Bank Of America Vice President Global Financial Crimes Specialist Sanctions 

Singapore 

960988382

Job Description:

Job Description:

This job is responsible for supporting the execution of substantive money laundering, economic sanctions and fraud compliance and operational risk practices. Key responsibilities include assisting Global Financial Crimes executives and managers with activities that support the identification, escalation and timely mitigation of compliance and operational risks in alignment with the Compliance and Operational Risk Management (CORM) Program, the Financial Crimes and Global Compliance - Enterprise Policies and the Enterprise Fraud Risk Management Standards.

This role is responsible for the day-to-day resolution of complex sanctions-related problems and the research and execution of complex transactions. Key responsibilities of the role includes reviewing complex sanctions alerts based on local jurisdictions’ regulations, analyzing and interpreting sanctions regulations in decision making of sanctions alerts, act as the liaison for all economic sanctions compliance matters for client management and key regional.

Responsibilities:

• Supports the development and maintenance of financial crimes owned policies and standards, and reviews relevant Front Line Units/Control Functions-owned policies and standards to ensure that regulatory requirements and operational risks are appropriately addressed
• Assists in the production of independent financial crimes risk management reporting to Global Compliance & Operational Risk (GC&OR) Senior Leaders and FLU/CF Senior Leaders
• Assists in the monitoring of changes in regulations applicable to Global Financial Crimes, including advising business leaders, directing the appropriate areas to implement or amend policies, standards, procedures and/or processes to address regulatory requirements, and challenging the implementation plan as needed
• Contributes to risk coverage plans, executes independent risk monitoring, testing, and risk assessments
• Supports with escalating financial crimes related compliance and operational risks and issues to appropriate governance routines, management/board level committees
• Assists in the identification, aggregation, reporting, and escalation of the remediation and thematic analysis of FLU/CF-owned issues and control enhancements related to financial crimes
• Assists in the review of internal and external operational loss events, including the development of remediation plans to strengthen controls and providing oversight to ensure they are addressed appropriately

Required Skills:

• Significant experience and knowledge of economic sanctions program requirements, particularly with EU, UK, and APAC-related sanctions regulations.
• Experience with the disposition of sanctions alerts or similar both in a transactional and customer setting
• Analytical and detail oriented.
• Good oral and written communications skills.
• Critical Thinking
• Monitoring, Surveillance, and Testing
• Regulatory Compliance
• Risk Management
• Issue Management
• Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines Management
• Written Communications