As a Compliance Officer, you will be part of the Compliance & Risk Department.
Job scope includes the following:
- Work closely with the Head of Compliance, Risk & MLRO, together with members of the local and global compliance team and other internal functions, to ensure that processes, system and controls are in place and reflect applicable Group and local regulatory requirements.
- Keep pace with regulatory changes, perform a gap analysis on new regulations and undertake an assessment of the relevant changes against current policies and procedures.
- Assist with regulatory audits and inspections.
- Undertake risk assessments and periodic reviews in accordance with the Compliance Monitoring Plan.
- Assist with monitoring the effectiveness of the systems, policies and procedures designed to manage compliance risk and proactively assist and make recommendations for improvements to systems, policies and procedure.
- Review of client account opening requests (private clients, companies, institutional clients, financial institutions, external asset managers, introducing brokers) from an AML/CTF standpoint (MAS, FATF, OFAC) including name screening, PEP review, background research etc.
- Undertake periodic and ad hoc name screening, review hits and clear alerts.
- Proactively identify gaps, highlight any potential concerns/risks, recommend remediation actions and share best practices to enhance existing policies and processes.
- Preparation of internal training material on compliance-related topics.
- Participation in ad hoc local/Group compliance and regulatory projects.
- Provide compliance advice and support to the Front line sales team and Management.
- Perform any other duties as may be assigned by the Company from time to time.
