AML Specialist

2 days ago

Selayang Municipal Council, Malaysia UOB Full time
About Us
United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading financial institution in Asia with a global network of over 500 branches and offices in 19 countries and territories. Our history spans more than 80 years, guided by our values — Honorable, Enterprising, United and Committed. We strive to do what is right, build for the future, work as one team, and pursue long-term success.

About The Role
As part of the Group Wholesale Banking, Anti-Financial Crimes Operations (AFC Ops) Corps / FIs AFC Ops Team, you will be responsible for ensuring that 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. You will support various business segments within Group Wholesale Banking, comprising Corporates and Financial Institutions, in performing CDD reviews, meeting regulatory requirements, and growing the business.

Key Responsibilities
* Prepare documentation and conduct CDD in a timely manner
* Liaise with Relationship Managers on required documentation
* Ensure ongoing CDD reviews are conducted in tandem with internal processes and policies
* Ensure data accuracy in systems and documentation
* Extract data from worksheets and reports for distribution to respective Business Units for necessary follow-up actions
* Assist Business Units in responding to various CDD inquiries originating from local authorities or correspondent banks
* Perform screening assessments and escalate material hits, where applicable, for further clearance
* Assist the Team Leader in providing regular statistics and presentations for updating Senior Management
* Participate in ad-hoc assignments and projects, e.g., audit, user acceptance testing, etc.

Requirements
The ideal candidate should possess:
  • Tertiary qualification and above
  • Prior working experience in KYC/CDD roles, 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 performing functions on Excel, such as Vlookup, Pivoting, and generating graphs/charts
  • 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; ability to speak/read additional languages 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 negotiate

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