Senior Associate- Compliance and Financial Crime

THE COMPANY: Our client is a successful retail and corporate banking firm. They are looking for a Senior Associate within Compliance and Financial Crime. THE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) investigations within prescribed timelines.
• Ensure timely, efficient reporting of SARs to the MLRO.
• Preparing quality SAR reports and disclose it to National Crime Agency after getting sign off from MLRO.
• Adherence to SAR timelines as described in POCA 2002.
• Ensure compliance with Money Laundering Regulations/ JMLSG guidelines and other AML/KYC related laws and regulations.
• Monitoring of System generated reports and identify out of patterns transactions and escalate accordingly.
• Perform compliance oversight reviews across Business and support functions and tracking and follow up for implementation of oversight recommendations / action points.
• Reporting of MI pertaining to open actions to Legal & Compliance Committee
• Assist with review of Compliance Policies and Procedures and where required review of other department owned policies.
• Ad hoc projects and assignments related to Compliance and Financial Crime, Internal Audit and FCA action plan as allocated by the Deputy Manager/Head of Legal & Compliance.

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Working Knowledge and understanding of the local regulatory environment
• Knowledge of financial services sector
• Sound technical knowledge and ability to apply them to improve productivity
• Strong analytical skills required to organise and ability to analyse multiple and complex data sets
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Strong verbal and written communication

For further information please contact Natalie Eshelby