CCO_Senior Compliance Manager

Scope and Purpose

• Providing regulatory and compliance advice to business units ensuring compliance with all applicable statutory, regulatory and group standard;
• Working closely with sales and trading team to monitor pre-trade and post trade activities, and providing real time support on trading restrictions,  monitoring and approvals;
• Liaising with local regulators and handling regulatory inquiries, inspections, questionnaires, incident reporting, surveys and other ad hoc requests;
• Tracking and disseminating regulatory updates to business units for necessary actions, and collaborating with business owners to conduct gap analysis to ensure relevant requirements are complied with;
• Participating in various projects, such as new products initiatives and implementation of new regulations;
• Handling registration, de-registration of Relevant individual & Responsible Officer and corporate licensing related to regulated activities;
• 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;
• conduct enhanced due diligence on high risk client on-boarding requests, including identification and assessment of any financial crime risksconduct enhanced due diligence on high risk client on-boarding requests, including identification and assessment of any financial crime risks, reputational risks and the plausibility and corroboration of source of wealthconduct enhanced due diligence on high risk client on-boarding requests, including identification and assessment of any financial crime risks, reputational risks and the plausibility and corroboration of source of wealthManaging reporting information and risk assessment flows towards Head Office Compliance, and providing compliance advisory for day to day business activities.

Required Experience

• Minimum 7 years of Regulatory 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;
• Deep understanding of the Hong Kong regulatory environment and Knowledge of international Compliance regulations and practices;
• Ability to research laws and regulations and provide advice on the applicability within a given environment;
• Knowledge of financial institutions, correspondent banking and trade finance products and services;
• Positive attitude towards colleagues and the organisation to ensure seamless communication;
• Chinese fluent (both written and spoken); English fluent (both written and spoken), Italian is an advantage;
• Excellent detailed-oriented skill set; Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities; Excellent detailed-oriented skill set;
• Ability to synthetize large volume of information and identify key issues, and to produce high quality work within challenging deadlines.