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.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide AML and CTF advice to TA business

• Reviewing first line procedures against policy and regulatory requirements and providing input in the development of new and existing policy, procedures and other levels of framework

• Act as a subject matter expert representing FCC in new and existing project initiatives

• Management and deployment of an adequate assurance and testing program. Where issues are identified, appropriate mitigating actions are raised, agreed and tracked to completion

• Production and issuing of formal reports on the output of monitoring and testing to senior management

• Undertake disposition of potential raised sanction, PEP & AM alerts and escalate to the MLRO and relevant teams when appropriate

• Attendance of client meetings to provide overview of the undertakings of TA ARO and FCC

• Maintain a strong collaborative working relationship with APAC Transfer Agency

• Provide management information periodically to support management oversight and current MI programs

• Assist the MLRO's and provision of AML Compliance support as needed within the team

The successful candidate will benefit from having/being:

• Possess in-depth knowledge of financial crimes

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

• Ideally possess a basic understanding of fund business, as well as transfer agency, and fund manager's AML obligations

• Ideally possess experience in quality assurance monitoring, testing and thematic reviews    

• Analyzing data to identify opportunities for monitoring/testing

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

• Ability to operate independently

• Self-Starter

• Able to work to deadlines

• Excellent attention to detail

• Excellent communication and written skills

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

• Proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint and other Microsoft products

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

Reasonable accommodation

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We hope you're excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

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

About Our Manila Office

The Northern Trust Manila office celebrated a decade of excellence in 2024. Through agility, resiliency, innovation, and excellence, they have evolved into a dynamic hub with diverse capabilities and a thriving workforce of over 1,200 — driving meaningful impact and sustainable growth. Learn more.