Global Banking & Markets, Operations, Client On-Boarding – Rolling Review, Vice President, Singapore
YOUR IMPACT
Are you looking to apply your quantitative skills whilst honing your skillsets to combat money laundering, terrorist financing, securities fraud and other financial crimes? Our Client Onboarding team is seeking an energetic, proactive, and detailed-oriented professional to support the KYC refresh function in the Singapore office; Main functional duty will be to ensure our clients' on-going adherence to applicable Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) policies and regulatory requirements.
OUR IMPACT
Global Banking & Markets is a dynamic, multi-faceted division that partners with all parts of the firm to deliver banking, sales and trading, and asset management capabilities to clients around the world. In addition, Global Banking & Markets provides essential risk management and control to preserve the firm’s assets and its reputation. For every trade agreed, every new product launched or market entered, every transaction completed, it is this division that develops the processes and controls that facilitates business flow.
As a member of the KYC Refresh team, the individual will specialize in the review of AML/KYC information of existing institutional clients. The individual will work directly with our clients, sales, compliance, and operational partners in a fast-paced environment with precision and accuracy. The ability to prioritize, meet deadlines and communicate to all levels of the organization, including sales and compliance, is critical. Having a client service mindset is crucial as the role requires significant interaction with clients.
How you will fulfill your potential:
- Ensure due diligence is performed on existing clients to comply with AML/KYC regulations
- Develop expertise and execute Firm’s Anti-Money Laundering, Customer Due Diligence (CDD) policies and process
- Engage clients and internal business teams to obtain relevant CDD information and documentation
- Ensuring all communications are of the highest professional standard to maintain client service excellence
- Timely and effective escalation of potential issues and devising possible resolutions
- Take responsibility for delivering against committed timelines
- Participate in regular meetings with the program team to maintain clarity around workflow, understand changes to AML/KYC regulations and or expectations, and develop required reporting metrics and executional process
Skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills required to professionally and persuasively engage external clients and internal stakeholders
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office e.g. Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint
- Ability to work in a dynamic environment and changing requirement
- Excellent organizational skills with strong attention to detail given the regulatory nature of the role
- Team management capabilities, including people management skillset
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
- Experience of AML/CDD requirements either via a Client Onboarding role or similar role including an understanding of all type of client structures and requirements such as hedge funds, private corporations, financial institutions, trusts, etc
- Minimum 6 years related working experience in the financial industry or client facing role
- Proven ability to work well in a global team environment, with excellent interpersonal skills to engage and influence internal and or external stakeholders and sponsors
- Book of work planning, management, control and delivery, including process development and implementation to ensure of team productivity, and act as escalation point for any workstream issues
Preferred Qualifications
- Business to native level in written and spoken language for either Mandarin, Japanese or Korean to help existing foreign clients comply with AML/KYC regulatory requirements and interact with foreign external stakeholders
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