Fis

Head of Financial Crimes Compliance

US FL JAX 347

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About the role

This is a high-impact leadership role reporting to the Chief Compliance Officer.
This role is based at FIS's headquarters in Jacksonville, Florida.

Establish, implement and maintain enterprise-wide financial crimes policies, standards, and governance frameworks across regions, legal entities, and product lines, including reporting lines, escalation protocols, issue management, and the development and refinement of key risks indicators and timely reporting and escalation to senior compliance leadership and relevant governance committees.
Support product leaders to embed compliance-by-design into new financial crime product launches and client implementations, balancing innovation with regulatory rigor.
Experience overseeing or coordinating a multi-jurisdictional financial crimes program, including support for local MLROs or country-level compliance teams.
Track record of building, refining, and presenting compliance metrics and reporting to senior leadership and governance committees.
Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, FIS is publicly traded and is regularly recognized as one of the largest fintech companies globally, combining deep financial services domain expertise with modern technology to help clients run mission-critical operations, manage risk, and grow in an increasingly complex regulatory environment.
The successful candidate will be a hand-on, credible leader capable of setting and executing a financial crime compliance strategy to identify, assess, monitor and mitigate financial crime risk, while remaining close enough to business and product leaders to drive practical, risk-based outcomes.

Strong judgment, integrity, and the ability to advise senior business and functional leaders on sensitive financial crimes matters.
FIS is particularly interested in candidates who bring deep financial crimes expertise together with practical experience operating in complex, multi-jurisdictional financial services or fintech environments.
If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will be required to undergo a drug test.

However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation.
All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model
a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies.
A demonstrated ability to balance rigorous risk management with commercial pragmatism.
Exposure to emerging areas such as AI, digital assets, or real-time payments is a strong plus.
Bachelor's degree required
relevant professional certification such as CAMS, CFE, or CFCS strongly preferred.

The company's platforms span core banking, payments, capital markets, and banking-as-a-service, processing trillions of dollars in transactions annually and supporting thousands of financial institutions and businesses across more than 100

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