About the job

The Financial Crime Prevention (FCP) unit is accelerating the deployment of financial crime prevention capabilities to become a leader in fighting financial crime.

As part of this journey, the FCP Group Sanctions Office is looking to hire a new senior colleague to join the team.

About the role:

We’re seeking a strategic, experienced Senior Sanctions Officer to join our Sanctions Advisory Unit in Vilnius. This high-impact, senior-level role demands deep sanctions expertise, strategic thinking, and the ability to influence at the highest levels. You’ll act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, initially as an individual contributor, with a view to build and lead a local advisory team.

You will drive regulatory monitoring, advise on complex sanctions and circumvention matters (OFAC, EU, UN, UK), lead high-risk investigations, and integrate sanctions intelligence into broader risk frameworks. You’ll design sanctions and sanctions circumvention role-based training for key functions and shape our sanctions strategy in a fast-evolving global landscape.

Join us to play a pivotal role in managing global sanctions and circumvention risks, shaping a resilient compliance framework.

To thrive in this role, we believe you have:

5+ years of direct experience in sanctions compliance, including advisory, investigations, or policy-related responsibilities.
Demonstrated management or leadership experience, with the ability to lead initiatives and build and manage a team.
Strong working knowledge of key international sanctions regimes, including EU, UN, US, and UK, and their practical implementation within a financial institution.
Excellent communication skills in spoken and written English; fluency in Swedish is considered an advantage.
Proven ability to build collaborative and trusted relationships with a wide range of stakeholders across business, risk, and compliance functions.
Solid understanding of financial products, services, and payment systems, and how they intersect with sanctions risks.
Proactive and solution-oriented approach, with a track record of identifying opportunities to enhance or streamline existing policies, processes, and controls.

What we offer:

Entrepreneurial Scandinavian environment: work-life balance, hybrid way of working, international working environment, empowering culture. Friendly and welcoming teammates, top-class client network and projects or other.
Growth culture: extensive training and learning opportunities, additional learning platforms, local and international internal mobility possibilities, long-term stability. Learn to deliver world-class service to customers, possibility to help transform an industry, and put an impact on social or environmental issues or other.
Modern environment: innovative company in forefront of technology, challenging, cutting-edge work, excellent office environment, agile and modern ways of working.
Additional monetary benefits: paid seniority vacation and volunteering days, allocations to Your pension fund, profit sharing programme, and additional health insurance.

Do you want to be a part of SEB? Welcome to our inclusive culture, where our shared values inspire and uplift our team. We celebrate diversity and strive to ensure every employee feels seen, heard, and valued.

We are looking forward to your application by August 4, 2025.

Since we select candidates continuously, feel free to send in your application before the deadline. If you have questions about the position, please contact Name and Surname and contact info.

Learn more about working at SEB here: https://www.seb.lt/en/gs

It is our fundamental belief that inclusion and diversity is crucial for our future success. We strive to have an inclusive, value-driven culture where employees feel valued, respected, and involved irrespective of who they are, what they believe or where they come from.