Assistant Vp, Aml Investigation

1 week ago

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia UOB Innovation Hub 2 Sdn. Bhd. Full time

**About UOB**:
United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in Asia with a global network of around 500 offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. UOB's purpose is to build the future of ASEAN. Our purpose guides The UOB Way - that defines our unique culture and belief system, anchored on our values of being Honourable, Enterprising, United and Committed, and our people philosophy of Care, Growth and Trust.

**About the Department**:
As part of the InnoHub2 team, you will have the opportunity to work on Group initiatives and gain regional business exposure. We are dynamic, passionate and purposeful about delivering trusted financial solutions that enables business growth. An exciting career progression with varied opportunities awaits you at IH2. Come grow your career with us.

**Responsibilities**:
The Group Compliance Anti-Financial Crime Investigation and Intelligence (“I&I”) function is responsible for safeguarding the Bank against financial crime risks relating to AML, Sanctions, Fraud and regulatory risks which may undermine the integrity of the Bank’s compliance framework. Through the conduct of proactive detection and ongoing monitoring activities, we enable timely insights, accurate identification and effective intervention against financial crime events.

The Operational Excellence Team (“OET”) provides process and quality assurance support to the Transaction Surveillance Team (“TST”) which carries out investigation on the bank’s Transaction Monitoring (“TM”) system alerts and Unusual Activity Reports (“UAR”) escalated from BU/SUs to identify potential financial crime risks to the Bank.

**Quality Review**
- Assist the team to conduct regular sampling review of transaction monitoring (TM) alerts closed by analysts, to ascertain that the investigation approach and procedures are in line with prescribed requirements and documented accordingly
- Conduct monitoring of key risk areas and metrics to ensure that alerts/UARs are reviewed and closed on a timely basis
- Conduct reconciliation to ensure that the high risk party list records are updated into Actimize timely

**Management Reporting**
- Prepare daily, weekly and monthly management report on key indicators in relation to transaction surveillance activities
- Prepare ad-hoc support to generate statistics in relation to transaction surveillance activities
- Monitor and highlight any identified exceptional trends to reviewer/ team lead

**Governance & Operational Support**
- Provide support to update operating procedure to ensure that process remains relevant
- Maintain and update training records and materials incorporating key trends, observations and procedures, identified through reviews conducted or updates shared by Head Office
- Execute training for analysts to reinforce AML knowledge and awareness of changes in trends which impacts investigations

**Job Requirements**:

- Degree or professional qualification in business, banking/financial services or equivalent
- 4 - 6 years’ experience in TM/Customer Risk intelligence/investigations/ operational risk related work or experience in audit/assurance
- Good analytical, problem solving skills and ability to dissect complex issues related to processes and systems
- Good knowledge/understanding of banking and financial services laws & regulations, compliance best practices and understanding of financial products & systems
- Good communication and presentation skills

**Be a part of UOB Family**:

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