Global Sanctions & AML Screenings Operations and Project Lead
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Introduction

Welcome to Gallagher – a global leader in insurance, risk management, and consulting services. With a growing team of more than 45,000 professionals worldwide, we empower businesses, communities, and individuals to thrive. At Gallagher, you can build a career whether it's with our brokerage division, our benefits and HR consulting division, or our corporate team. Experience The Gallagher Way, a culture fueled by shared values and a collective passion for excellence. Join one of our dynamic teams, where you'll play a pivotal role in shaping Gallagher's future and unlocking unparalleled opportunities for both clients and yourself.

We believe that every candidate brings something special to the table, including you! So, even if you feel that you're close but not an exact match, we encourage you to apply.

Overview

Primarily focused on assisting in the operation and management of the Company's sanctions and and anti-money laundering (AML) compliance program tools and controls, including sanctions screening operations.

How you'll make an impact

• In coordination with key business and technology stakeholders to assist with global screening organization project execution, support initiatives to improve the screening program, protocols and training, and screening automation.
• Coordination of remediation based on, and maintenance of, sanctions screening risk assessments.
• Implementation of AML risk assessment; coordination with local compliance and operations on analysis and implementation of AML plans to mitigate the Company's risk.
• Coordination with IT and screening organization on progressing screening from the Company's source systems.
• Conduct regular period reconciliations of the Company's application inventory to help assure all systems have been considered for screening.
• Perform periodic monitoring reviews of screening tools.
• Design and implementation of periodic test plan with screening vendor and internal technology team to measure the effectiveness of the Company's screening programs.
• Provide input into the tuning methodology and implementation for the Company's AML and sanctions screening systems.
• Take the leading role in understanding the functionality of the Company's screening systems, and work with vendors and internal screening and sanctions team to identify and assist with internal project management for implementation of enhancements.
• Responsible for designing/setting configuration of screening fuzzy logic.
• Provide project management for global sanctions projects, including enhancements to systems, processes and procedures.
• Assist with the development of new and innovative techniques which will provide greater certainty in the Sanctions/Fin. Crime screening ability to detect and report any potential sanctions/ Fin. Crime touch point.
• Work with Information Technology and business functions to implement and enhance screening feeds, including providing testing scripts.
• Identify any failings in the screening feeds and work with Information Technology and business colleagues to remediate and rectify the failings.
• Maintenance of internal screening watch lists, and review of government watch list configurations in screening tools.

About You

Required:

• Bachelors degree and 7 years related compliance experience.

Highly Preferred:

• Previous sanctions compliance experience in the financial services sector, with AML experience preferred.

• ACAMS or ACSS certification.

• Working knowledge of Lexis Nexis Bridger or comparable screening tool.

• Fundamental understanding of US sanctions laws, with understanding of UK and EU sanctions laws preferred.

Behaviors:

• Collaborative

• Ability to organize and prioritize work, including multiple assignments with competing deadlines, structure and execute to project plans.

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Compensation and benefits

On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.

Below are the minimum core benefits you'll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Medical/dental/vision plans, which start from day one!
• Life and accident insurance
• 401(K) and Roth options
• Tax-advantaged accounts (HSA, FSA)
• Educational expense reimbursement
• Paid parental leave

Other benefits include:

• Digital mental health services (Talkspace)
• Flexible work hours (availability varies by office and job function)
• Training programs
• Gallagher Thrive program – elevating your health through challenges, workshops and digital fitness programs for your overall wellbeing
• Charitable matching gift program
• And more...

We value inclusion and diversity

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Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it's embedded into the fabric of our organization. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees' diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.