Aml Analyst
Current• Review customer profiles and transactions to detect potential indicators of money laundering and terrorist financing activity, ensuring compliance with applicable internal policies and procedures and regulatory guidelines.• Scrutinize transactions for suspicious activities, such as large cash transactions, structuring, and transactions associated with high-risk jurisdictions, leveraging diverse internal systems, reports, and external data sources to ensure rigorous adherence to compliance standards.• Investigated suspicious activity alerts generated by monitoring systems or reported by colleagues, evaluating their significance to ascertain the necessity for further action, and subsequently presented findings to the Compliance Manager as Internal Suspicious Transaction Reports (ISTR).• Perform meticulous sanctions screening assessments on customers, transactions, and counterparties to ensure strict adherence to regulatory requirements and company policies, utilizing screening tools and databases to detect individuals, entities, and vessels listed under sanctions by UAE cabinet, UN, OFAC, EU, and other relevant authorities.• Review and analyze screening outcomes, identifying potential matches or false positives for further scrutiny, and subsequently submit investigation findings for potential matches to the Compliance Manager.• Maintain complete records of screening and transaction monitoring activities, with strict adherence to record-keeping and retention policies.• Stay updated on changes to sanctions lists, regulations, and industry best practices, ensuring continuous adherence to compliance standards.• Proactively identify the risks which are associated with Sanctions screening and Transaction Monitoring function (Real-time & offline) and mitigate them by providing tactical and strategical solutions.• Ensure all corporate customer files are timely created and updated with complete, accurate and up to date information and documentation.