AVP, AML Transaction Monitoring
Responsible for AML alerts, investigations, and compliance, requiring strong communication, managerial skills, and experience in transaction monitoring and financial crime.
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Job Specific Accountabilities & Strategic Contribution
- Responsible for owning a segment for their AML alerts and investigations
- Ensuring timely review of all alerts and investigations as per CB UAE guidelines
- Responsible for filing STR (Suspicious Transaction Report) with Group MLRO before they are sent to CBUAE
- Management of correspondent banking alerts and working with FI partners of the bank with the queries
- Authorizing restrictions on the customer account where money laundering concerns are suspected and recommending client exits if required.
- Testing and providing feedback on new scenarios, threshold limits and undertaking an impact assessment
- Supporting CB UAE audits and process walk throughs
- Training of resources with new scenarios and emerging typologies
- Review of the periodic circulars issued by the Central Bank and making amendments to the procedures and controls to align them with regulatory environment.
- Active collaboration with business to manage client experience while handling of the AML queries and other control environment.
- Stay abreast with the control environment, control appropriateness and effectiveness and control testing tools and techniques available within the Bank and work closely with the AML Transaction Monitoring Team leader
- Work with technology in measuring the appropriateness and screening capabilities of the product platforms with the Surveillance systems of the Bank.
- Identifying automation and tuning opportunities in the business unit that not only help to bring efficiency
- Effectively contribute to define the training and competency framework for the AML Teams Onshore/Offshore.
- Effectively manage and supervise the team by defining team's objective to maximize performance.
- Identify resource requirements to efficiently manage the FLOD Surveillance Teams ensuring the right set of skills and knowledge are maintained within the Team.
- Team development, performance management and consequence management for repeat failures.
- Act as a role model to direct and indirect reports to drive adherence to organizational values and ethics and foster a value driven culture within the bank.
- Identify opportunities to tune the screening engine to reduce false positives in the business balancing risk and efficiency.
- Supporting BRD development for changes, creation of CR and UAT testing
- Recommend, initiate and implement, optimizations to screening methodologies and parameters in order to maximize cost efficiency and effectiveness of FAB s regulatory compliance locally as well as for all jurisdictions where FAB operates.
- Working closely with the Technology, Data & Reporting Team on KPI s and KRIs for reporting to senior management.
- The job holder should possess and be abreast with complete knowledge of all: -
- Regulatory compliance, Sanctions, PEP and Adverse media policies & guidelines relevant to FAB s international network
- Responsible for monitoring and supporting timely implementation of Compliance systems projects applicable to domain.
Minimum Qualification
- Bachelor s degree or higher in management, banking, finance, preferably with certification in compliance, transaction monitoring/sanctions screening, KYC/AML/CFT, financial crime or risk management
- ACAMS certification
Technical Competencies/ Experience
- Minimum of 8-12 years of experience in a reputed bank with min of 5 years of exp in AML/Group Compliance function
- Excellent communications skills, written and spoken.
- Experience to handle large teams and different locations
- Positive and enthusiastic attitude
- Excellent interpersonal and managerial skills
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