Senior AML Analyst needed at CREDO
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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