Job purpose:
To manage oversight and be backup for the unit’s transactions screening function, maintain oversight of policy and procedures for Trade Operations, Branch Operations, Operations, Governance and Control Unit (OGC) and to assist Country Operations Head in Operation matters.
Key responsibilities:
Transaction screening
- Providing guidance to the team
- Performing QA to ensure quality of work
- Back up for screening function
- Coordinating with Compliance to ensure screening standards are met and maintained
- Training of selected staff from other Operation units for screening function
- Apply or adapt sanctions knowledge or laws/regulations to tasks
Maintain oversight of policy and procedures for Operations units
- Keep track of due dates for policies and procedures and to remind respective units in advance to perform update
- Implementing and reviewing of policy and procedures for the units
- Propose workflow/policy and procedures improvements to Country Operations Head
- Creat, maintain and perform controls to ensure the 3 units’ adherence to policy and procedures
- To work with respective departments and SMEs to review changes in local regulations and the consequent impact on the unit’s policy and procedures to ensure adherence to local regulatory requirements
Supporting Country Operations Head on Operation matters
- To liaise with auditors, to work together with other Operation units as necessary to address points
- Be point of contact for Compliance on such related topics on behalf of Operation units
- To recommend improvements/report adverse events in Operations to Country Operations Head
- To be Country Operations Head delegate for committees as appointed
- To support decision making by Senior Management involving Operations by way of maintaining knowledge of events/incidence in Operations
Other tasks
- To perform documentation check before giving approval to Branch Operations for account opening, after all necessary sign offs obtained for account opening
- To act as checker for Branch Operations for remittances
- Any other task as assigned by Country Operations Head
Minimum qualifications:
Diploma/Degree
Minimum experience and skills:
- 8 years and above relevant experience in Operations and transactions screening, preferably in Corporate Banking with exposure to Trade Finance
- Have exposure to AML/KYC as 1st line or 2nd line of defence
