Client Due Diligence Specialist - SOW Uplift (10 Month Contract) - Bukit Merah
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At Bank of Singapore, we are constantly on the lookout for exceptional individuals to join our team. We promote a culture of openness, teamwork and fairness. Most importantly, we invest in our people through our programmes that develop them on both professional and personal levels.Besides attractive remuneration packages, we offer non-financial benefits and opportunities to develop your potential within OCBC Group’s global network of subsidiaries and offices. If you have passion, drive and the will to succeed, rise to the challenge today!
This position within the Client Onboarding Life Cycle Management is responsible for supporting our Front Office in a multi-year program to uplift the standards of the CDD write-up and documentation for our existing clients. The key responsibility of the SoW Team is to support the front office to review the client’s source of wealth to ensure corroboration and plausibility of the client’s original source of funds and wealth growth.
The successful candidate is expected to be knowledgeable in CDD/AML principles to be able to analyse and identify gaps and risks in the existing KYC and Source of Wealth (SoW) information, and to be able to work well within a team while taking initiative and ownership over his/her own area of work.
Job Description:
- Understanding of Source of Wealth/ Funds Corroboration.
- Take ownership in ensure a comprehensive, prompt, and high-quality review of client source of wealth and provide guidance to the front office and team colleagues on issues, addressing deficiencies in KYC information and documentation.
- Accurately identify gaps (if any) in client's source of wealth and assess the plausibility in line with MAS and the Bank’s expectations.
- Conduct independent and meticulous reviews, incorporating plausibility checks and validation of Clients' Source of Wealth and source of funds.
- Perform detailed calculations to support the client's source of wealth journey, i.e accumulation of wealth over time
- Liaise with relationship managers for deficiencies of KYC information and obtain corroboration documentation.
- Assist relationship managers to succinctly translate the SoW information into a professional and quality write up.
- Report to the SoW remediation team lead for completion progress on a regular basis and escalate issues to Compliance where required.
- Collaborate with auditors and relevant stakeholders on audit and assurance-related matters.
- Coordination and collation of CDD related MIS.
- At least 2-3 years of experience in AML and Source of Wealth (SoW) experience for Client Onboarding and Periodic Reviews in a private banking environment.
- Knowledgeable and sensitive to the risks involved AML risks of private banking clients.
- Strong analytical writing skills and strong communication skills, including the ability to deal with potentially contentious issues effectively.
- Good written and proficient oral communication skills in both English is a must.
- Soft skills: Investigative mindset, innate professional scepticism, and ability to carry out plausibility testing.
- Familiar with excel and preparation of statistics for reporting.
- Diploma/ Degree holder
- ACAMs or ICA would be preferred