Job Description
Primary Location: Kazakhstan,Almaty,Almaty
Education: Bachelor's Degree
Job Function: Compliance and Control
Schedule: Full-time
Shift: Day Job
Employee Status: Regular
Travel Time: No
Job ID: 17043623
Description
Goals and objectives:
The management for the described position put forward the following goals and objectives:
The main task of the senior AML specialist is the implementation of effective procedures for AML / FT, which are fully compliant with the policies and standards of regulators (the United States and Kazakhstan) as well as internal policies and procedures of City and reporting to the Financial Monitoring Committee MF RK of the threshold and suspicious transactions, in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of AML / FT as a checker;
Senior AML specialist is involved in the development of training for all employees of Citibank with all the changes in the legislation of Kazakhstan on AML / FT;
AML specialist provides reporting to the head of department.
Key Responsibilities:
To ensure compliance with global policy, sectoral and local policies and procedures to combat money laundering, as well as other requirements of Management Compliance Control;
To participate in periodic reviews (at least 1 time per quarter) in compliance with the bank legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan regulating the issues of providing bank services and operations in the financial market, as well as the laws of foreign countries, have an impact on the bank's activities in order to determine the extent of the bank's exposure to compliance risks. Develop AML compliance plan and scope of reviews;
To advise on the establishment of effective programs AML / FT, including training programs for employees in the AML / FT;
To advise and assist in resolving the issue of recognition of suspicion activity in accordance with the global policy AML / FT and legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of AML / FT;
To understand the structure and functionality of the Global Division of combating money laundering and terrorist financing, as well as its interaction with businesses, regions, individual countries, global and regional compliance unit;
To consider and implement an investigation of suspicious transactions and place the related documents in an appropriate system;
To supervise and ensure the timely consideration of the reports of AML / FT in certain areas and thresholds (collection of cash, cards, balances of individual accounts), to carry out their analysis on money laundering, and to ensure the safety documentation in proper form;
To submit reports to the Financial Monitoring Committee MF RK on the threshold and suspicious transactions, in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of AML / FT;
Together with the Deputy Head of Department to review and provide answers to request from the Financial Monitoring Committee MF RK and other authorized bodies;
To provide update and implement policies for reconciling clients against negative lists (lists of countries and territories for which the applicable sanctions and restrictions are applied (hereinafter - the list), and its compliance with the requirements of both the City and local requirements for creating a list (including maintenance such lists);
To attend on an annual basis at least one training on AML / FT issues, either internal or external.
Qualifications
Knowledge/Experience/Qualifications:
Requirements for qualification:
Higher education degree
At least 2 years experience in compliance or 4 years in banking or financial industry
Knowledge:
legislative and other normative legal acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan and international legislation governing the activities of banks;
basis of accounting and banking;
internal and corporate policies and procedures;
methods of processing information using modern technical facilities and communication, computer;
internal code of conduct
rules and regulations of protection of labor
Skills & Competencies:
Basic knowledge of IT and computers
Organizational skills,
Planning, resilience, motivation, teamwork, verbal communication skills