Assistant Vice President, Customer Risk Monitoring & Control

As a core member of the middle office, support Department Head in leading, planning, developing, and directing the implementation of the department’s strategy and framework; assist in ensuring the branches maintain adequate risk and operation policies/guidelines and full compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies and procedures.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist the Department Head in developing, maintaining, and implementing operation manuals, policies, and guidelines.

• Support the monitoring and approval of AML annual review/trigger events for high and medium risk accounts.

• Handle circulars from regulatory bodies, review existing procedures, and recommend changes if necessary.

• Follow up on audit reviews, communicate findings with relevant branches, revert to product owners for review, and provide timely training and procedure updates.

• Maintain good working relationships and sufficient communication with relevant stakeholders, including Legal & Compliance and other related parties, on major issues raised by or with regulators or branch staff.

• Respond to enquiries from and act as a liaison with staff members from branches, internal and external auditors, and regulatory bodies, etc. on AML-related matters.

• Monitor progress of FATCA and CRS annual reviews.

• Provide guidance and oversight to team members, whenever required and handle other duties as assigned by the supervisor

Minimum Requirements:

• Degree holder in Business Administration or related discipline; holder of Certified AML Professional (CAMLP) or Associate AML Professional (AAMLP) preferred.

• Minimum 10 years of relevant FCC/ CDD and team lead experience in established bank or financial institution

• Strong understanding on banking products, services, operations procedures as well as industry and regulatory standards

• Knowledgeable with various risk disciplines such as credit and operational risk management

• Strong analytical, research, and problem-solving skills with sound interpersonal and leadership skills

• IT skills proficiency with strong data analytic skills an advantage.

• Good command of spoken and written English and Chinese