Citi is hiring a Sanctions Screening Analyst to join its Services Operations team covering TTS, where you will play a hands-on role in identifying, assessing, and managing sanctions and AML name screening activity across a global client base. This is an intermediate-level compliance operations role that sits at the intersection of financial crime risk and client transaction processing, ensuring Citi meets its regulatory obligations while maintaining high standards of operational accuracy. Your work will directly protect the integrity of Citi's operations and the clients it serves.

Responsibilities

• Screen client transactions and names against sanctions lists and AML watchlists, accurately assessing alerts to determine whether they require escalation or clearance.
• Investigate and resolve sanctions and AML name screening alerts within defined service level agreements, applying consistent and well-reasoned judgement.
• Research client and transaction data to support alert disposition decisions, ensuring findings are clearly documented and audit-ready.
• Monitor operational trends across screening queues and flag patterns that may indicate emerging risk or process gaps.
• Coordinate with compliance, legal, and client operations teams to ensure screening decisions are aligned with current regulatory requirements.
• Ensure all case documentation meets internal policy standards and satisfies applicable regulatory and audit requirements.
• Escalate potential compliance breaches or control issues promptly and transparently, maintaining the integrity of the firm's risk framework.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Practical knowledge of sanctions regimes and AML name screening processes, including alert review and case management.
• Ability to assess risk accurately and make clear, well-supported decisions under time pressure.
• Clear and effective written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to document findings precisely for compliance and audit purposes.

• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret complex client and transaction data and draw sound conclusions.  Ability to work with large data sets, leveraging tools like Power Query & Tableau

• Native-level Japanese language proficiency, required to review, interpret, and document client and transaction information accurately.
• Technical literacy, including AI acumen to embrace rapidly changing landscape
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.

Beneficial Skills & Qualifications

• 2-5 years of experience in sanctions screening, AML compliance, or a related financial crime operations role.
• Business-level English proficiency, enabling effective communication with regional and global compliance and operations teams.
• Knowledge of Payments industry including both Domestic & Cross Border flows
• Any Account Onboarding, Commercial cards or Trade / Supplier Finance experience

What We Offer

At Citi, you will contribute to a compliance function that operates at a global scale, where your decisions carry real regulatory weight and directly support the safety of the firm's operations. We offer a collaborative, performance-driven environment with genuine opportunities to develop your expertise in financial crime compliance.

• Hybrid working model with 3 days in the office and 2 days working remotely, providing structure and flexibility.
• Access to learning and development programmes that deepen your knowledge of sanctions, AML regulation, and financial crime compliance.
• Exposure to a broad, cross-functional compliance environment spanning TTS and global services operations.
• Wellbeing support and resources to help you maintain a healthy and sustainable approach to work.
• Clear career progression pathways within Citi's compliance and financial crime operations functions.
• Competitive total compensation package including financial wellbeing benefits.

Apply now to build a meaningful compliance career at one of the world's leading global banks, where your expertise in sanctions screening helps protect clients and uphold the highest regulatory standards.

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Job Family Group:

Operations - Transaction Services

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Job Family:

Cash Management

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Time Type:

Full time

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Most Relevant Skills

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Other Relevant Skills

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