Head of Sanctions
QontoBusiness Banking company
Paris, FranceDirector
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About the role
TL;DR
Lead Qonto's sanctions framework, ensuring regulatory compliance and safe growth across markets.
- •Join Qonto's Anti-Financial Crime team as a Head of Sanctions to build and lead the company's sanctions framework across all markets.
- •You will report to the Anti-Financial Crime Director and play a key role in Qonto's transition towards becoming a Credit Institution.
- •Key Responsibilities Define, document, and improve sanctions policies, standards, governance, and operational processes.
- •Create control and quality assurance mechanisms for sanctions oversight.
- •Optimize screening operations to improve tool usage, reduce false positives, and enhance matching quality.
- •Partner with internal teams (MLROs, Operations, AML, Fraud, Product, Tech) to embed sanctions requirements.
- •Represent Qonto externally with regulators and industry peers.
- •Lead and grow the sanctions team, staying close to day-to-day alert treatment.
- •Requirements Strong experience in sanctions, embargoes, and broader AFC/compliance topics, ideally from a large bank or international financial institution.
- •Understanding of multi-country regulatory requirements and ability to translate them into policies and processes.
- •Knowledge of payment schemes and flows, and how sanctions apply to them.
- •Experience with screening tools and methodologies (e.g., FircoSoft/FICO, World-Check One, ComplyAdvantage, Neterium is a plus).
- •Hands-on leadership experience, with the ability to coach team leads and experts.
- •Autonomous, pragmatic operator comfortable making decisions in ambiguity.
- •Professional English communication skills; French or another European language is a plus.
Required skills
Compliance ManagementContract ManagementVendor Management
Domain expertise
fintech
