Senior AML Analyst needed at CREDO

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Job title : Senior AML Analyst

Job Location : Gauteng, Johannesburg

Deadline : January 11, 2025

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  • An excellent opportunity for an AML Analyst to join a well-established and growing Financial Services Firm based in Johannesburg. The role will require the candidate to assist with day-to-day functions performed by the compliance team, to ensure the Company complies with its UK, EU, South African regulatory obligations​

Skills & Requirements

  • Impeccable attention to detail
  • Hard working
  • Capable of prioritising tasks and managing own workload
  • Able to work individually and as part of a team
  • Desire to improve and broaden knowledge
  • Able to communicate with others confidently whilst remaining flexible/adaptable
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Demonstrate analytical competence
  • Critical thinking
  • Inquisitive, problem solving and use initiative

Essential Skills/Experience

  • Prior financial services experience, preferably in an investment or platform-based environment
  • 5+ years’ experience in AML compliance
  • Knowledge of Money Laundering Regulations in the UK and/or FICA
  • Understand financial crime risks and how to apply a risk-based approach to mitigate the risks
  • Preferably knowledge of the (UK) JMSLG Guidance
  • Knowledge of customer and enhanced due diligence, sanctions, PEP, and Adverse media screening
  • Understanding the implications of the impact of financial sanctions on financial institutions and their conduct and the consequences of breaching them (OFAC, HM Treasury, EU and UN sanctions)
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel/Word)

The Role

  • Conducting reviews of sanctions screening, PEP, and Adverse Media in relation to clients and counterparties
  • Reviewing accounts, analysing the AML/KYC Due Diligence information for a range of clients with different legal structures and in various jurisdictions in accordance with the Firm’s due diligence requirements
  • Reviewing high-risk accounts and assisting the Client Services Team with the EDD requirements
  • Provide guidance and training to other staff members on the Company’s financial crime controls and how to apply a risk based approach
  • Analysing customer relationships, documentation, activity patterns, and transactions to detect potential suspicious activity or activity that is not consistent with the client’s profile and escalating as appropriate
  • Supporting the provision of AML training to staff
  • Completing risk assessments on clients taking into account jurisdictional criteria
  • Compilation of various management reports
  • General administration
  • Projects and ad-hoc tasks as required by management
  • Prepare updates of compliance documentation
  • Deal with responses to due diligence requests on the Company​

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