Senior Associate, Transaction Surveillance Unit, Group Compliance

Business Function
Group Legal, Compliance & Secretariat ensures that the bank's interests are protected by zealously guarding and enhancing its reputation and capital. We also work to maintain a good standing with all our regulators, customers, and business partners. Because we believe that at the heart of business banking is to uphold the values of trust and integrity for all our stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Investigate and assess alerts for potential money laundering risk in the Bank.
Ensure efficient identification and monitoring of suspicious activities and transactions,
and timely escalation to respective parties where appropriate.
Preparing, reviewing, and/or filing Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs) and ensure
timely reporting of suspicious transactions to the authorities.
Assist with money laundering related queries or escalation received from business
units.
Liaise with other compliance units and businesses regarding surveillance issues.
Participate and assist in transaction surveillance projects.
Undertake other ad-hoc duties as and when required, e.g. provide statistics and
ensure accuracy of data, extract of documents for audit review.
Maintain a current understanding of money laundering and terrorist financing issues,
including policies, procedures, regulations, industry best practices, criminal typologies
and developing trends.
Support Team Leaders/Managers to ensure success and positive outcomes for the team, including (but not limited to) meeting of Team KPI/targets; and providing guidance/mentorship to team members

Requirements

Background in Institutional Banking experience
Degree in any related field.
Relevant compliance, risk management or operations experience
Basic computer knowledge (Word, Excel) is essential.
Have an eye for details and with good analytical, communication and written skills
Able to work in a fast-paced environment, and resourceful.