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About the Role

The VP of Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) is a senior compliance leadership role responsible for Corpay's global FIU, sanctions escalation, and transaction monitoring operations. This role owns the end-to-end process for transaction monitoring, investigations, and regulatory reporting, serving as the primary subject matter expert for complex financial crime investigations and sanctions escalations.

Responsibilities

• Leading the global FIU function and providing direct leadership, coaching, prioritization, and performance oversight to FIU compliance analysts.
• Owning the end-to-end live transaction monitoring/screening and post-transaction monitoring process, including alert triage, escalation, investigation, suspicious activity decisioning, case documentation, quality assurance, and timely closure.
• Overseeing all financial crime investigations, including matters involving money laundering, terrorist financing, fraud, sanctions evasion, proliferation financing, scams, mule activity, trade-based typologies, high-risk corridors, shell companies, and complex cross-border payment activity.
• Ensuring timely and accurate regulatory reporting, including SARs, STRs, SMRs, sanctions reports, blocked/rejected transaction reporting, law enforcement referrals, and other jurisdiction-specific reporting or escalation requirements.
• Serving as Corpay's FIU subject matter expert for suspicious activity monitoring, regulatory reporting, investigations, case management standards, SAR/STR/SMR narrative quality, and investigative decision governance.
• Serving as the sanctions subject matter expert for FIU escalations, sanctions screening investigations, potential sanctions evasion typologies, hit dispositioning standards, OFAC and other sanctions authority expectations, and escalation protocols.
• Developing and maintaining global investigation standards, procedures, playbooks, typology libraries, escalation matrices, quality review methods, and management information for FIU activity.
• Partnering with Product, Operations, IT, Legal, Compliance Advisory, regional compliance directors, and banking partner teams to identify emerging financial crime risks and align monitoring controls to business activity and regulatory expectations.
• Supporting Corpay's entry into the stablecoin space by developing FIU investigative standards, alerting strategies, escalation procedures, and typology coverage for cryptocurrency and stablecoin-related activity.
• Overseeing the use and enhancement of transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, case management, blockchain analytics, and data-driven investigative tools.
• Owning NYDFS Part 504-related transaction monitoring and filtering governance for Corpay's U.S. regulated MSB/money transmitter remit.
• Establishing and reporting FIU key performance indicators and key risk indicators.
• Providing periodic and ad hoc financial crime risk reports, thematic reviews, significant investigation summaries, and emerging risk briefings to the Chief Compliance Officer and other senior stakeholders.
• Leading responses to internal audit, regulatory examinations, law enforcement requests, banking partner due diligence, and compliance assurance reviews related to FIU investigations, transaction monitoring, regulatory reporting, and sanctions escalations.
• Promoting a culture of compliance, sound investigative judgment, continuous improvement, accountability, data-driven decisioning, and professional development within the global FIU team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, economics, criminal justice, law, data analytics, or a related field, or equivalent education and experience.
• Master's degree or law degree preferred.
• At least 15 years of progressive experience in financial crime compliance, FIU leadership, AML/CFT investigations, sanctions, transaction monitoring, fraud investigations, or regulatory reporting; experience in a global financial institution is strongly preferred.
• At least 5 years of people leadership experience managing FIU, investigations, transaction monitoring, sanctions, fraud, or financial crime compliance analysts, preferably across multiple jurisdictions or regions.
• Strong knowledge of U.S. BSA/AML, OFAC sanctions, FinCEN SAR expectations, state money transmitter requirements, NYDFS Part 504, and global AML/CFT regulatory reporting frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience owning or materially contributing to transaction monitoring and sanctions screening program design.
• Hands-on experience conducting, reviewing, and approving complex investigations and high-quality regulatory filings involving cross-border payments, foreign exchange, money transmission, remittance, e-money, fintech, commercial payments, or similar financial products.
• Experience or strong working familiarity with cryptocurrency, stablecoin, digital asset, blockchain, and virtual asset service provider investigations.
• Deep understanding of sanctions programs and list-based screening, including OFAC, United Nations, European Union, United Kingdom, Canadian, Australian, and other relevant sanctions regimes.
• Experience preparing risk reports, executive briefings, regulatory responses, audit materials, and senior management reporting for financial crime compliance topics.
• Demonstrated ability to operate in a fast-paced, high-volume, highly regulated environment while maintaining defensible decisioning, strong documentation, confidentiality, and sound risk judgment.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, especially Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience with SQL, data visualization, case management, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, blockchain analytics, and workflow tools is preferred.
• Familiarity with tools such as Oscilar, LexisNexis, Salesforce, TRM Labs, Chainalysis, or Elliptic is beneficial.

Skills

• Strategic FIU leadership
• Investigative judgment
• Sanctions expertise
• NYDFS Part 504 and monitoring governance
• Crypto and stablecoin intelligence
• Data-driven risk reporting
• Communication and influence
• Cross-functional partnership
• Operational excellence
• People and inclusion

Location

• North America
• Toronto
• London

Work Type

• Remote
• Onsite

Experience Level

• Senior
• 15+ years experience
• 5+ years people leadership

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree
• Master's degree preferred
• Law degree preferred

Salary/Compensations

• $250,000

Benefits

• Comprehensive Benefits Package including Medical, Dental, Vision and Paramedical benefits, as of day one
• Optional company match RRSP program
• Virtual fitness classes offered company-wide
• Time-off including major holidays, vacation, sick, personal, & volunteer time
• Discounted gym membership rate
• Philanthropic support with both local and national organizations
• Company-issued equipment
• Assigned workspace in your local office or remote work support

About the Company

• Corpay is a global technology organization that is leading the future of commercial payments with a culture of innovation that drives us to constantly create new and better ways to pay.
• Our specialized payment solutions help businesses control, simplify, and secure payment for fuel, general payables, toll and lodging expenses.
• Millions of people in over 80 countries around the world use our solutions for their payments.
• At Corpay, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and respectful workplace where employees are valued for their diverse perspectives, experiences, and contributions.
• We believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion strengthen our teams, drive innovation, and support our continued success globally.
• Fast-growing, global, rewarding, fun, involved – at Corpay, we are all of these and more.
• If you are an experienced and self-motivated professional who can perform at a high level, you will be rewarded.
• If you have great ideas, we want to hear them.
• If you want your career to grow at the same rapid pace as our organization, this is the place for you.
• Whatever your area of expertise, you can take it to the next level at Corpay.

Equal Opportunity

• Corpay is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees.
• Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
• Corpay is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where individuals are respected and valued for their diverse perspectives, experiences, and contributions.
• If you require reasonable accommodation during any part of the application or interview process, please notify a representative of the Human Resources Department.