Business Compliance Manager M/F

Reporting to the Chief of Staff, the Business Compliance Manager (“BCM”) ensures the overall management of risks of Wealth Management activities of the Singapore Branch. This includes identifying, assessing, mitigating and monitoring regulatory, reputational, operational risks and other risks applicable to the Front Office.

You will have the opportunity to support the below tasks, but not limited to:

1. Support Front Office (Relationship Managers and Client Service Officers) in performing the KYC review for the onboarding of new clients including but not limited to:
1. Assessing and mitigating screening hits;
2. Extracting additional Compliance reports (e.g., name screening details or Company registry searches);
3. Analyzing and supplementing the source of wealth and source of revenues to ensure that these are plausible and sufficiently corroborated;
4. Escalating to relevant stakeholders including Compliance and Market Heads for inputs and feedback.

1. Provide preliminary advice to the Front Office for new prospects by identifying and reviewing potential risks of prospects and liaising with relevant departments for guidance.
2. Support Front Office in performing the AML Periodic Account Review where required.
3. Provide guidance, training and sharing best practices with Front Office to improve the overall quality of the KYC.
4. Understand the various Risk related directives and policies (e.g., AML/Sanctions, Regulatory, Cross-border, Commercial Strategy, Credit, Legal, HR, etc.) of the Bank and regulatory requirements and ensuring proper application and compliance by the Front Office.
5. Ongoing monitoring of outstanding actions required by the Front Office (e.g., AML cards, AML transaction/screening alerts, Documentation items, etc.).
6. Implementing and monitoring the progress of Risk campaigns that are initiated by Head Office and the Branch.
7. Prepare periodic reporting to relevant stakeholders at the Head Office and Branch level.
8. Close collaboration with Front Office in order to understand and advocate for the Front Office and Customer’s needs.
9. Representative/Point of liaison for Front Office in engagements with relevant stakeholders on various risk areas, including but not limited to Compliance, Client Documentation, Legal.
10. Support EMBP in the execution of risk controls and any other initiatives or projects.
11. Support Market Heads for any day-to-day or adhoc risk areas where required.