Compliance Analyst

Talent Legal Global Search Consultancy Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Talent Legal Global Search Consultancy Pte Ltd is seeking a Compliance professional focused on KYC, AML and sanctions for APAC. You will handle onboarding checks and documentation for counterparties, investors and transaction participants in Singapore, Hong Kong and the wider region.

You will support the corporate secretary function and governance tasks, including OBI monitoring, ethics certifications, joiners/leavers, and MAR compliance across APAC.

Qualifications

• Experience in compliance including AML/sanctions is required.
• Exposure to corporate secretarial or governance support is strongly preferred.
• Experience supporting a legal and compliance team is essential.
• Financial services or in-house compliance in regulated/multi-jurisdictional environments is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Handle KYC/AML and sanctions screening for APAC, incl onboarding docs for entities in Singapore/HK.
• Support OBI monitoring and related compliance reviews.
• Assist Code of Ethics administration and track certifications.
• Manage Joiners/Leavers onboarding and certifications.
• Support UK MAR compliance, incl insider lists and PDMR records.
• Provide compliance support to corporate secretary for APAC entities.
• Triage queries to corporate secretary; route matters as needed.
• Support entity formations, dissolutions, restructurings across APAC.
• Compile KYC/docs for account opening and periodic refresh.
• Administer Business Risk Working Group, running risk certs.

Skills

AML/sanctions experience

Compliance experience

Corporate governance support exposure

Tools

Refinitiv World-Check

Salesforce

CompySci

iManage

Job description

KYC, AML and Sanctions - APAC

• Handling KYC, AML and sanctions screening and monitoring relating to the APAC region, including inbound KYC requests, onboarding checks and documentation for counterparties, investors and transaction participants based in or connected to Singapore, Hong Kong and the wider region.

Global Compliance Programme Support

• Supporting outside business interest (OBI) monitoring and related compliance reviews.
• Supporting Code of Ethics administration, including tracking completed certifications and related reconciliations
• Managing the Joiners and Leavers tracker to ensure onboarding and offboarding compliance tasks are completed, including new hire onboarding, welcome communications and certifications.
• Supporting UK Market Abuse Regulation compliance processes, including insider lists, PDMR compliance and related recordkeeping.

Compliance Support to Corporate Secretary - APAC

• Providing compliance and organisational support to the corporate secretary function for its entities in Singapore and, as the business expands, Hong Kong, helping ensure local entity administration runs smoothly across the APAC region.
• Helping triage and coordinate day-to-day queries relating to Singapore and Hong Kong entities, including from internal stakeholders and external corporate service providers, routing matters to the corporate secretary as needed.
• Supporting entity formations, dissolutions, reorganisations and restructurings for entities across the APAC region as the business grows.

Bank Account Administration

• Compiling and submitting KYC and onboarding documentation and supporting corporate documentation (e.g. constitutional documents, registers, authorised signatory lists) as part of account opening and periodic refresh processes.

Business Risk Working Group

• Administering the Business Risk Working Group, including running risk certification and assessment processes across the business.

Qualifications& experience

• Experience working in compliance, including AML/sanctions, with exposure to corporate secretarial or governance support strongly preferred
• Experience supporting a legal and compliance team essential
• Financial services and/or in-house compliance experience, ideally in a regulated or multi-jurisdictional environment
• Experience working with Refinitiv WorldCheck, Salesforce, CompySci , and/or iManage helpful