Global Financial Crimes - Sanctions & Name Screen Tuning Team, Vice President

Vice President Global Financial Crimes

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The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details.

Job Summary :

MUFG Bank is seeking an experienced and highly analytical Vice President Global Financial Crimes to lead the oversight and enhancement of the Bank's AML / BSA and OFAC sanctions screening models. This role is critical in ensuring our financial crime detection systems are optimized, compliant with regulatory expectations, and aligned with our enterprise risk framework.

As a strategic leader within the Financial Crimes Compliance function, you will bring deep expertise in quantitative modeling, sanctions compliance systems, regulatory policy, and banking operations. You will work cross-functionally with stakeholders in Risk, Technology, Compliance, and Audit to strengthen the Bank's global financial crime program.

Qualifications :

• Lead the development, testing, validation, and tuning of AML transaction monitoring and OFAC name screening models, ensuring detection accuracy and regulatory compliance.
• Apply quantitative and statistical techniques to evaluate model performance, including fuzzy logic matching, supervised and unsupervised machine learning, neural networks, and decision trees.
• Manage model tuning initiatives such as what-if scenario analytics, excess-over-threshold monitoring, and ATL / BTL sampling to optimize alert quality and reduce false positives.
• Provide subject matter expertise on the implementation and performance evaluation of sanctions screening systems within core banking operations.
• Ensure compliance with banking regulatory standards, including those set by the FRB, OCC, SEC, FATF, FinCEN, OFAC, and the USA PATRIOT Act.
• Collaborate with second-line Model Risk Management (MRM) and Internal Audit teams to address governance requirements and regulatory expectations.
• Review and assess the performance of third-party vendor models including Actimize (SAM / WLF), Hotscan, RDC, Bridger Insight, Fircosoft, and SWIFT STS.
• Partner with internal stakeholders to enhance data quality, process automation, and strategic program improvements across AML / sanctions workflows.
• Deliver clear and concise reports, risk assessments, and executive-level presentations for regulators, board committees, and senior management.
• Foster a culture of compliance and continuous improvement, ensuring alignment of financial crime detection strategies with enterprise-wide risk management objectives.

Qualifications :

The typical base pay range for this role is between $126k-$164k depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus and / or incentive compensation. Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays.