Sr Analyst, Compliance Fin Crime

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Major Duties:

• Assist with maintaining existing Hong Kong related procedures for countering financial crime, including money laundering, sanctions, politically exposed persons and anti-bribery and corruption

• Provide AML advisory guidance to business partners in various business lines, including Asset Servicing, Asset Management and Wealth Management

• Assist with monitoring, undertaking impact assessment and implementing financial crime regulatory changes in Hong Kong

• Alongside MLRO, partner with management and business partners to implement financial crime compliance programs, including training on such programs

• Embed the Northern Trust framework for identifying and documenting all local financial crime compliance obligations through rules mapping, risk assessments, monitoring, and regulatory change management processes

• Assist MLRO to conduct Financial Crime Compliance Enterprise Wide Risk assessments annually or as otherwise required for HK

• Review on suspicious transaction monitoring conducted by a centralized team

• Assist MLRO in preparing AML reporting, including for internal committees and boards

• Work in partnership with the wider Compliance, Financial Crime Compliance, Risk and Controls teams

• Support AML/KYC matters in relation to the onboarding/periodic review of Hong Kong contracted & serviced clients

  • Assist HK MLRO to oversee China branch's AML activities by reviewing and providing input into policies, the Enterprise Wide Risk Assessment, financial crime rules mapping, gap assessments etc.
  • Assist the China MLRO to provide training to China partners.

Knowledge/Skills:

• Possess in-depth knowledge of financial crimes

• Experience of working with or in a Financial Crime Compliance team

• Knowledge of custody, asset servicing, fund administration, securities lending, asset management and wealth management businesses would be preferred

• Analysing data to identify opportunities for monitoring/testing

• Ability to identify risks in a process through assurance and monitoring programs

• Ability to use initiative and work unsupervised in a proactive manner

• Ability to collaborate and maintain positive partnerships with business partners while at the same time remaining objective, with an ability to make an independent assessment of the risk environment and business challenges

• Able to work to deadlines

• Excellent attention to detail

• Strong organisational skills, a collaborative approach to work, with strong interpersonal skills

• Able to work with a cross section of teams across multiple locations

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

We'd love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world's most admired and sustainable companies Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater

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Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.

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