Vice President in Financial Crimes Operations driving strategic analysis and workforce planning. Collaborating to manage financial crime risks and enhance operational efficiencies.
About the role
- KYC Analyst performing ongoing monitoring alerts related to financial crime detection. Collaborating with teams to ensure compliance with KYC and AML regulations at SMBC Group.
Responsibilities
- Perform daily processing of ongoing monitoring alerts related to negative news and adverse media.
- Review and analyze adverse media alerts generated through screening tools and systems.
- Conduct research using internal systems and external sources (e.g., news articles, regulatory databases, public records) to assess the relevance and severity of adverse information.
- Determine whether adverse media findings warrant escalation or further investigation.
- Document findings clearly and concisely in accordance with internal procedures.
- Collaborate with KYC onboarding and periodic review teams to ensure alignment on client risk profiles.
- Escalate potential financial crime risks (e.g., money laundering, fraud, corruption) to appropriate stakeholders.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of global regulatory developments and financial crime typologies.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives related to alert handling, screening logic, and operational efficiency.
- Support day-to-day interaction with operations teams and internal business units to respond to processing requests and ensure timely resolution to onboarding issues that may arise.
- Prepare reports and status updates to internal and external stakeholders.
- Provide operational coverage across lending operations teams and interact with other infrastructure groups to ensure that KYC and accounts are opened timely and accurately.
- Demonstrate a good understanding of KYC requirements as they relate to the completion of documents, customer identification and various due diligence.
- Demonstrate ability to understand KYC risk factors in order to complete risk assessments and draft overall risk summaries.
- Demonstrate working knowledge of AML regulations.
Requirements
- 3 to 5 years of specialized experience in Financial Services Back office operations.
- Management experience preferred.
- BA / BS (or equivalent experience) CAMS preferred
- Very strong technical knowledge of AML, Bank Secrecy Act, Foreign Asset Control.
- Very strong level knowledge of KYC (Know Your Customer) process and regulations.
- Strong knowledge of banking policies, statutory and compliance regulations.
- Strong knowledge of market practices related to compliance operations.
- Good judgement, sense of urgency and accountability; time-management skills.
- Ability to supervise and train others.
- Ability to execute in a high pressure environment.
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Competitive portfolio of benefits
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