Senior Administrator, Client Due Dilligence at SANNE

Role summary:

We are seeking a Senior Administrator, reporting to a Director within the Channel Islands on boarding team within Sanne, to provide comprehensive day to day assistance for end to end on-boarding process of new clients engaged to Sanne entities in the Channel Islands, including fulfilment of AML & CDD requirements, screening against Sanctions lists, for adverse media and PEPs as well as maintenance of existing client CDD/AML files.

Key responsibilities:

• Provide support to the client facing team for the onboarding of new clients and investors, for local and cross jurisdictional structures;
• Work with the client facing teams to address CDD refresh or changes / trigger events to the client structures;
• Demonstrate understanding of the CDD/AML procedures at all times, and ensuring that high risk matters receive appropriate level of attention escalation and sign off;
• Review and sign off CDD files as Quality Control;
• Be able to apply risk based approach independently when reviewing CDD;
• Ensuring that all day to day matters required to be completed are performed in a timely and satisfactory manner, including monitoring tasks and monitoring the email inbox for the Team and allocate accordingly;
• Communicating with internal teams to ensure CDD collection is undertaken promptly; following up as necessary to manage outstanding CDD;
• Assist the Director with client outreach for periodic CDD refresh, any trigger events, remediation of existing CDD and ad hoc on-boarding related projects;
• Assist the Director with the drafting and monitoring of internal policies and procedures;
• Organise own workload to ensure that reviews are undertaken in accordance with the required timeframes, as set out by Sanne policy or your line manager;
• Ensure records are kept up to date and accurate, verifying, scanning, archiving CDD into electronic filing and hard copy storage;
• Collection of due diligence (including subsequent periodic review) and tax information for clients and investors to ensure compliance with relevant AML regulations and group policy;
• Ensure that screening is performed on new and existing client/entities at both take on and reassessments (trigger events), ensuring that negative; news / PEPs and confirmed hits are escalated appropriately.

Requirements

Skills / experience:

• Finance sector experience of 2 years + working within a financial environment;
• Relevant professional as AML, CDD, Compliance, ICA, STEP, ICSA, or equivalent or studying towards;
• Experience in Customer Due Diligence (CDD/KYC) on corporate complex structures;
• Understanding of Money Laundering (Jersey) Order 2008 and FATF;
• Knowledge and experience in alternative asset and/or corporate administration services;
• Have a good working knowledge of Microsoft products, in particular Excel, Outlook and Word as well as screening software such as WorldCheck/World Check One;
• Service and client minded at heart;
• Flexible thinking and ability to adapt to change;
• Ability to communicate, engage and build relationships across the organisation and externally;
• Take ownership, responsibility and accountability;
• Ability to spot and articulate opportunities to improve effectiveness and efficiency;
• Organised and able to maintain client documents with integrity and confidentiality;
• Strong team player.