Trade Compliance Officer — Sanctions

About this role

Shipping, Freight & Customs moves the goods: carrier relationships, bookings, documentation, customs clearance, chartering and vessel operations.

Keep our trade lawful across jurisdictions: sanctions and denied-party screening, dual-use classification, end-use checks, and stopping a shipment when the answer is not clean.

This is the part of trade that happens in the physical world and refuses to be tidy. Vessels get omitted, containers get held for examination, a wrong container number on a bill of lading stops a consignment at the gate, and demurrage accrues while somebody argues. The work is judged on landed cost and on how few surprises reach the buyer.

Primary responsibilities

• Own sanctions and export control compliance across every transaction
• Screen counterparties, vessels, banks and end users against the applicable sanctions lists, and re-screen when they change
• Handle dual-use and export control classification and the licensing that follows from it
• Investigate hits properly and document the decision, since a false positive cleared carelessly is the same failure as a true positive missed
• Track the sanctions landscape across the jurisdictions we touch, which changes with little notice
• Stop a transaction that cannot be cleared, and be backed for it

Skills required

Day to day this role works with Compliance, Sanctions Screening, AML and Dual-Use Goods.

• Five or more years in trade compliance or sanctions
• Current on OFAC, EU and UN regimes and how they interact
• Willing to stop a shipment that commercial very much wants to move
• Four or more years in sanctions, export control or trade compliance