Santions Projects Expert

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Job Overview

The Sanctions Projects Expert's primary responsibilities will include developing new projects for the Sanctions Office and participating in open projects for corporate banking. Employee will be also responsible for preparing analyses of sanctions statistic and trends for regulatory reporting purposes. As an expert, hired person will be also responsible for taking all necessary steps to minimize sanctions risk in operational processes fror Corporate Banking.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing comparative data, preparing and presenting Bank Handlowy reports related to sanctions risk assessments, and monitoring of sanctions related issues and escalations with senior management and global partners.

• Supporting a specialized team of Independent Compliance Risk (ICRM) officers responsible for program execution activities.

• Contributing to the design and maintenance of a comprehensive written ICRM Sanctions Framework (standards and policies).

• Leading Sanctions Projects for Corporate Business

• Leading Optimization activities for Corporate business that reduce Sanctions Risk and Operational Risk

• Partnering with functional partners and key stakeholders – regionally and globally, as applicable, to ensure potential risks are identified during due diligence, or escalated on an ad hoc basis, are appropriately vetted and addressed. Identifying and escalating to the Chief Sanctions Officer material risks and significant instances of not adherence to the Framework by accountable front line units; directs investigations in coordination with GIU, CSIS, Legal, HR, or as appropriate.

• Monitoring adherence to Citi’s Global Sanctions Policy and relevant procedures; staying current on key Sanctions regulatory changes, key enforcement actions and related industry trends.

• Overseeing adherence to procedures and processes, to ensure compliance with policies ensuring that front line units meet required standards.

• Interacting with relevant teams to raise awareness of Sanctions trends, emerging issues, remedial actions or enhancements to the program.

• Supporting efforts in connection Internal Audit and functional regulators in Program exams and evaluations; tracks and challenges remedial actions from the front line units.

Qualifications:

• 2-5 years of experience in Sanctions/AML Area in financial Institution

• Knowledge of Compliance laws, rules, regulations, risks and typologies

• 2-5 years of experience in leading technology projects, preferably in Sanctions/AML area

• Bachelor's/University degree or equivalent experience

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Fluent Polish and English

• Must be a self-starter, flexible, innovative and adaptive

• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work collaboratively and with people at all levels of the organization

• Work collaboratively with regional and global partners in other functional units; ability to navigate a complex organization

• Excellent project management and organizational skills and capability to handle multiple projects at one time

• Proficient in MS Office applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

Citi Handlowy offers:

By joining Citi Handlowy, you will work in hybrid model (currently up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits which are currently provided such as:

• Employer paid Defined Contribution Pension Plan contribution of 7% of employee’s pensionable earnings (PPE Program).

• Employer paid Private Medical Care Package for employees and Private Medical Care Packages for certain family members available at preferential rates.

• Employer paid Life Insurance Program for employees and Life Insurance for certain family members available at preferential rates.

• Employee Assistance Program financed by Employer.

• Paid Parental Leave Program (maternity and paternity leave; statutory and 2 weeks additional paid paternity leave).

• Sport Card for employees subsidised via Social Benefits Fund and Sport Cards for certain family members available at preferential rates.

• Additional benefits from Company’s Social Benefit Fund, in particular: Holidays Allowance, support for sport and cultural activities, team building events.

• Additional day off for volunteering.

• Extra days off provided to employees celebrating significant service anniversaries, with eligibility occurring every five years.

• Cafeteria/ flex benefit – a company benefits system which enables employees to select and purchase benefits offered by a provider and available for employees on the platform.

• Opportunity to receive an annual discretionary incentive award.

• Special offers and discounts for employees.

Your personal data will be administered by Bank Handlowy w Warszawie S.A. with its registered office in Warsaw, ul. Senatorska 16. The Bank carries out the processing of your personal data first of all to conduct the recruitment process in which you participate, i.e. in the scope specified in Article 22(1) of the Labour Code (Article 6(1)(c) of the GDPR). You are entitled to: access your personal data, rectify them, erase them, restrict their processing, transfer your data and object to their processing. More detailed information is available at the website: https://www.citibank.pl/poland/files/privacy-notice.pdf

Please read the information about internal reports procedure – Whistleblowers Protection Act: https://www.citibank.pl/poland/files/ustawa-o-ochronie-sygnalistow.pdf

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Job Family Group:

Compliance

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Job Family:

Sanctions and Anti-Bribery & Corruption

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Time Type:

Full time

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Most Relevant Skills

Business Acumen, Credible Challenge, Laws and Regulations, Management Reporting, Policy and Procedure, Program Management, Referral and Escalation, Risk Controls and Monitors, Risk Identification and Assessment, Risk Remediation.

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Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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