Oversee daily deliverables required from High Risk Detection Team with focus on screening and due diligence for Senior Political Figures/Politically Exposed Person and Material Negative News.
Establish effective controls within processes (Quality Assurance), perform reviews, and test/monitor the effectiveness of controls
Engage with senior stakeholders to identify issues and/or control improvements for remediation.
Coordinate and secure approvals on response to queries from audit or exams, and or / Testing process
Review AML/CFT regulatory change pipeline for APAC jurisdictions and assess impact to Screening process
Represent Screening as well as High Risk Client portfolio in APAC region in relevant governance forums
Identify areas of opportunity for continuous improvement and drive strategic changes on potential risk concerns identified
Required Skills:
Strong presence and communication skills
Working knowledge of Banking & Global Markets products and/or Regulation based Ops processes and/or high volume/large scale back-office operations
Ability to collaborate with teams across different sites and locations; direct and matrix reporting environment
Ability to manage multiple and competing priorities; Execution-oriented with ability to quickly organize work and execute with speed
Detail-oriented, while still being able to see the big picture
Organizationally savvy and strong influence skills; can work across organizational lines and regions to gain consensus and buy-in from senior stakeholders; leverages relationships to influence outcomes and drive decisions
Ability to lead across multiple lines of business to orchestrate cohesive risk & controls oversight and process management.
Ability to partner with, establish credibility with and influence internal and external key stakeholders in a heavily matrixed environment
Highly collaborative, execution driven and works through influence and engagement; ability to bring multiple stakeholders together, directly address issues to reach consensus & decisions
Demonstrates personal courage.
Desired Skills:
Working knowledge of Global Banking & Global Markets and applicable systems/tools
Process improvement and six-sigma and/or data analysis experience
Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience