Head of FCP Transaction Screening

To ensure that customer transaction screening is effective and in line with firms financial crime framework and programme ensuring high standards for operational efficiency and risk appetite are maintained. Supporting the firm in enhancing its overall transaction screening capabilities across the entire business as a key priority.

General Duties

• To design and implement transaction screening rules tailored to the firms business profile and conducting sanctions investigations and reporting.
• To review escalated and complex sanctions alerts conducting in-depth investigations to resolve cases.
• To contribute to the creation of transaction screening policies and procedures and ensure implementation of improvements and maintenance of standards.
• To help deliver sanctions education awareness and training to the team and wider business as required ensuring that new trends are identified and communicated.
• To ensure continuous calibration gap analysis risk assessment and testing reports to ensure effectiveness of transaction system and to ensure in line with industry standards.
• To oversee the preparation weekly & monthly MI and KPI reports to senior management team and key stakeholders.
• To play a key role in delivering transaction screening projects collaborating with Global Technology Solutions and supporting engagement with internal and external vendors to ensure successful vendor and change rollouts.
• To ensure adequate resources available to deliver targets and meet firms SLA. Proving training and assistance with recruitment if required.
• To develop and strengthen relationships with key project personnel and across group entities.
• Assistance with external and internal audit investigations and reports as required.
• Other duties as assigned from time to time

Knowledge and Experience

• Strong understanding of financial crime prevention requirements in regulated financial institutions
• Extensive expertise in SWIFT ISO screening standards regulatory sanctions and all other applicable laws and regulations.
• Minimum 2 years experience in sanctions systems implementation calibration and fine tunning of sanctions models.
• Excellent critical thinking with the ability to analyse situations and solve problems delivering practical and compliant financial crime prevention risk management
• Knowledge of regulatory reporting and regulatory operations

Qualification and Skills

• Bachelors Degree in Business Law or other appropriate discipline
• Strong and efficient decision making skills with the ability to use judgement and operate autonomously when required
• Effective planning organisational and time management skills
• Relationship building and communications skills
• Excellent stakeholder management with the ability to see the bigger picture and deal effectively with competing priorities
• Ability to proactively identify and analyse problems and design effective solutions with the appropriate oversight and governance
• Ability to lead and manage people and achieve results through others
• Able to use good judgement and experience to articulate and document decision making rationale
• Additional language skills would be an advantage in our global business environment.

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