VP, Anti-Financial Crimes - Investigation and Intelligence - United Overseas...

United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB); Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading bank in Asia is seeking a professional to enhance transaction monitoring processes. The role requires expertise in Anti-Financial Crime, strong project management skills, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure compliance and efficiency. The ideal candidate will have a bachelor's degree and significant experience in financial crime compliance. This position is based in Singapore.

Qualifications

• 5 to 10 years of experience in an Anti-Financial Crime role or related fields.
• Demonstrated success in leading transformation projects in financial institutions.
• Proficiency in emerging technologies such as data analytics and automation.

Responsibilities

• Manage AML initiatives to enhance surveillance capabilities.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align on transformation objectives.
• Understand and document business requirements for system design.
• Provide regular updates on project progress to senior leadership.
• Lead user acceptance testing for implemented initiatives.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Data analytics

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance, business or related field

Job description

About UOB

United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in Asia with a global network of more than 500 branches and offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. In Asia, we operate through our head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as branches and offices. Our history spans more than 80 years. Over this time, we have been guided by our values - Honorable, Enterprising, United and Committed. This means we always strive to do what is right, build for the future, work as one team and pursue long-term success. It is how we work, consistently, be it towards the company, our colleagues or our customers.

Job Description

Reporting to the Head of the Operations Excellence Team, the successful candidate will be part of a team to enhance and optimize the transaction monitoring processes, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements while driving efficiency and effectiveness. This role requires a good understanding of financial crime compliance, strong project management experience and ability to work with cross-functional stakeholders, to enable successful delivery of expected outcome.

Key responsibilities include:

• Management of various AML initiatives to uplift the Bank's existing surveillance capabilities, to ensure successful and timely project deliverables.
• Collaborate with various stakeholders to align the transformation objectives, and business priorities.
• Understand and document business requirements and ensure that requirements are factored into system/process design to be delivered.
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks related to delivery of transformation initiatives.
• Provide regular updates to senior leadership on project progress, challenges and outcomes.
• Lead the design and perform user acceptance testing to ensure that implemented initiative is performing as per defined requirements.
• Initiate update to existing procedure to incorporate changes to process due to implemented changes.
• Conduct training to I&I colleagues on process updates/changes.
• Monitor effectiveness of implemented changes and follow up on remediation of any identified gaps subsequent to implementation.
• Leveraging on subject matter expertise in AML, to contribute/drive deliberation and discussion at the respective financial crime enhancement workstreams.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in finance, business or any related field
• 5 to 10 years of experience in an Anti-Financial Crime role or in law enforcement, forensic accountancy, compliance, audit, or similar fields where investigative skills and approaches are employed
• Demonstrated success in leading transformation projects within financial institution or consulting environment.
• Excellent project management skills with a track record of delivering complex projects on time and within budget.
• Strong leadership, stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Proficiency knowledge in emerging technologies such as data analytics, machine learning and automation.

Additional Requirements

Be a Part of the UOB Family

UOB is an equal opportunity employer. UOB does not discriminate on the basis of a candidate's age, race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or other non-merit factors. All employment decisions at UOB are based on business needs, job requirements and qualifications. If you require any assistance or accommodations to be made for the recruitment process, please inform us when you submit your online application.

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