Compliance Officer

Onepip; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services company in Kuala Lumpur is seeking a Compliance Officer to ensure adherence to regulatory requirements of the Bank Negara Malaysia. The role involves providing compliance assistance, conducting risk assessments, and coordinating regulatory responses. Ideal candidates should have over 5 years in financial services and relevant AML/CFT certifications. This position is vital for fostering compliance awareness and supporting business units in managing compliance risks.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in remittance services or financial institutions.
• Registered with GOCO established by MAMSB.
• Completed accredited AML/CFT training modules.

Responsibilities

• Provide compliance assistance and advisory support to business units.
• Conduct customer due diligence and risk assessments.
• Coordinate responses to regulators such as Bank Negara Malaysia.

Skills

Regulatory compliance

Risk assessments

Customer due diligence

Compliance training

Education

Certification in AML/CFT compliance

Job description

Will serve as the Compliance Officer responsible for ensuring the company’s business and transactions adhere to Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) Money Service Business (MSB) Act, and be responsible for establishing internal strategies, policies, procedures, and processes related to monitoring and fostering awareness of regulatory requirements that ONEPIP must comply with.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for Regulatory Compliance in providing compliance assistance and advisory support to business units.
• Assist business units to identify compliance risks and perform risk assessments on those risks.
• Conduct customer due diligence, review, investigate and provide disposition of potential concerns that occur in an account, transaction, relationship, securities, or holdings.
• Conduct a compliance review to determine the level of compliance against applicable regulatory requirements.
• Monitor developments in regulatory requirements and disseminate such updates to Senior Management, management, and staff, where relevant.
• Manage the maintenance of the compliance universe database to ensure all relevant regulatory requirements are updated and complete.
• Perform gap analysis on new/ revised regulatory requirements (e.g. BNM’s MSB Act) to ascertain the impact on the Company’s business, policies, procedures, and business practices and monitor that any necessary mitigation action plan is carried out.
• Perform control testing to ensure existing compliance controls are effective and adequate.
• Compile and coordinate all statutory submissions for regulatory authorities, including the compilation of documents for supervisory assessment.
• Coordinate responses to regulators such as Bank Negara Malaysia.
• Conduct training/briefing to relevant staff on any regulatory matters as well as to conduct compliance awareness programmes.
• Assist to prepare compliance reports or updates reporting to the head office compliance committee, board, and necessary stakeholders.
• Interacting with relevant teams to raise awareness of Sanctions trends, emerging issues, remedial actions, or enhancements to the program.

Qualifications

• Preferably a minimum of 5 years of professional experience in remittance services/financial institutions, or a related field.
• Either currently or formerly registered with the money service business Group of Compliance Officers (GOCO) established by MAMSB.
• Have successfully completed the accredited AML/CFT training modules, including the post-training assessments, developed by GOCO on areas related to the AML/CFT framework customer due diligence process, handling of suspicious transactions as well as risk-based ML/TF risk management.
• Be duly certified/accredited by the relevant recognized certification/accreditation bodies as having acquired the knowledge required to effectively perform AML/CFT compliance function in a money service business.