Anti-Money Laundering Specialist

Title: Compliance Executive

Division: Onboarding / KYC team

Industry: Fintech

Scope: Anti-Money Laundering (AML)

Cross border Financial business requires a Compliance Officer to meet Bank Negara Malaysia requirement. Compliance Officer ensures a company functions in a legal and ethical manner while meeting its business goals.

The ideal candidate will show high motivation, lots of energy, be a hard-worker and a quick learner. In addition, the candidate should be able to work as a team player but also independently. The position often requires long hours during busy periods.

Onboarding/KYC team

Responsibilities:

• Implementing AML/CFT Compliance Policy and Procedures approved by Board and senior management.

• Perform customer due diligence (CDD)/enhanced customer due diligence (ECDD) for corporate customer onboarding

• Perform customer due diligence (CDD)/enhanced customer due diligence (ECDD) for remittance partner onboarding, which includes assessing the prospect remittance partners AML/CFT Compliance program implementation and relevant CDD/EDD documents.

• Conduct ongoing CDD/EDD on customers/remittance partners for any material change in the business relationship and update any change in customer's information

• Conduct transaction monitoring/analysis to detect suspicious transaction and raise internal Suspicious transaction report

• Review the compliance alerts and prepare periodic ongoing monitoring reports

• Assist in establishing mechanisms and formulate procedures to implement AML/CFT policies and internal controls

• Participate in new product development and business practices to assess the potential ML/TF risks

Requirements:

• Experienced in Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance, with a strong focus on Know Your Customer (KYC) processes, customer due diligence, sanctions screening.

• Must be proficiency with Microsoft Office suite, including advanced Excel (V Lookup, Pivot Tables, Marco etc.), Access, statistic technique and basic understanding of accounting knowledge.

• Sensitive to figures and able to apply professional skepticism

• Having experience in fast-growing transactional/technology company is an advantage

• Able to work independently with minimum supervision

• Take turn work on public holidays

• Malaysian Only

Location: Bangsar South, Kuala Lumpur (Accessible by LRT Kerinchi - Kelana Jaya line)