Sanction & Embargo coordinator

Ayvens is creating a leading global player in sustainable mobility.
Within Ayvens, the compliance function must ensure the Group compliance to all banking, financial and privacy regulations. To do so, its main missions consist in:

• Ensuring that all non-compliance risks are identified and that the Ayvens Group respects all regulatory and supervisory expectations,
• Evaluating the impact of legal and regulatory evolutions on the Ayvens Group activities and the compliance setup,
• Defining norms and procedures allowing to manage compliance risks,
• Providing advice on new products and activities, or on significative changes to existing products or activities,
• Ensuring the proper management of risks by LOD1 and the implementation of an adequate control setup,
• Identifying, evaluating and escalating breaches and incidents,
• Training staffs and promoting the compliance culture in the Group,
• Advising and informing the General Management and the Board of Directors on non-compliance risk.

KYC/ AML and Projects within FCC pillar

• The Compliance Function is organized around 4 pillars, which includes the Financial Crime Compliance (FCC). in charge of identifying and managing all risks related to a lack of adherence to regulations and standards from a financial crime perspective.
• Under the supervision of the Head of FCC Compliance, the FCC pillar is composed of the following key risks and activity domains:
  
  • Clients and transactions : management of dealflow advisory and approval,
  • Sanctions and Embargos : contributing to manage and monitor of the S&E framework in terms of governance, procedures and controls, monitoring and reporting – under the supervision and in full alignment with SG central Sanctions and Embargos team
  • KYC/AML : manage and monitor the AML/TF framework in terms of governance, procedures and controls, the application of vigilance obligations, monitoring and reporting, in alignment with SG central FCC.
  • FCC projects : driving and monitoring FCC related projects (end of integration and continuous improvement) for Ayvens

Key missions for the Sanctions and Embargos referent

Under the supervision of the Sanctions and Embargos (S&E) manager, he/she will coordinate any S&E related topics which contribute to continuously improve the framework, with the following objectives:

• Ensure implementation of the SG Group S&E normative framework and provide advice on the correct implementation of the policies or regulation,
• Ensure efficient and comprehensive filtering process of Level 2 alerts
• Bring expertise on S&E matters to Compliance correspondents and LOD1 and liaise with FCC/EMB where needed
• Ensure deployment of the Group Sanctions Training Plan within Ayvens perimeter;
• Ensure proper reporting to management
• Participate in projects impacting Embargo and requiring expertise

Key roles and responsibilities of the Sanctions and Embargos referent consist in :

• Coordinate Localized Sanctions Procedure (LSP), ENARE, Dispensation requests
• Draft and maintain updated Ayvens S&E Operational procedures
• Provide technical advice to Compliance correspondents, dealflow team and LOD1 (notably on NPC) on S&E Framework and liaise with Group Sanctions Compliance as and when needed.
• Analyze and follow up on the processing of Level 2 Alerts (referential) and potential escalation to FCC/EMB (KYC or incident)
• Conduct S&E risk assessment.
• Ensure regular or specific trainings on S&E in coordination with EMB/IRB
• Contribute and attend to S&E related committees (such as Monthly EMB/IRB; Monthly Ayvens; SNR committee)
• Define and follow up on remediation actions (compliance incidents, Recommendations, NFAs)
• Contribute to and challenge relevant reporting made by Group Sanctions Compliance through the consolidation of relevant information escalated by entities
• Participate in projects impacting Embargo and requiring expertise

To succeed in this role, you have the following skills and experience: 

• ENGLISH MANDATORY
• Successful experience within SG Group (compliance, legal, Risq, audit)
• Good knowledge of the financial crime environment and particularly S&E
• Ability to propose solutions, direct decision making
• Interpersonal / communication skills
• Positive and energizing attitude
• Knowledge of the leasing business is a plus
• Teamwork
• Ability to adapt

Position based in RUEIL MALMAISON (Hauts-de-Seine) or Amsterdam.

Ayvens, a subsidiary of the Société Générale Group specialising in automotive financial services, provides services to large corporates, small to medium sized companies and private individuals. Ayvens offers a high-quality and innovative driver mobility solution to customers across 43 countries worldwide or through commercial alliances in 16 countries.

The combination of ALD and LeasePlan into Ayvens represents a unique opportunity to leverage on our companies’ complementary capabilities and to create a leading global player in sustainable mobility with a total fleet of 3.5 million vehicles. 

Ayvens Central functions are responsible for the group's development and the supervision of activities to promote creation of synergies and to provide business and technical support, through its coordination role.

The Central Finance function will contribute to the creation of value for Ayvens by being a strategic partner to the business, as well as to guarantee and control the reliability of data, processes and technology used to produce financial information.