Sanctions Escalations Analyst - Europe
BinancePosted 5/31/2025
Sanctions Escalations Analyst - Europe
Binance
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Job Summary
The Sanctions Escalations Analyst role at Binance involves working with financial crime compliance, sanctions, and anti-money laundering (AB&C) risks. The ideal candidate will have 2+ years of experience in financial crime or sanctions compliance, knowledge of banking business processes, and strong analytical skills. They will work closely with stakeholders to provide actionable advice on managing financial crime risks and evaluate processes for identifying and assessing compliance risks. Binance offers a competitive salary, company benefits, and a flexible work arrangement, including the option to work from home. The role is part of a user-centric global organization with a flat structure, allowing for autonomy and opportunities for career growth.
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Subject Matter Expertise of financial crime compliance incl. risks, controls, industry best practice and regulatory requirements.
- Act as L2 Compliance to receive name screening alerts of PEP, Adverse Media and Sanctions that cannot be resolved by L1 Operations.
- Conduct Open Sourced Intelligence Research, be able to conduct risk assessment of potential true positives and present findings to senior compliance stakeholders.
- As part of a team, provide actionable advice to stakeholders on how to effectively manage financial crime, sanctions and AB&C related risks and keep them informed of developments in this area.
- Critically evaluates processes for identifying, documenting and assessing compliance risks associated with Binance's activities, providing advice and challenge as appropriate.
- Review FCC/Sanctions/AB&C related risk profiles escalated from internal teams, assessing their impact on internal projects, policies, procedures, processes and systems.
Requirements
- 2+ years of relevant experience in financial crime or sanctions compliance.
- Knowledge of banking business, processes, procedures and systems.
- Experience in startup or fintech industry is a plus.
- University degree.
- ACAMS or ACFCS certification is a plus.
- Fluency in English is required to be able to coordinate with overseas partners and stakeholders. Additional languages would be an advantage.
- Strong analytical and writing skills, and sound judgment.
- You are a good communicator verbally and in writing, being able to convey complex.
- You are able to work under tight timeline and prioritize work independently.
- You are confident, result driven and seek to find innovative and new creative solutions.
- Experience with stakeholder management is an advantage.
