CFT / AML Compliance Officer (Banking - Anti-Money Laundering)

Job Description:

Support the client bank's Compliance, Anti-Financial Crime (AFC) - Intelligence, to roll out a digital platform for financial institutions (FIs) to share with one another relevant information on customers and transactions to prevent money laundering (ML), terrorism financing (TF) and proliferation financing (PF).

Job Responsibilities

- Collect, analyze, and enrich internal and external sources of Anti-Financial Crime (AFC) intelligence, including but not limited to information from competent authorities, typology reports by reputable governmental/non-governmental bodies, and the Bank's internal AFC surveillance sources/systems/models.

- Conduct strategic analysis to identify money laundering, terrorist financing and other emerging financial crime trends or patterns that may have an impact to the Bank and conduct operational analysis to identify specific entities or networks that may pose financial crime risks to the Bank.

- Provide timely and concise updates to relevant stakeholders on the outcomes of strategic/operational analyses, including the assessment of the financial crime risks, its potential impact to the Bank and the possible risk management actions.

Job Requirements

- At least 2 years of experience in an investigative or intelligence related anti-financial crime (AFC) role in a financial institution, law enforcement agency or similar fields where investigative/research skills and approaches are employed.

- Able to conduct sound research to gather relevant information from various sources, and apply suitable analytical skills to discover insights, draw conclusions and provide appropriate recommendations.

- Able to appreciate how financial crime-related developments locally and internationally may have an impact to the Bank.

- Proficiency with online research tools/databases and data analytics tools.

- Knowledge of how data analytics can be deployed in the AFC intelligence space.

- Strong sense of integrity, self-driven, inquisitive, and resourceful.

- Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.

- Strong project management skills

- Familiarity with Collaborative Sharing of ML/TF Information & Cases

- Diploma / Degree in Finance, Business or any related field

- Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) or a Diploma in AML with International Compliance Association will be advantageous.