ICM/TFFI Center of Excellence KYC/Financial Crime Risk Controls

ICM/TFFI Center of Excellence KYC/Financial Crime Risk Controls Team Lead, VP

Role Description

• The ICT CoE team is a part of the Corporate Bank and serves clients from the Institutional Cash & Trade (ICT) business.
• As part of its risk managing mandate within the business, the team is responsible for the planning and execution of account activity reviews (AARs) and other transaction-related financial crime risk controls. This includes the timely identification and escalation of potential Sanctions & Embargos and Financial Crime & Money Laundering related risks.
• We are looking for a Team Lead that is ready to take on the following responsibilities.

Your key responsibilities

Team management and administration

• Functional and disciplinary management and development of a diverse team within CoE across the Employee Life Cycle
• Representation of the team towards internal and other stakeholders (e.g. client managers, Anti Financial Crime, auditors)

Provision of subject matter expertise in transaction monitoring

• Investigation of client transactional behavior (Account Activity Reviews) to identify and document anomalies with relevant policies and KODs.
• Assessment of the quality of the transaction analyses, conducted by the team.

Process and production management.

• Conduct production planning for the assigned team, including capacity planning, case management and management reporting.
• Creation and maintenance of desktop procedures for the owned processes. This includes involvement in project and change activities on an occasional basis.

Your skills and experience

Required

• Minimum 5 years of continuous work experience in a financial institution in at least one of the fields: Correspondent Banking, Compliance, Anti Money Laundering, Transaction Monitoring, Know Your Client, Audit or Risk
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including PowerPoint.
• Demonstratable interest in leading teams and managing processes proactively, including the ability to make decisions within limited time frames and the ability to lead and organize people.
• Advanced research and data analytics skills, including Excel.
• High attention to detail, accuracy, diligence and the ability to deliver high quality results within tight deadlines.

Preferred

• First experience in people management in a functional and/or disciplinary capacity or as a project lead
• Correspondent Banking experience, including knowledge and awareness of the associated risks.
• University degree in Finance, Law, Economics, Business Administration, Banking or other relevant fields and/or equivalent professional experience