Sanctions Screening Analyst

Banking Circle; Singapore; On-site; SGD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Banking Circle seeks a Sanctions Screening Analyst to join their expanding Singapore team. This role involves managing sanctions alert reviews, enhancing processes, and collaborating with the Data Science team. Ideal candidates are analytical, proactive, and thrive in dynamic environments.

Qualifications

• Smart, ambitious, and energetic individuals.
• Analytical mindset with independent work capabilities.
• Experience in fast-paced environments, preferred.

Responsibilities

• Investigating potential matches and reviewing sanctions alerts.
• Monitoring regulatory developments and suggesting enhancements.
• Ensuring payment processing within established SLAs.

Skills

Analytical skills

Collaboration

Independent work

Adaptability

Education

University degree

Job description

Do you want to work at the heart of a growing, next generation banking firm with global ambitions, protecting it and its customers against sanctions risk? Then we might have the role for you!

Banking Circle is a fintech, bank, and fun all in one. We are on a journey to become payment pioneers. Every day up to 2 million payments run through our platform. We work closely with central banks and clients worldwide to constantly improve our payment flows. Banking Circle was founded less than 10 years ago, and today we are a fully licensed bank with 700 colleagues in 8 countries. We are still growing rapidly, and we invite you to join us and experience a fun and international workplace, where people prefer to come to the office rather than work from home.

Your team welcomes you with open arms
As our new Sanctions Screening Analyst in the Sanctions team in Singapore you’ll experience an open and knowledge driven culture, where everyone can thrive, connect with colleagues, learn and grow. Here you will be empowered to make an impact every day.

In this role you will get the chance to work on exciting opportunities in our first line of defense Sanctions function and are looking for people to join our team conducting Level 1 & 2 Payment Sanctions Screening alert reviews. In this role, you will be responsible for investigating and handling sanctions alerts, requesting further payment information internally and externally and/or escalating potential true matches for further investigation or guidance.

Exciting work is waiting for you

• Investigating potential matches and actioning as appropriate
• Managing caseload to ensure payments are processed within SLAs
• Identifying and recommending process and procedural enhancements
• Working with our Data Science teams to continuously improve our systems
• Monitoring regulatory developments and industry best practices
• Maintaining procedures and working instructions to ensure adequacy

Things we’ll look for on your resume
We are looking to hire smart, ambitious and energetic individuals into our rapidly growing Singapore team. This may be your first role after university, or you may be looking for your next role having built some initial experience. Either way, if you are excited by the opportunity of joining Banking Circle as a Sanctions Screening Analyst then please apply.

As a person you are analytical, not afraid to work independently with personal accountability, and you thrive in a fast-paced environment. You are also a great team player who can work collaboratively with others across locations and departments.

Banking Circle is an international company. Our internal workforce consists of over 50 nationalities, and our clients and partners are located all over the globe. Therefore, our company language is English.

Go ahead and take the first step
We look forward to hearing from you. We review applications and interview candidates continuously. Please note that we don’t accept or consider CVs received through email or direct messages.

If you have questions, please reach out to Ellen Aastrup Lentz, Global Recruitment Partner on [e-mail]. No recruitment agencies, please.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, age, religion, sexual orientation, national origin or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local laws, regulations and ordinances. To learn more about Banking Circle, visit is at www.bankingcircle.com.

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Lokation: Singapore (SG)