Aml Specialist and Team Lead

1 day ago

Cape Town, South Africa Tracking Talent Full time

**Objective of the AML Specialist and Team Lead role**

**Investment group looking for a Anti Money laundering Specialist and Team lead to join their team.**

The purpose of the role is to provide a financial crime combating-, sanctions[1]and anti-money laundering (AML) Centre of Excellence function in Investment Group to mitigate and manage the risk that businesses and its subsidiaries may be used for money laundering, the financing of terrorism or any other form of financial crime.

The role will incorporate requirements that are mandated by the Group Compliance function, including facilitating and assisting the businesses to implement them.

It also includes activities related to the AML operational management of the 1st line AML function for several of the businesses.

**What will make you successful in this role**

Develop, document, maintain and continuously improve the enterprise-wide

financial crime risk management framework by attending to the following:

- Proactively identify and assess financial crime related risks and identify, initiate, lead and guide remedial actions, including to effectively manage the financial-, reputational-, regulatory
- and compliance risks associated with financial crime related regulation, including AML legislation;
- Assist with developing, maintaining and implementing group-wide minimum standards for AML/CFT and sanctions screening to which each entity must adhere;
- Develop, implement and maintain governance processes for the AML/CFT Risk Management and Compliance Programme (“RMCP”):

- Providing advice and guidance to entities in to develop, enhance and maintain a risk-based approach to AML/CFT compliance across various international jurisdictions;
- Provide specialist advice to its business clusters with a focus on regulatory requirements, standards and best practice in the fields of financial crime and AML/CFT; and
- Advise on strategic and integrated risk solutions for the resolution of complex AML/CFT-, sanctions
- and financial crime related business and regulatory challenges.

**Key Responsibilities**

AML Centre of Excellence:

- Identification and highlighting of possible money laundering activities and reporting thereof.
- Ensure proper investigation of suspicious transactions or money laundering alerts.
- Ensuring that transactions on which enquiries are raised, are executed to the required standards.

**JOB SPECIFICATION AML SPECIALIST AND TEAM LEAD**
- Maintain an up to date understanding of money laundering and terrorist financing issues, including policies, procedures, regulations, industry best practice, criminal typologies and developing trends.
- Chairing of the AML Forum
- Management of requests between the Cluster and Group Compliance
- Escalation point of all complex on-boarding matters
- Reviews of AI’s RMCP’S and Supporting Documentation
- Drafting of AML Standards
- Managing and highlighting Reputational Risk relating to areas of non[1]compliance
- Train and assist employees to improve their AML knowledge and enhance their compliant behaviours.

Working with the AML Project Manager on all AML Project Matters and deliverables thereof:

- Lead on implementation of AML Gap Analysis Project, including Onboarding and Transaction Monitoring automation
- Management of the 1st Line AML Operations Function
- Management of AML Remediation Project Team

**Minimum requirements**
- Bachelor's degree in law, commerce or business science.
- At least 7 years of experience in AML/CFT in the financial services sector -experience in an asset/investment management environment would be advantageous.

Experience with larger, globally operating financial institutions is preferred;
- Experience in working with AML/CFT-, ABAC-, sanctions
- and financial crime risk management and compliance technology solutions (software and systems) will be a recommendation.
- Sound knowledge and proficiencies in the use of AML/CFT-, ABAC- and sanctions screening tools, analytical software solutions and investigative technologies.

**Knowledge and Skills**
- Compliance and legal related project management
- Compliance advice and training
- Documentation and reviews
- Risk Management

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