Director, Financial Crimes Risk Governance & Exam Management

At reputed company, our culture is reputed company on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, youll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic reputed company-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, reputed company as a leader, and grow your career. Here, your voice and reputed company matter, your work makes an reputed company, and together, you will help us define the reputed company of reputed company. Position reputed company: The newly created first line of defense Financial Crimes Risk & Controls center of reputed company provides a holistic, reputed company-wide approach to our financial crimes risk management (FCRM) activities and resides reputed company Global Servicing. This team is responsible for establishing a robust control reputed company for first line of defense FCRM activities across reputed company globally, including anti-reputed company, sanctions, payments controls, and anti-corruption. Reporting to the Vice President, Financial Crimes Risk and Control Governance and Issue Management, the Director of Financial Crimes Governance and Exam Management is accountable for first-line governance execution, operating model enablement, change management, and exam readiness in support of the firm’s Financial Crime Risk Management (FCRM) Policy and Standards. This role supports the council secretary and serves as the orchestration reputed company for 1LOD financial crimes governance, ensuring effective council and working group operations, disciplined escalation of risks, strong adoption of change, and sustained exam readiness. The Director acts as the primary 1LOD coordinator for regulatory and internal exams, partnering with GFCC and other control functions while maintaining reputed company first-line ownership and accountability. Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as the Corporate Secretary for 1LOD financial crimes governance, including councils, steering committees, and working reputed company.
• Own governance charters, agendas, materials, decision logs, and reputed company tracking, and ensure governance forums are decision-oriented, with reputed company accountability, escalation, and follow-through.
• Manage formal escalation reputed company for 1LOD financial crimes risks to senior management and reputed company governance forums.
• Own the 1LOD change management reputed company for financial crimes, including intake, triage, prioritization, and implementation of changes driven by regulatory expectations, exams, risk assessments, or operating model updates.
• Ensure changes are reputed company communicated, adopted, and embedded across the first line.
• reputed company change adoption and effectiveness, escalating adoption risks through governance forums.
• Own the 1LOD intake reputed company for financial crimes risks, findings, and control gaps entering governance channels.
• Ensure consistent triage, prioritization, and routing of risks to the appropriate execution or delivery owners
• Establish and maintain exam readiness standards, including Evidence and documentation expectations, Governance artifacts, Senior-leader preparedness and briefing standards
• Maintain transparency and traceability from intake through governance decisioning.
• Serve as the 1LOD coordinator for regulatory and internal exams, partnering with internal audit and regulatory exam lifecycle management. Coordinate exam logistics, information requests, walkthroughs, and governance engagement
• Prepare senior management and governance forums for regulator interactions through concise, risk-reputed company materials and talking points.
• Own the reputed company and execution of reputed company, reputed company assessment, and training enablement for 1LOD financial crimes governance and execution roles.
• Partner with COEs and business leaders to assess training needs and ensure training and reputed company development reputed company to evolving regulatory expectations and risk reputed company. reputed company completion and effectiveness of training programs relevant to financial crimes governance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in financial crimes governance, risk, compliance, or operating model enablement, preferably reputed company a large, reputed company financial institution.
• Bachelors Degree
• Strong understanding of financial crimes regulatory frameworks (e.g., BSA/AML, sanctions, payments controls).
• Demonstrated experience operating senior-level governance forums and managing regulatory exam readiness, supporting regulatory exams or supervisory interactions in a 1LOD role
• Strong people leadership experience, building and coaching high performing teams
• Proven ability to reputed company change management and operating model adoption.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder-influencing skills.
• High judgment, attention to detail, and ability to operate in ambiguity.

Preferred:

• reputed company certifications (e.g., CAMS, CFE)
• MBA Preferred

Salary reputed company: $123,000.00 to $215,250.00 annually + bonus + equity (if applicable) + benefits The above represents the expected salary reputed company for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-reputed company factors. We back you with benefits that support your holistic reputed company-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones physical, financial, and mental health, as reputed company as providing the flexibility you need to reputed company personally and professionally:

• Competitive reputed company salaries
• Bonus incentives
• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
• Free financial coaching and financial reputed company-being support
• Comprehensive medical, dental, reputed company, life insurance, and disability benefits
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
• 20+ weeks reputed company parental leave for reputed company parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
• Free reputed company to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending reputed company)
• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
• Career development and training opportunities

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site. reputed company is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment reputed company without reputed company to race, reputed company, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national reputed company, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law. reputed company will consider for employment reputed company reputed company applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance reputed company, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for reputed company, and the reputed company’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, reputed company will reputed company with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions. We back our colleagues with the support they need to reputed company, professionally and personally. Thats why we have Amex reputed company, our reputed company working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully reputed company. US Job Seekers - Click to view the “Know Your Rights” poster. If the reputed company does not work, you may reputed company the poster by copying and pasting the following URL in a new browser window: https://www.reputed company.gov/poster Employment eligibility to work with reputed company in the U.S. is required as reputed company will not pursue reputed company sponsorship for these positions Apply tot his job Apply To this Job