Manager - Financial Crime Compliance (Transaction Monitoring & Investigation)

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Manager - Financial Crime Compliance (Transaction Monitoring & Investigation)

Overview

The Transaction Monitoring & Investigation Manager will be responsible for leading the team that develops, implements, and enhances the group's Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML / CFT) framework. This includes identifying, assessing, and mitigating money laundering and terrorism financing risks, ensuring the proper implementation of policies and procedures across the business units, and providing continuous training and awareness programs. The manager will also be responsible for maintaining relationships with regulators and enforcement agencies and reporting suspicious transactions to Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM). This role will be reporting to the Head of Financial Intelligence Unit.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Manage team resources and workflow : Manages resource allocation and productivity to ensure the team can handle the workload. Oversees the alert review process to meet service level agreements (SLAs). Also to contribute to the preparation of Management Information (MI) reports on transaction monitoring activities, trends, and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Investigate suspicious transactions : Ensures proper investigation of suspicious transactions related to potential money laundering and terrorism financing alerts.
• Provide advisory and support : Guides the team in providing advisory support to Business Units on Anti-Money Laundering / Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML / CFT) matters.
• Risk management and project participation : Supports the identification of money laundering / terrorism financing gaps, executes plans to minimize risks, and participates in AML / CFT projects and the Risk Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) process.
• Issue tracking and escalation : Tracks significant issues from various reviews and inspections, providing validation of issue closure. Proactively escalates significant issues, potential regulatory breaches, or suspicious findings to management.

Jobholder Requirement

Education / Qualification

Experience

What’s next?

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Seniority level : Mid-Senior level

Employment type : Full-time

Job function : Management and Analyst

Industries : Financial Services, Banking, and Investment Banking

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