Experience working with or in a Financial Crime Compliance team
Knowledge of custody, asset servicing, fund administration, securities lending, asset management, and wealth management businesses (preferred)
Ability to analyse data to identify opportunities for monitoring/testing
Ability to identify risks in a process through assurance and monitoring programs
Ability to use initiative and work unsupervised in a proactive manner
Ability to collaborate and maintain positive partnerships with business partners while remaining objective, with an ability to make an independent assessment of the risk environment and business challenges
Ability to work to deadlines
Excellent attention to detail
Strong organisational skills, a collaborative approach to work, with strong interpersonal skills
Able to work with a cross section of teams across multiple locations
Responsibilities
Assist with maintaining existing Hong Kong related procedures for countering financial crime, including money laundering, sanctions, politically exposed persons, and anti-bribery and corruption
Provide AML advisory guidance to business partners in various business lines, including Asset Servicing, Asset Management, and Wealth Management
Assist with monitoring, undertaking impact assessment, and implementing financial crime regulatory changes in Hong Kong
Alongside MLRO, partner with management and business partners to implement financial crime compliance programs, including training on such programs
Embed the Northern Trust framework for identifying and documenting all local financial crime compliance obligations through rules mapping, risk assessments, monitoring, and regulatory change management processes
Assist MLRO to conduct Financial Crime Compliance Enterprise Wide Risk assessments annually or as otherwise required for HK
Review suspicious transaction monitoring conducted by a centralized team
Assist MLRO in preparing AML reporting, including for internal committees and boards
Work in partnership with the wider Compliance, Financial Crime Compliance, Risk, and Controls teams
Support AML/KYC matters in relation to the onboarding/periodic review of Hong Kong contracted & serviced clients
Assist HK MLRO to oversee China branch’s AML activities by reviewing and providing input into policies, the Enterprise Wide Risk Assessment, financial crime rules mapping, gap assessments, etc
Assist the China MLRO to provide training to China partners