Laundering Reporting Officer and Compliance

Join us as an experienced Financial Crime Lead/Singapore MLRO and Compliance Officer

• You’ll be an individual contributor accountable for making sure the business strategy is compliant with the financial crime policy, external laws and regulations
• You’ll support us directly in preventing money laundering, breaches of sanctions, terrorism financing, bribery and corruption, tax evasion and fraud within our franchise
• In addition, you’ll be taking on duties as a compliance officer, this will include country compliance and regulatory compliance

As an experienced Financial Crime Lead/Singapore MLRO and Compliance Officer, you’ll design business and commercial financial crime policy and mandatory procedures, making sure that they are reflective of relevant laws and regulations, while establishing and maintaining operating procedures and controls to meet the bank’s and local policy requirements.

Throughout the course of your work, you’ll be building relationships with the business, delivering advice on transactions, customers or situations that involve financial crime matters.

Additionally, you’ll:

• Oversee the development and implementation of risk and control mechanisms for the business, independently managing and challenging the effective management of risks and controls within agreed risk appetites
• Make sure that the business addresses financial crime risk concerns within the management of their customer, geographic and product portfolio life cycle
• Make sure that a stable and effective governance structure is in place for the Financial Crime function with the appropriate forums, MI and escalation routes
• Oversee the adherence to the bank’s global financial crime standards
• Support and coach colleagues and junior managers

We’re looking for someone with a deep understanding of the financial service industry, along with a robust and broad understanding of risk management principles and regulatory framework. You’ll need technical expertise of relevant political and legislative developments across the financial industry, with the ability to guide and influence business representatives on related matters.

If you have compliance advisory, country compliance or regulatory compliance experience in addition to financial crime experience we encourage you to apply.

It’s also crucial that you have the leadership skills to actively challenge how we do things.

You’ll also need:

• The ability to deliver oversight activity which can serve as indelible evidence to regulators that conduct risks have been identified within target processes
• Industry awareness of financial crime and sanctions compliance
• Knowledge of the regulatory environment, divisional frameworks and methodologies
• Working knowledge of broader risk disciplines
• The ability to build trust and demonstrate value, applying expertise to credibly influence customers, working in partnership with stakeholders