Manager, Sanctions Evasion

**Job Summary**

**What is the opportunity?**

**What will you do?**
- Contribute to projects related to enhancing RBC’s control environment to incorporate sanctions and export control evasion risks globally.
- Assist with the development of RBC’s new sanctions evasion and trade compliance program, including among others developing policies and procedures, training content, risk and gap assessments, reporting/metrics, etc.
- Assist providing advisory guidance and support to internal partners and RBC units globally on risks and requirements related to sanctions and export control evasion, including Financial Crimes & AML, trade finance, and commercial banking.
- This position directly mitigates RBC’s exposure to regulatory, legal, reputational, and financial risks and requires a compliance professional with a strong background in sanctions/AML compliance who also operates in a fast faced and high-pressure environment and can adapt quickly and confidently to changing regulatory requirements and expectations.
- Provides support to the Director, Sanctions Evasion & Trade or Senior Manager, Sanctions Evasion & Trade as required to ensure RBC continues to comply with all applicable economic sanctions laws and regulations.
- Mitigate RBC’s regulatory, legal, reputational, and financial risks by conducting investigations, contribute to projects, and generally assist with the development and enhancement of RBC’s controls related to sanctions and export control evasion to ensure RBC continues to comply with all applicable economic sanctions laws and regulations.
- Maintain a strong and in-depth knowledge of Canadian, US, UK and EU sanctions regulations, as well as Canadian and US export control regulations, and stay abreast of changes to sanctions and export controls regulations.
- Day-to-day management of sanctions and export control evasion investigations, including proactively identifying higher risk clients and transactions
- Assess potential sanctions as well as sanctions and export control evasion risks, ensuring that clients are not engaging in prohibited activities through RBC accounts and transactions are properly assessed given higher sanctions and export control evasion risks.
- Maintain accurate documentation of investigations and assessments of sanctions regulations per established procedures.
- Act as a point of escalation to internal partners and RBC units globally that require guidance/direction on sanctions and export control evasion.
- Identify clients and transactions that pose unacceptable sanctions risks to RBC and engage the Senior Management in Global Economic Sanctions to share these risks to RBC, including identifying and reporting transactions/activities to FINTRAC and drafting disclosures to law enforcement where potential violations of sanctions laws have been identified.
- Assist with projects enhancing RBC’s sanctions-related controls to incorporate sanctions and export control evasion risks globally.
- Demonstrate leadership, ownership, and a growth mentality to ensure positive and professional working relationships within Global Economic Sanctions, Financial Crimes & AML, and RBC’s business units.

**What do you need to succeed?**

**Must have**
- 4-7 years of direct Financial Industry Compliance or legal experience, including sanctions experience
- Undergraduate Bachelor’s Degree
- Prior sanctions compliance experience at a Canadian Financial Institution is an asset
- Experience excelling in a fast paced, high pressure environment
- Experience demonstrating strong written and oral communication skills
- Experience collaborating effectively with internal and external partners
- Strong knowledge of sanctions regulations/guidance and compliance challenges (e.g. deemed ownership)

**Nice to have**
- ACAMS or ACSS Certification

**What's in it for you?**
We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.
- A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
- Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
- Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
- A world-class training program in financial services
- Flexible work/life balance options
- Opportunities to do challenging work
- Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities
- Opportunities to building close relationships with clients
- Access to a variety of job opportunities across business and geographies

**Job Skills**

Analytical Thinking, Economic Sanctions, Export Control, Regulatory Requirements, Trade Compliance

**Additional Job Details**

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