Senior Manager, Financial Crimes (AML/Sanctions)

Location: New York City, United States; on-site at least three days per week at a client site, hirify.global office, or approved coworking location. Candidates should live within reasonable commuting distance.

Base salary: $175,000–$225,000 per year, plus annual performance and uncapped personal sales bonuses.

Company

hirify.global is a global management consulting group providing strategy, management, data science, and transformation services to clients across sectors, including financial institutions.

What you will do

• Set the strategy, roadmap, positioning, and growth plan for hirify.global’s Financial Crimes offering.
• Identify portfolio gaps and develop, partner on, or retire solutions covering AML, sanctions, monitoring, screening, managed services, and operating models.
• Originate, shape, and close business with banks, broker-dealers, insurers, payments firms, and other financial institutions.
• Lead AML and sanctions program design and remediation, risk assessments, policy and control enhancement, KYC/CDD, investigations, and look-backs.
• Advise on monitoring and screening technology selection, design, tuning, implementation, model validation, and responsible AI use.
• Lead client briefings, ensure engagement quality and commercial performance, and manage, coach, and develop consultants and managers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, business, law, or a related field.
• 12 or more years of experience in financial crime across industry, including a bank or other financial institution, and management consulting.
• Consulting experience at Manager, Senior Manager, or Director level, including originating and closing client work.
• Experience building or leading financial crime offerings, practices, or solutions, including defining roadmaps and bringing solutions to market.
• Deep knowledge of AML and sanctions regulation and supervisory expectations, including the Bank Secrecy Act, USA PATRIOT Act, Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020, OFAC sanctions, FATF recommendations, and international regimes.
• Strong command of AML and sanctions typologies, risk assessment methodologies, and monitoring and screening technologies.
• Experience designing and implementing compliance programs for financial institutions or multinational corporations.
• Executive presence, credibility with C-suite stakeholders and regulators, and exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated leadership in managing and developing consulting teams.

Nice to have

• CAMS, CFCS, or equivalent certification.
• Experience applying data analytics, AI, and automation to financial crime.
• Established relationships across the financial institution and vendor ecosystem.
• Experience with fraud, sanctions technology, digital assets, or real-time payments.

Culture & Benefits

• In-person collaboration with at least three on-site days per week.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage; company-paid life and AD&D insurance; supplemental insurance and EAP.
• 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting, plus HSA and FSA options.
• Paid parental leave, generous PTO, nine company holidays, and one floating holiday.
• College savings and student loan repayment programs, cell phone stipend, well-being, and professional development programs.
• Employment requires legal authorization to work in the United States; visa sponsorship is not available now or in the future.