Senior AML Expert

Job Description

AML Operations mitigates money laundering and terrorist financing risks for Citi and its customers in the global marketplace. It uses skilled analysts, state-of-the-art technology and globally standard policies and procedures to ensure effective monitoring and reporting of suspicious activities. Responsibilities:
• Undertake risk gap analysis and develop corrective actions.
• Operating within agreed business requirements and confidentiality standards.
• Compile the review outcome and provide feedback on standardization of alert monitoring process across hub.
• Reviewing and authorizing transaction monitoring alerts versus quality standards.
• Performing Enhanced Case Review as applicable for the process.
• Serving as Subject Matter Expert for multiple products, in the analyst of alerts and investigation of transactional activities to detect any suspicious of money laundering of terrorist financing activity.
• Maintaining a proactive curiosity and pursue investigations to a greater level of diligence than normally required for standards due diligence process.
• Adherence to global standard policies and procedures.
• Building and applying knowledge of money laundering processes.
• Providing advice in complex cases (Training and mentoring to analysts across hub on investigative techniques, internal systems, products and money laundering regulation and policy.
• Responsibility for the implementation and operations of integrated processes and procedures aimed at the meeting internal and external regulatory or policy guidance.
• Creating and sharing after-review best practices feedback to the hub.
• Engagement in the successful accomplishment of internal Risk Control, audit and MCA policies.
• Proactive participation in projects and supporting implementation of new products and systems during UAT of systems and processes.
• Participation in projects carried out at local and global level within the AML Department.
• Providing a trainer in the FIU Department aimed at training and onboarding new employees and ensuring appropriate knowledge across the population of the FIU Department.
• Participation in migrations of new processes and products.
• Responsibility for verification of corrections in cases identified by the Quality Assurance Team as corrected not in accordance with the applicable procedure.
• Active participation in regulatory, Compliance Testing and audit reviews, including support with deliverables
• Contributing to promoting an environment of process improvement and cost savings by identifying improvement opportunities, right placement and sizing initiatives, sharing ideas and adopting the implementation of recommendations focused on achieving the overall goal of cost savings.
• Supporting implementation and executing a thorough documentation policy and standards to meet regulatory, Internal Audit
• and other third-party expectations.
Qualifications:
• 5 years of experience in AML Monitoring (1 year on AML Ops Intermediate Analyst).
• Understanding of AML Monitoring Processes confirmed with ACAMS or ICA Advanced or Diploma certification.
• Thorough knowledge of at least three business serviced by AML Department.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Very good knowledge of English.
• Demonstrated initiative and creativity in problem solving.
• Computer Literate. Proficient in Windows applications, and Internet and commercial database searches.
Education:
• Bachelor s/University degree or equivalent experience
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Keyskills :
quality assurancecompliance testingrisk controlcost savingsverbal communication