Process Associate - Sanctions

Job title: Process Associate - Sanctions

About the Role Guidehouse is seeking a Process Associate to support sanctions screening across onboarding, transaction monitoring, and payment screening workflows. The role involves reviewing, investigating, and dispositioning alerts, performing name and entity matching analysis, and escalating actions to management and Legal/Compliance as needed.

What You'll Do

• Review, investigate, and disposition sanctions screening alerts across customer onboarding, transaction monitoring, and payment screening workflows.
• Conduct thorough name and entity matching analysis against OFAC, UN, EU, OFSI, and other applicable sanctions lists.
• Perform enhanced due diligence (EDD) on high-risk alerts, including ownership and control analysis for potential sanctions evasion.
• Draft clear and well-documented disposition memos supporting true match escalations or false positive closures.
• Escalate confirmed or potential sanctions hits to the Sanctions Manager and Legal/Compliance for further action.
• Assist in filing SARs and other regulatory reports as required in connection with sanctions-related findings.
• Provide mentorship and quality review support to junior analysts on the sanctions review team.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of sanctions procedures, job aids, and training materials.
• Participate in periodic testing, audits, and regulatory examinations, including preparation of supporting documentation.
• Stay current with regulatory developments across major sanctions programs (OFAC, UN, EU, UK, APAC) and communicate relevant changes to the team.

What We're Looking For

• Experience reviewing, investigating, and dispositioning sanctions screening alerts across onboarding, transaction monitoring, and payment screening.
• Strong name and entity matching analysis against OFAC, UN, EU, OFSI lists; familiarity with OFAC/UN/EU/UK/APAC regimes.
• Experience performing enhanced due diligence (EDD) and ownership/control analysis for sanctions risk.
• Ability to draft clear, well-documented disposition memos for true/false positives.
• Experience escalating hits to management and Legal/Compliance; ability to collaborate with Sanctions Manager.
• Familiarity with regulatory reporting such as SARs.
• Mentorship and quality-review skills; ability to train junior analysts.
• Experience developing and maintaining sanctions procedures, job aids, and training materials.
• Familiarity with audits, testing, regulatory examinations; preparing supporting documentation.
• Proactive with regulatory developments and communicating changes to the team.