Sanctions Advisor

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The Sanctions Advisor will provide specialized, second-line-of-defense compliance services across the entire SoFi Enterprise, including SoFi Bank, N.A., SoFi Securities, LLC, and the technology platform.

As SoFi continues its expansion into digital assets and cutting-edge financial technology, you will play a critical role in ensuring our sanctions compliance program keeps pace.

Your role will be to support the business in identifying, mitigating, and managing risks related to global sanctions (OFAC, UN, EU, UK), while ensuring the enterprise meets evolving regulatory expectations.

• Support the execution and maintenance of SoFi’s sanctions oversight controls framework by producing clear sanctions risk analyses and maintaining an enterprise-wide inventory.

• Serve as a point of escalation for sanctions investigations, including cryptocurrency, providing regulatory guidance for complex scenarios, risk determinations, and actionable mitigating steps.

• Act as sanctions subject matter expert for the SoFi Enterprise, advising Compliance, product managers, engineers, and SoFi’s business units during the entire product lifecycle.

• Support the ongoing tuning, testing, and optimization of payment and name screening, ensuring models are calibrated to minimize risk.

• Draft clear and well-reasoned sanctions risk analyses, reporting, and governance documentation. Assist in preparing materials for regulatory examinations, internal audits, risk assessments, and third-party reviews.

• Collaborate closely with AML leadership to integrate and operationalize sanctions obligations into new product assessments and ensure continuous alignment between Sanctions Advisory and broader financial crime objectives.

• Build and support the development of sanctions policies, procedures, and controls, ensuring that they align with regulatory requirements and business objectives and are properly implemented throughout the product lifecycle.

• Monitor developments and changes in sanctions regulations, industry trends, and best practices, and translate them into actionable