AML Screening Analyst at DocFox

How you can make a difference
The DocFox Compliance Team work together to provide a spectrum of comprehensive financial crime compliance related services to clients.

These range from providing sound advice and training regarding legislation, regulations, industry standards, guidelines and best practice, to managing screening watchlists or undertaking operational projects on behalf of our clients through the application of pragmatic, risk-based principles.

As part of the larger organisation, we support our colleagues in their quest for knowledge around financial crime compliance and are always on call to help them figure out a challenge or work with them on new ideas for our software solution or product and service offerings.

In a perfect world, each team member would be able to support clients and colleagues across the full range of services and functions, however, Rome wasn’t built in a day so as the team develops and the client offering evolves, we will look to leverage strengths, build on foundations and interests, develop skills and share knowledge to raise the bar and provide opportunities for the entire team.

By guiding and supporting our clients in identifying, mitigating and reporting money laundering and financial crimes that result from predicate crimes, we can make a tangible impact in protecting our society, economy, environment and wildlife.

Key Accountabilities
We are resourceful problem solvers with a focus on assisting our clients to run their business in a compliant way. We do this by providing best-in-class professional solutions whilst adding value to our overall service and product offering. That means that what we do is often driven by the needs of our clients, business and our wider team.

However, these are some of the core areas of ownership and accountability that this role will have:

•  Developing and maintaining a keen understanding of FICA and its key requirements around due diligence, with particular focus on Prominent and Politically Exposed Persons, Sanctions and screening clients for risk
•  Ensuring that our DocFox watchlist of higher risk persons and entities within our screening tool are kept relevant, accurate and up to date through ongoing monitoring and research
•  Assisting with the review and analysis of reports into high-profile events (e.g. VBS, Digital Vibes, State Capture) to identify potential persons and entities to include in screening lists
•  Update and refresh existing data
•  Ability to conduct an Enhanced Due Diligence on high risk persons
•  Ability to investigate and research voluminous data and articles related to ML/TF/CFT
•  Providing support and assistance to the Compliance Services and other DocFox teams as appropriate
•  Adhoc list requirements as determined by the Compliance Team

This is a role which will draw on your faculties of curiosity, empathy, problem solving, organisation skills and creativity and will require you to elicit the best out of your own character and those in our team.

Experience, skills and knowledge suited to the role

•  An understanding and interest in money laundering, terrorist financing and other financial related crimes
•  A keen interest in the news, especially related to law enforcement
•  A confident ability in the written word (primarily English, with other African languages a bonus)
•  Ability to absorb information quickly to identify its relevance and summarise concisely
•  A self-motivated, persistent, and resourceful problem solver, able to use a variety of tools to research and confirm information
•  Advanced excel skills will be beneficial to this role
•  Attention to detail and accuracy of capturing information is important
•  Knowledge of internet search engines and public databases
•  Comfortable with data entry and basic spreadsheets
•  Ability to think and work independently
•  Presentation / training skills wouldbe beneficial
•  Minimum of 18 months experience in a KYC / AML role