CCO_Senior Anti Financial Crime (AFC) Compliance Manager

Scope and Purpose

• Providing AFC advisory to related functions on an on-going basis, including onboarding and name screening sanction matters, ensuring compliance with all applicable statutory, regulatory and group standard;
• Conduct open source and external database searches to mitigate and potential impact of adverse information on investigation transactions;
• Communicate and coordinate with relevant departments on the requirements of the periodic institutional risk assessment;
• Conducting quality assurance and samples testing based on the second level controls framework;
• Escalating compliance breaches internally and investigating issues, and recommending remedial and mitigate measures;
• Drafting STR reports if any suspicious transaction identified;
• Accountable to ensure the audit trail is complete for all alerts and cases;
• Coordinate and prepare the required management information reporting data to Head Office Compliance;
• Assist in ad hoc tasks as assigned.

Required Experience

• Minimum 7 years of Anti Financial Crimes (mainly AML and Sanctions) Compliance advisory experience either in banks/financial institutions/local regulators;
• Sound Knowledge of the HKMA, SFC and Banking regulations with strong analytical, technical and problem-solving skills.

Required Qualifications, Skills and Knowledge

• University degree in law, finance and/or economics;
• Strong knowledge in Financial Crime Compliance and deep understanding in the regulatory development and the trend in the market;
• Holder of Professional qualification of CAMLP/CAMS or equivalent qualification.
• Chinese fluent (both written and spoken); English fluent (both written and spoken), Italian is an advantage.