Team Head Central Screening Unit HK

Job description

Tasks

• Liaise with Front Office for additional information when required
• Complete name screening tasks according to the bank's screening standards and timelines

Tasks as a reviewer

• Review client's name screening results for account openings generated by the name screening solutions and perform first level risk assessment assessments on name hits.
• Ensure review and disposition of hits are adequately and accurately documented and provided the review results to Front Office within the required timeline.
• Complete screening reviews within required timelines and work with team members to achieve Service Level Agreement (SLA) of CSU overall.
• Request further information from Front Office, escalate potential or true hits identified to respective stakeholders.
• Provide guidance to Front Office as and when needed, according to the bank's screening policies and requirements.

Tasks as Team Head

• Supervise 4 junior officers to perform name screening reviews.
• Ensure the team's review and disposition of hits are adequately documented and cleared / escalated within the required timeline.
• Support the team to liaise with Front Office on prioritizing urgent cases.
• Be familiar with the bank's screening policies and requirements and provide relevant training and guidance to Front Office and team members from time to time.
• Engage the team's fulfillment of SLA and provide quick administrative support on prioritization of Front Office's requests.
• Initiate improvement measures to achieve operational effectiveness of the team and support on relevant process enhancements.
• Prepare management reports as required by Senior Management in a timely manner.
• Provide ad hoc support on tasks assigned by Head CDS.

Requirements

Personal and social skills

• Strong communication skills (verbal and written), negotiation and interpersonal skills
• Proactive in proposing streamlining ideas on workflow and processes, and ability to provide pragmatic solutions

Professional and technical skills

• Degree holder with at least 7 years of related banking working experience (with 2-3 years in AML / CFT Compliance functions in Private Banking environment)
• Prior experience in handling screening hit disposition is preferred
• Supervisory experience would be an advantage
• Good MS Office software knowledge, Outlook, Excel, Word
• Good command of both written and verbal in English and excellent command of Chinese language ability

Rank

• Associate Director

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