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VP, Financial Institutions Group KYC

United Overseas BankKuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan, Malaysia

30+ days ago

Job description

Posting Date : 7 Jun 2025 Location :

Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan, MY

Company : UOB Innovation Hub 2 Sdn. Bhd.

About UOB

United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in Asia with a global network of around 500 offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. UOB's purpose is to build the future of ASEAN. Our purpose guides The UOB Way – that defines our unique culture and belief system, anchored on our values of being Honourable, Enterprising, United and Committed, and our people philosophy of Care, Growth and Trust.

About the department

UOB Innovation Hub 2 (InnoHub2) is a UOB-wholly owned subsidiary and a Centre of Excellence based in Malaysia, providing Group Business Services (GBS) to support the UOB Group. Started in 2021 with technology application design, development and support, InnoHub2 is expanding beyond technology services to deliver other business services to support the Bank’s growth ambition. We are looking for talented and motivated individuals to be part of the pioneer team spearheading the development and delivery of the new services.

As part of the InnoHub2 team, you will have the opportunity to work on Group initiatives and gain regional business exposure. We are dynamic, passionate and purposeful about delivering trusted financial solutions that enables business growth. An exciting career progression with varied opportunities awaits you at IH2. Come grow your career with us.

Job Description

The Financial Institutions Group manages UOB relationships with Financial Institutions operating in Asia and across the globe. We are a client origination segment within Group Wholesale Banking responsible for managing the holistic relationship of the following client groups :

Banks
NBFIs
Global Funds & Financial Sponsors

Through understanding the needs of our clients and working closely with our product partners, GFIG establishes and distributes the bank’s global credit limits to expand our strategic business reach.

Job Responsibilities

The selected candidate will be assigned to the AML & KYC Team (“the Team”) whereby its key responsibility is to ensure that the customer due diligence (CDD) program, incorporating customer identification and verification (ID&V), know your customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) principles are in place. The team will support the various business segments within Group Wholesale Banking comprising of Corporates and Financial Institutions in performing the CDD reviews, in meeting regulatory requirements and helping to grow the business.

The role entails :

Preparation of documentation and conduct CDD in a timely manner

To liaise with RMs on the required documentation

Ensure that ongoing CDD reviews are conducted in tandem with internal process and policies

Ensure data accuracy in systems and documentations

Extraction of data from worksheets and reports for distribution to respective Business segments for necessary follow-up actions

Assisting BUs to respond to various CDD enquiries, which may originate from the local authorities or from correspondent banks, over client’s profile

Perform screening assessment and escalate material hits, where applicable for further clearance.

Assisting the Team Leader in providing regular statistics and presentations for updating to Senior Management

Participating in ad-hoc assignments and projects, e.g., audit, user acceptance testing etc. where required

Providing advisory support to the BUs in CDD related matters, where applicable

Requirements

The ideal candidate should possess the following qualities :

Tertiary holder and above

Prior working experience in KYC roles, will be advantageous

Detail-oriented, yet able to think flexibly and independently to resolve problems

Maintaining a high degree of knowledge in MAS 626 regulations and associated regulatory requirements for AML / CFT and Sanctions.

Emotionally mature and able to communicate maturely and independently with various stakeholders within the Bank

Comfortable with handling data, and able to perform functions on Excel, such as Vlookup, Pivoting and generating various graphs / charts, etc.

Attentive to details with a strong sense of interest in developing a career as a KYC specialist

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