory in protecting Deutsche Bank from legal, regulatory and reputational risk with regard to business involving sanctioned entities and/or countries
• Provide expert sanctions guidance on complex matters to the Business, as well as more junior colleagues, Continuously monitor relevant sanctions changes and propose actions based on materiality assessment of such changes
• Ensure diligent review of transaction-related requests and decide on these in full compliance with all applicable sanctions regulations as well as the Bank’s policies and procedures, Provide expert guidance on sanctions matters related to deal team activities, including review of deal sanctions risks, assessment of legal clauses and effective representations
• Review/decide on the adoption of new or existing clients with complex sanctions exposure, Support in the derivation of training needs related to sanctions matters, particularly those related to Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) regulations
• Support as key subject matter expert to teams handling sanctions-relevant reporting obligations, Investigate and respond to inquiries from regulatory authorities as well as internal or external auditors and business lines regarding embargo and sanctions observance, including matters that may need disclosure to OFAC

How You’ll Lead

• Interacting with Global Sanctions Policy & Governance colleagues
• Interacting with regional Sanctions Advisory Leads in the UKI, Germany/EMEA and APAC regions
• Interaction with key business leaders and other control functions across financial crime on relevant sanctions topics

Skills You’ll Need

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent required; JD or Master’s degree strongly preferred
• Extensive experience with large financial institution in compliance, legal or financial crime function. Expertise in sanctions regulations is required, with a focus on OFAC, as well as knowledge of EU and UK sanctions regimes
• Excellent written communication & presentation skills
• Ability to work across geographic & cultural boundaries to achieve organizational goals & objectives
• Ability to make decisions independently and escalate urgent matters to senior leaders with the appropriate key facts

Skills That Will Help You Excel

• Legal qualifications/experience highly desirable
• Ability to prioritize requirements to achieve regulatory or audit requirements
• Strong, independent self-starter & problem solver, collaborative team player
• Detail oriented and organized, as well as proactive in follow up on pending deliverables

Expectations

It is the Bank’s expectation that employees hired into this role will work in the New York office in accordance with the Bank’s hybrid working model.

Deutsche Bank provides reasonable accommodations to candidates and employees with a substantiated need based on disability and/or religion.

The salary range for this position in New York is $125,000 to $203,000. Actual salaries may be based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s skill set, experience, education, work location and other qualifications. Posted salary ranges do not include incentive compensation or any other type of renumeration.

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