Welcome to Haleon. We’re a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of millions. In just three years since our launch, we’ve grown, evolved and are now entering an exciting new chapter – one filled with bold ambitions and enormous opportunity.

Our trusted portfolio of brands – including Sensodyne®, Panadol®, Advil®, Voltaren®, Theraflu®, Otrivin®, and Centrum® – lead in resilient and growing categories. What sets us apart is our unique blend of deep human understanding and trusted science.

Now it’s time to fully realise the full potential of our business and our people. We do this through our Win as One strategy. It puts our purpose – to deliver better everyday health with humanity – at the heart of everything we do. It unites us, inspires us, and challenges us to be better every day, driven by our agile, performance-focused culture.

Sanctions Screening Lead

Group Ethics & Compliance

About the Role

The Sanctions Screening Lead, reporting to the Global Sanctions Screening Manager, oversees alert disambiguation and ensures accurate identification, resolution and escalation of potential matches in line with our enhanced risk-based sanctions screening program.

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with Global Sanctions Manager and manage end-to-end alert disambiguation by assessing name variants, aliases, transliterations, fuzzy matches, company structures, ultimate beneficial ownership, and contextual data to accurately differentiate between false positives and actual matches.
• Conduct peer reviews, regular sample testing, and maintain evidence such as case files, notes, and exceptions to satisfy internal controls and external audit requirements.
• Track and report key metrics including case aging, resolution time, false positive rates, escalation counts, and re-screening intervals, while leading remediation efforts if targets are not reached.
• Support the Sanctions Center of Excellence (CoE) with screening solutions, covering activities such as system tuning, data quality management, and health checks.

Minimum qualifications

• University degree and fluent in written and spoken English.
• 3+ years’ screening experience with expertise in alert disambiguation and case documentation.
• Working knowledge of OFSI/OFAC/EU/UN regimes, list management, and beneficial ownership principles; familiarity with sectoral and jurisdictional nuances.
• Proficiency with industry screening tools (e.g., Dow Jones, FircoSoft) and case‑management workflows; comfortable with list updates and tuning.
• Strong judgment for materiality & escalation, and clear, defensible writing for audit trails and governance review.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with automation or analytics to reduce false positives and improve throughput; exposure to large master‑data environments.

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Equal Opportunities

Haleon are committed to mobilising our purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on our brands every day. It guides us in creating an inclusive culture, where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected – all in support of understanding and best serving the needs of our consumers and unleashing the full potential of our people. It’s important to us that Haleon is a place where all our employees feel they truly belong.

During the application process, we may ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. This information ensures we meet certain regulatory and reporting obligations and supports the development, refinement, and execution of our inclusion and belonging programmes that are open to all Haleon employees. 

The personal information you provide will be kept confidential, used only for legitimate business purposes, and will never be used in making any employment decisions, including hiring decisions.

Adjustment or Accommodations Request

If you require a reasonable adjustment or accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at Haleon at any stage of the application process, please let your recruiter know by providing them with a description of specific adjustments you are requesting. We’ll provide all reasonable adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process and treat all information you provide us in confidence. 

Note to candidates

The Haleon recruitment team will contact you using a Haleon email account (@haleon.com). If you are not sure whether the email you received is from Haleon, please get in touch.