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Specialist | Institutional Client Operations | Client Data & Reporting
The role requires the candidate to actively manage the control environment and ensure robustness of controls in institutional client operations in order to comply with all regulations pertaining to AML, RMCP, FATCA, and OECD. The role will require reporting on AML statuses and other key operational metrics to always provide management with a view of key metrics. The role also aims to identify training gap in regulatory matters within institutional client operations and ensure processes and corresponding process notes remain up to date.
Job Responsibilities
Understand and stay abreast of all legislation impacting the institutional business
Collaborating with compliance and ensuring all new legislation, as well as changes to existing legislation and regulations, are understood and implemented successfully across all operational teams and regions
Ensuring the control environment is up to date and sufficiently mitigates risks of non-compliance. This requires a review of all controls and ensuring there is clear ownership for each which
Collaborating with the D365 point person in client operations on AML related items
Reporting on various statuses of compliance such as AML, suspicious transacting reporting, last verified date, FATCA, productivity measures, client service metrics, etc to management
Identify and support the training needs of institutional operations teams within agreed timescale
Assists in mitigation of compliance risk
Manage various financial crime monitoring lists in alignment with financial crime standards and procedures
Maintain daily, weekly and monthly statistics for reporting purposes
Experience and Qualifications
Relevant business degree (finance, management or law)
2 + years relevant AML experience
Sound understanding of asset management industry and in particular client operations
Knowledge of legislation, regulations and legal principles applicable to the financial services sector
Experience in facilitating training and coordinating projects will be beneficial
Competencies
Ability to identify key issues that require resolution and prioritisation based on importance and urgency
Ability to accept responsibility for all tasks done
Attention to detail
Strong analytical and problem solving skills
Very disciplined and methodical working style
Ability to plan and organise
Good communication and coordination skills
Conscientiousness
Self-motivated
Good time management skills, ability to manage heavy workload and multiple tasks