AML/KYC Compliance Specialist

4 days ago

Selayang Municipal Council, Malaysia UOB Full time
About Us
United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in Asia with a global presence, serving over 500 branches and offices across 19 countries. We operate through our head office in Singapore and subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand, providing Group Business Services (GBS) to support the UOB Group.

We have been guided by our core values of Honorable, Enterprising, United, and Committed for over 80 years. Our team is passionate about delivering trusted financial solutions that enable business growth, and we are looking for talented individuals to join us in this mission.

About The Role
The selected candidate will be assigned to the AML & KYC Team, responsible for ensuring customer due diligence (CDD) programs are in place, incorporating customer identification and verification (ID&V), know your customer (KYC), anti-money laundering (AML) principles, and Sanctions oversight. This role entails preparing documentation, conducting CDD reviews, liaising with Relationship Managers, and ensuring data accuracy in systems and documentations.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Preparation of documentation and conduct CDD in a timely manner
  • Liaise with RMs on the required documentation
  • Ensure 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 local authorities or correspondent banks
  • 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.

Requirements:
  • Tertiary holder and above
  • Prior working experience in KYC / CDD 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 / CDD specialist
  • Good command of both written and spoken English. The ability to speak / read additional languages is an advantage
  • Able to raise sensitive or potentially contentious issues in a constructive manner to arrive at appropriate solutions
  • Self-driven and a team player with strong interpersonal skills to communicate, influence and negotiation
  • Certification as an AFC specialist (e.g., CAMS / Diploma in AML, Governance and Risk) with a recognized institution will be an advantage

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