Assistant Compliance Officer
Current- Responding to CBUAE, RFI, FIU, Law Enforcement Agencies, and Police Inquiry requests in a timely and efficient manner.- Conducting sanctions screening of individual and corporate customers (Onboarding and Periodic review).- Preparing and submitting STR and SAR in GOAML.- Responding to IEMS queries from FIU.- Real-time transaction monitoring and approval.- Preparing CDD/EDD reports for the purpose of Internal Audit and Central Bank Audit.- Assisting in the preparation… Show more - Responding to CBUAE, RFI, FIU, Law Enforcement Agencies, and Police Inquiry requests in a timely and efficient manner.- Conducting sanctions screening of individual and corporate customers (Onboarding and Periodic review).- Preparing and submitting STR and SAR in GOAML.- Responding to IEMS queries from FIU.- Real-time transaction monitoring and approval.- Preparing CDD/EDD reports for the purpose of Internal Audit and Central Bank Audit.- Assisting in the preparation of AML policies and procedures.- Working on alerts generated on the Transaction Monitoring System and escalating suspicious cases to the CCO.- Preparing CDD/EDD for ongoing monitoring of transactions to identify high-risk, unusual, and suspicious customers/transactions.- Preparing Standard Operating Procedures for Sanctions, Transaction Monitoring, and Regulatory Reporting.- Receiving suspicious transaction alerts from employees and analyzing them to make appropriate decisions, reporting all suspicious cases to the CCO.- Identifying problems/issues regarding suspicious activity (fraud/AML).- Reviewing and/or investigating matches against sanctions, PEPs, adverse media, and internal lists in a timely fashion and processing as appropriate.- Being responsible for monitoring day-to-day transactions of the branch for any unusual/structured/suspicious/blacklisted ones and reporting to the Chief Compliance Officer.- Conducting Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) on new onboarding clients and existing clients (periodic review) based on the customer category as well as risk category and recommending for exiting or continuing business relations.- Applying and adapting knowledge of any imposed sanctions or laws and regulations issued by the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates.- Conducting more extensive due diligence for higher-risk amounts/customers and including proactive monitoring for suspicious activities. Show less