Lead Sanctions Expert / Sanctions Alert Investigations Coordinator

Job ID: 3399

It’s an exciting time for you to join us. We’re a changing company with big ambitions and together we’ll create the future of banking.

Working with us, you will play a part in building a better bank that fulfils a meaningful role in society. We aim to help our customers around the world improve their lives and reach their goals. To do that, we are embedding compliance across the organisation to ensure people can trust Nordea. Interested in coming on the journey with us?

The offer

As a Lead Sanctions Expert - Sanctions Alert Investigations Coordinator in Sanctions Screening Management, Group Financial Crime Prevention your role involves acting as the interface between the screening service and the investigations teams handling alerts. You will secure that the implementation of our Target Operating Models for investigations secures outcomes that are easily explained, secure operational efficiency while always remaining risk focused. By interfacing with the investigation teams, you will ensure that operational impact of change is communicated and managed within the investigation functions. You will think end to end being aware of the entire sanctions value chain in both change and run the bank activities. You will be expected to secure industry best practice and regulatory expectations are met whilst embedding sustainable capability.

We are outcome focused and aim to secure the best possible end-to-end screening service for Nordea. We are passionate, professional, and focused on doing the right thing. You will be part of a capability build in this area working alongside team members located in Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Poland, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

What you’ll be doing:

• Be the Custodian of Sanctions Screening Investigation Target Operating Models:
  • Act as a sparring partner for the Process Responsibles in Transaction and Customer Screening at all levels of investigations to secure effective and efficient processes
  • Support team leaders in Sanctions Screening Investigations with the operationalisation of processes to secure effective and efficient decision making
  • Support with key processes associated with high performing investigations teams such as the development of metrics, forecasting and capacity planning
• Build relationships to key stakeholders of the Sanctions Screening Investigation teams:
  • Secure the interests of those in the broader payment and onboarding value chains are understood by Sanctions Screening Investigation teams to reduce friction
  • Secure requisite understanding of the impact of change occurring in the broader payment and onboarding value chains to manage their impact on investigations
• Be an agent for high quality change receivership in screening investigations:
  • o Manage demand toward the investigations value chain from testing activities such as User Acceptance Testing (UAT) or Above and Below the Line (ATL/BTL) testing
  • o Secure genuine buy in to change within the investigation teams by securing proper context and awareness of changes and their reasoning
  • o Communicate back to the broader Sanctions Screening set-up technical challenges Sanctions Screening Investigations are experiencing to secure mitigation

You will report to the Head of Sanctions Screening Management.

Who you are

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in being at our best – and that we imagine you share with us.

To build a successful career with us, you’ll work well with others and always act with the customer’s needs in mind. You love learning and trying new things, and you’re excited about bringing your ideas to the table. You’re honest and dependable, willing to speak up even when it’s difficult, and committed to empowering others. You’re passionate about doing a great job. This is a position that offers real career growth possibilities.

You:

• Are driven, emotionally intelligent and high performing, keen to learn and develop further
• Are used to working with and supporting diverse stakeholder with divergent needs
• Are open, honest, structured, result-oriented and act as a role model for others
• Own and drive your work independently and as part of a team with minimal supervision
• Have experience in a fast paced, complex environment, building influence beyond your specific functional area and across the value chain

You are located in Warsaw or Tallinn.

Your background will include:

• Have had significant exposure to international best practice in Screening Investigations
• Significant Experience in all aspects of the coordination of Screening Investigations
  • Supporting business as usual activities but also working with change receivership
  • Forming processes with complex hand offs, analyzing risks and control points
  • Leading a domain, coaching, mentoring and motivating others to achieve results
  • Managing efficiency and effectiveness in an investigation setting
• Experience in Service Delivery including managing relationships and partnerships
• A track record of working in a multi-business line international financial institution
• An ability to work with ambiguity, problem solve and structure the unstructured
• Experience communicating competently and confidently to management
• Strong English language communication skills (oral and written)
• A Master's degree or a Bachelor's degree

Experience with automation of false positive management beyond ‘good guys / skips or rules (such as Machine Learning, Decision Reapplication, Large Language Models) is considered highly beneficial.

If this sounds like you, we look forward to receiving your application!

Next steps

​Submit your application no later than 01/05/2026. For more information, you’re welcome to contact Adam George Veck at adam.george.veck@nordea.com.

We enable dreams and aspirations for a greater good.

We build relationships. We add a personal touch to everything we do – when advising our customers, collaborating with colleagues, and meeting our potential candidates.

We learn and develop. We take pride in being experts and thinking ahead. We use our expertise to meet our customers’ needs, from the simplest to the most complex. We bring a growth mindset to our work that enables us to focus on a broader perspective in our daily challenges.

We lead change. We are responsible and aware of the impact of our decisions, both for our customers and for our local and global communities. Mindful of our responsibility towards current and future generations, we have made sustainability an integrated part of our business strategy.

We are Nordea. We have a 200-year history of supporting and growing the Nordic economies and our values are deeply rooted in these open, progressive and collaborative societies. As one of the biggest employers in the Nordics, Poland and Estonia, you have excellent opportunities to evolve, develop and move forward with us.

Studies show that members of underrepresented communities don’t apply for jobs unless they tick all the qualification boxes. If this is part of why you hesitate to apply, we would like you to reconsider and give it a chance. Maybe your profile fits our needs much better than you think.

If you are an external consultant interested in this role and wish to apply please contact the hiring people leader for separate instruction on how to apply.