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Financial Crimes Strategy & Oversight Lead
- Truist (Charlotte, NC)
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Regular or Temporary:
Regular
**Language Fluency:** English (Required)
Work Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)
Please review the following job description:
The Financial Crimes Strategy and Oversight Lead is a senior leadership position within Truist’s Financial Crimes risk organization, responsible for executing the vision, governance, and strategic priorities for Truist’s enterprise-wide Anti-Money Laundering (AML) program, including Sanctions. This role provides oversight of innovation initiatives, ensuring the AML framework remains robust, adaptive, scalable, and aligned with evolving regulatory expectations. The incumbent will influence enterprise risk identification, assessment, and decision-making, and serve as a trusted advisor to business and risk partners.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
The **Financial Crimes Strategy and Oversight Lead** will execute strategic direction.
1. Define and execute AML strategic priorities in alignment with enterprise objectives, influencing organizational direction and long-term risk posture.
2. Collaborate with technology, data, and business partners to identify, measure and mitigate risks tied to strategic objectives.
3. Participate in regulatory dialogues and industry forums, shaping thought leadership through speaking engagements at conferences and executive roundtables.
4. Solution and execute high-risk escalations and ensure sustainable, timely, effective resolution while maintaining executive visibility and accountability.
5. Manage enterprise-level communications, translating complex strategies into clear compelling executive communications.
6. Act as technology liaison for AML platforms, influencing roadmap and investment decisions.
7. Lead enterprise-wide evaluation of changes and impacts to AML transformation initiatives, driving modernization scalability and alignment with future-state architecture.
8. Champion process automation and data governance enhancements, strengthen process and controls to enable alignment to strategy.
9. Conduct root cause analysis and enforce timely remediation of identified gaps.
10. Lead and manage a high-performing team by setting clear goals, providing guidance, fostering collaboration, and ensuring accountability for results.
**Qualifications** Financial Crimes Strategy & Oversight Lead
Required Qualifications:
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
1. Ten years of demonstrated experience with anti-money laundering/terrorist financing compliance programs, with at least five years of experience in key leadership roles.
2. Ability to manage large and diverse staff in multiple locations.
3. Strong project management and organizational skills, as well as strong technical skills, including experience in developing, collecting and reporting metrics to manage execution and compliance program controls.
4. Ability to develop and maintain collaborative relationships with all levels of management and staff.
5. Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills; ability to communicate effectively with Executive Management and line of business managers.
6. Advanced proficiency in computer applications, such as Microsoft Office software products.
Preferred Qualifications:
Accreditation by ACAMS, an equivalent industry body, or other qualifications in the areas of financial crime, risk management, or compliance.
**General Description of Available Benefits for Eligible Employees of Truist Financial Corporation:** All regular teammates (not temporary or contingent workers) working 20 hours or more per week are eligible for benefits, though eligibility for specific benefits may be determined by the division of Truist offering the position. Truist offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, accidental death and dismemberment, tax-preferred savings accounts, and a 401k plan to teammates. Teammates also receive no less than 10 days of vacation (prorated based on date of hire and by full-time or part-time status) during their first year of employment, along with 10 sick days (also prorated), and paid holidays. For more details on Truist’s generous benefit plans, please visit our Benefits site (https://benefits.truist.com/)
. Depending on the position and division, this job may also be eligible for Truist’s defined benefit pension plan, restricted stock units, and/or a deferred compensation plan. As you advance through the hiring process, you will also learn more about the specific benefits available for any non-temporary position for which you apply, based on full-time or part-time status, position, and division of work.
_Truist is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, color, religion, citizenship or national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or other classification protected by law. Truist is a Drug Free Workplace._
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