Compliance Catalyst Manager

Job Description
Compliance Catalyst Manager (4658)

Forvis Mazars cares about your career progression, offering individually designed career paths that help you pursue your interests, match your changing needs, and explore your true potential. We work with diverse, prestigious clients across a range of sectors and geographies, giving you the opportunity to constantly update and grow your skills for lifelong professional development.

About the team

Our Business Services team is a collective of creative, strategic, forward-thinking business enablers. Together the People & Culture, Marketing & Communications, IT, Operations, Finance and Quality & Risk Management teams make it their mission to ensure Forvis Mazars has the right tools, technology, strategies, and services in place to deliver exceptional client service and future-proof our growing business.

About the role

• In this newly created role, you'll be crucial in managing the firm's financial crime risk compliance, promoting quality, fostering the right culture, and safeguarding the firm. Supporting management with implementing, reviewing, and assessing the effectiveness of controls related to financial crime risk.
• Compliance Catalyst is a Moody's Risk Database tool adopted by Forvis Mazars Group (Orbis database) for the client due diligence and client onboarding process purposes.
• You'll use the Compliance Catalyst tool to approve clients as part of the firm's client acceptance and continuance processes, whilst assisting client teams in maintaining high standards and embedding quality in our firm's practices.
• Collaborating and communicating effectively to influence stakeholders at all levels, whilst raising awareness and building a culture of compliance across Partners and all staff.

Client Acceptance and Continuance

• Take ownership of the Compliance Catalyst tool and the entire end to end system process, including providing technical expertise and addressing business queries related to the tool.
• Act as a liaison with the Group to seek assistance for any technical queries or issues related to the Compliance Catalyst tool.
• Review client risk assessments and alerts (PEPs/adverse media) in Compliance Catalyst to confirm appropriate CDD documentation is attached and reach out to client teams for any missing information/documents.
• Assist client teams and junior compliance team members with client acceptance and continuance queries, ensuring consistent application of CDD / AML policies and Compliance Catalyst process.
• Act as an SME in applying the CDD policy and a risk-based approach in accordance with the 2017 AML regulations when reviewing adverse media alerts, Politically Exposed People (“PEP”) alerts, and other KYC information on the Compliance Catalyst tool.
• Review and advise on various financial crime matters, including AML issues related to Customer Due Diligence (CDD), and draft summaries on clients' risks within the Compliance Catalyst tool.
• Participate in the Client Due Diligence process for onboarding, periodic reviews, and trigger event reviews. Analyse KYC information and documents, and contact client teams to complete CDD requirements, as required.
• Coordinate with the Client Engagement Centre (a separate team dealing with obtaining the client due diligence documentation as part of the client's onboarding process) on client onboarding queries related to PEPs and adverse media alerts on the Compliance Catalyst tool. Respond to AML and CDD queries related to Compliance Catalyst CDD tool, including alerts, system issues, checks, summaries.
• If required, to perform/assist with Politically Exposed Person (PEP) reviews for client teams.

What are we looking for?

• Strong working knowledge of the UK Money Laundering Regime
• Highly motivated and self-sufficient with a drive to continue developing subject matter knowledge
• Strong communication skills – ability to communicate complex scenarios simply, clearly and briefly
• Analytical and interpretation skills with excellent attention to detail
• Good time management and organisational skills, and able to work on their own and within a team context as well as to tight deadlines.
• Strong IT skills with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

About Forvis Mazars

Forvis Mazars is a leading global professional services network. The network operates under a single brand worldwide, with just two members: Forvis Mazars LLP in the United States and Forvis Mazars Group SC, an internationally integrated partnership operating in over 100 countries and territories.

Both member firms share a commitment to providing an unmatched client experience, delivering audit & assurance, tax and advisory services around the world. Together, our strategic vision strives to move our clients, people, industry and communities forward. Through our reach and areas of expertise, we help organisations respond to emerging sustainability issues in the global marketplace including human rights, climate change, environmental impacts and culture.

We are one diverse, multicultural, multi-team with a huge sense of connection and belonging. This is a place where you can take ownership of your career, get involved, believe in yourself and put your ideas into action.

At Forvis Mazars, we empower our people and celebrate individuality. We thrive on teamwork and are agile. We have bold foresight and give people the freedom to make a personal contribution to our shared purpose. We support one another to deliver quality, create change and have a deeper understanding, to help make an impact so that everyone can reach their full potential.

Being inclusive is core to our culture at Forvis Mazars; we want to ensure everyone, whether in the recruitment process or beyond is fully supported to be their unique self. To read more about our approach click here

Our aim is to make the recruitment process as accessible and inclusive as possible - please contact us to discuss any changes you may require so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.

Visit forvismazars.com/uk to learn more.