Assisted the Head of Money Laundering & Terrorist Financing Control by providing support, guidance and advice with regards to the Enhanced Due Diligence process in order to enable the bank to comply with the requirements of Money Laundering & Terrorist Financing legislation.
Conducted a detailed analysis and investigation of potentially high risk customers in terms of the Group Minimum Standards for customer acceptance
Reported all profiles that were non-compliant to Group ML.
- Interacted with compliance representatives to assess potential unusual activity.
- Completed detailed analysis to detect patterns, trends, anomalies and schemes in transactions and relationships across multiple businesses and products.
- Researched and verified parties involved in suspicious activities and transactions against various databases such as LexisNexis and World-Check.
- Performed risk-based analysis and remediation for business and consumer accounts per banking guidelines.
- Used transactional and customer records, external data and publicly available information to identify suspicious or unusual activity.
- Communicated with various business units to obtain necessary information for investigations.
- Designed improvements to key controls to reduce financial crimes risk.
- Identified and researched patterns, trends and anomalies in transactional and customer data to detect and prevent suspicious activity related to money laundering and terrorist financing.
- Communicated negative findings to lines of business and supplied guidance on course of action.
- Developed or tracked quality metrics.
- Coordinated recall or market withdrawal activities as necessary.
- Provided pre-, ongoing, and post-inspection follow-up assistance to governmental inspectors.
- Implemented regulatory guidance procedures for [Area of expertise].
- Prepared and submitted regulatory file applications and supporting documentation.
- Wrote or updated standard operating procedures, work instructions or policies.
- Interpreted regulatory rules or rule changes and communicated with others through corporate policies and procedures.
- Received, researched and resolved consumer inquiries.