Role Overview

The Compliance Officer is responsible for assisting the Compliance Intelligence Unit Manager / his delegate in managing the Group’s Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Combatting Terrorist Financing (CTF) program with specific responsibility for planning, implementing and managing data driven thematic reviews especially focusing on human trafficking / modern slavery / illegal wildlife trading, adverse media monitoring and any request received from the Line Manager / his delegate with regards to sensitive reviews and/or publishing intelligence reports & share his findings with recommendations.

The incumbent is responsible for assisting the CIU in managing the Group’s Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Combatting Terrorist Financing (CTF) program. The incumbent will have overall responsibility to provide intelligence analysis support for both proactive and reactive analytics and research, performing trend analysis and producing related MIs on emerging money laundering trends. The incumbent will also be responsible for undertaking special / targeted AML reviews on a risk based approach and execute requests received from the Line Manager / his delegate with regards to money laundering reviews or guiding, advising various Business Compliance teams on AML related matters across the Group.

Key responsibilities 

• Setting out the relevant regulatory requirements and expectations that the Bank must comply with in an Obligations Register which then maps these to the Bank’s policies, procedures, and processes (including systems).
• Working with the business to monitor and set appropriate policies, procedures, and processes to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, expectations and industry best practices.
• Providing official written and informal guidance and advice on Compliance matters to the respective businesses as and when required (e.g. on a client, product or transaction basis).
• Ensuring that appropriate training is given to all relevant staff on the Banks policies and procedures.  This includes the provision of training on key policies and procedures such as Sanctions, AML and CTF.
• Undertaking periodic, risk based, Compliance Monitoring to ensure the Bank’s policies and procedures are being complied with and escalates to management significant non-compliance.
• Managing key Compliance systems such as Customer Screening, Transaction Screening and AML Monitoring.
• Managing the alert investigation process arising from the key Compliance systems and making the necessary escalations to management and disclosures to the relevant authorities.
• Responding to all regulatory requests to review and provide relevant information (e.g. customer, transaction, policy, procedure, and training, compliance monitoring and process details) or cooperation in a timely manner.
• Assisting the Manager in tasks as assigned.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in law, finance, Statistics / MIS / Data analytics  or a related field
• Bachelor’s Degree preferably Masters in Statistics / MIS / Data analytics / coding
• Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) or any recognized Compliance course (ICA diploma).
• Three (3) or more years of financial crimes risk management or Compliance intelligence experience related to transaction monitoring, investigation research, and analysis on proactively identifying compliance risks in the financial services industry.
• Strong experience leveraging proprietary databases (e.g., Lexis-Nexis, World-check, Factiva, etc.) for research purposes.
• The role holder should possess prior experience in regulatory, law enforcement, military, commercial (e.g. research / media) or Financial intelligence gathering environment.
• Strong knowledge of Europe and/or Middle East and/or Africa (e.g. political developments, law enforcement issues, corruption-related matters, etc.).
• Familiarity with the intelligence cycle (direction, collection, analysis and dissemination)
• Strong knowledge of and experience with reporting packages, databases, programming languages (like SAP-Hana, Hadoop, MS BI, Power BI SSRI, Cognos modeling, MS Access, Qlick-view, Sybase, R, Python, SQL, VBA and/or similar)
• Advanced Microsoft Excel (Macros, power query). Knowledge of statistics and experience using statistical packages for analyzing datasets
• Investigative skills, ideally with a focus on financial investigations and analytics

What we offer 

• Competitive salary package
• Market-leading incentives
• Strong emphasis on work-life balance and wellbeing across the bank
• World-class Learning & Development platform and career development
• Generous annual leave entitlement and Private Healthcare
• Preferential banking facilities for employees