Financial Crimes Expert (Trades and Economic Sanctions)

Let’s grow together!

Zurich Cover-More is one of the world’s largest travel insurance and assistance providers and part of Zurich Insurance Group, a leading multi-line insurer. We stand for more care, more cover, for all, and we look after more than 20 million of the world’s travellers every year, making sure we are there every step of their journey.

Our family of customer-facing brands include Travel Guard, Cover-More Travel Insurance, Travelex Insurance, Universal Assistance, World Travel Protection, Freely and Blue Insurance. We are a connected and caring workforce of more than 2600 employees with teams in North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific.

Our global delivery platform provides a consistent multi-lingual service experience and ability to write insurance policies in more than 50 countries. Zurich Cover-More has more 200 distribution partners around the world including airlines, global travel companies, major banks and credit card providers and leading retailers.

Further information is available at https://www.covermoregroup.com/people/.

What is the opportunity?

We are currently looking for a Financial Crimes Expert (Trade & Economic Sanctions) for Zurich Cover-More (ZCM).  This role is responsible for providing specialist expertise in managing financial crime risks, with a focus on trade and economic sanctions. Reporting to the Head of Compliance Centre of Excellence, the role will support the development, implementation, and review of compliance programs to ensure adherence to evolving regulatory requirements.

This role offers the opportunity to collaborate with experts across compliance, legal, risk, and business functions, ensuring that Zurich Cover-More can effectively navigate the complexities of financial crime compliance. By fostering a strong compliance culture, the Financial Crime Expert will help embed regulatory awareness and ethical practices across the organization.

This position is based in New York City, NY.

What will you be doing?

• Maintain a global, robust, and effective compliance framework with a primary focus on Trade and Economic Sanctions.
• Support the development and maintenance of a strong control framework for sanctions screening, ensuring effectiveness across the end-to-end process.
• Provide expert compliance advice, guidance, and input on Trade and Economic Sanctions to the global compliance network at all levels.
• Coordinate a network of local, regional, and global sanctions subject matter experts (SMEs) to identify emerging trends, share knowledge, and promote best practices.
• Serve as a key partner to local and regional Compliance officers, fostering alignment and consistency in sanctions compliance efforts.
• Manage the Sanctions Desk, handling high-risk cases referred by local and regional units and providing expert analysis.
• Analyze key performance indicators (KPIs) related to Trade and Economic Sanctions, generating insights to enhance compliance strategies and decision-making.
• Prepare high-quality reports for business leadership, governance committees, and regulatory bodies, ensuring transparency and accountability.
• Engage with senior stakeholders across Group Functions—including Claims and Underwriting—to understand business models and contribute to sanctions risk mitigation efforts.
• Support oversight and assurance processes to ensure compliance with trade and economic sanctions requirements.

What are we looking for?

• 5+ years of experience in financial services or regulatory compliance, ideally with knowledge of the insurance industry, particularly in commercial and global corporate business.
• Bachelor's degree in economics, business administration, risk and compliance, or law (preferred).
• Strong knowledge of Trade and Economic Sanctions compliance, including regulatory requirements and industry best practices.
• Exceptional analytical skills, with the ability to develop and deliver effective management information and reporting.
• Experience working in complex and large organizations, with the ability to navigate regulatory challenges.
• Ability to operate within a large financial group, build strong relationships across business lines, and communicate effectively with senior leadership.

Why choose us?

We value optimism, caring, togetherness, reliability, and determination.

We have more than 2600 employees worldwide: we are a global group of digital specialists, actuaries, marketers, doctors, nurses, case managers, claims specialists, finance experts and customer service professionals. We share a global mission to look after travelers, at every step of their journey.

Job flexibility. We understand the importance of making sure that work fits into your life, not the other way around.  Our hybrid approach ensures our employees maintain work-life balance with the flexibility of 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home.

Career growth. This is an extremely exciting time for us at Zurich Cover-More, as we are rapidly growing our business around the world. We are dedicated to helping our employees reach their full potential through a comprehensive onboarding program, ongoing professional development opportunities and a supportive work environment that encourages growth.

Take the time you need, for you and your community. We encourage you to take the time you need when you need it. We offer regular annual and personal leave benefits (everyone starts with 4 weeks) along with anniversary leave, volunteer leave and a comprehensive paid parental leave scheme.

Investing in your health and your future. We offer a competitive high deductible health plan, EAP programs and access to health and well-being activities along with 401(k) program with employer matching to help you plan for your future.

Diversity and inclusion. We respect who you are and thoroughly embrace diversity. So whatever walk of life you wander, just be you and come as you are. 

Apply today and let’s go great places together!