Vice President, Financial Crime Compliance Advisory

6 days ago

Manama, Bahrain Emprego BH Full time

**Department**:Group Financial Crime Compliance

**Reports To**: Group Head of Financial Crime Compliance (FCC)

**Job Purpose**:

- Establish and lead the GFCC Policy and Advisory function from a people, process and systems perspective.
- Develop and ensure the implementation of a GFCC Policy and Standards structure and hierarchy to ensure it is proportionate to the Bank ABC Group regulatory FCC risk.
- Provide expert advice to Bank ABC Units on FCC related regulations, including the interpretation of regulatory requirements.
- Manage the process of consolidating the annual MLRO report for Bank ABC Group, utilising the inputs gained from Group Compliance and the GFCC risk assessment questionnaires and subsequent in-country action plans developed.

**Dimensions of role (i.e. budgets managed, number of staff)**:

- Financial (Revenue, Expenses, Budgets etc.)_

None
- Non-Financial (size of team, geographical coverage, time horizon of main decisions, etc.)_
- None, this role would in future have a headcount of 2 reporting to it.

**Principal Responsibilities, Accountabilities and Deliverables of Role**:

- Policy and Standards_
- Establish and lead the GFCC Policy and Advisory function at Group level from a people, process and systems perspective.
- Develop and ensure the implementation of a GFCC Policy and Standards structure and hierarchy to ensure it is proportionate to the Bank ABC Group regulatory FCC risk.
- Perform periodic reviews of the GFCC Policies and Standards to ensure they are kept up to date with legislative developments and requirements; and incorporate international best practice issued by recognised standards generating bodies e.g. FATF, Basel, Wolfsberg.
- Monitor regulatory horizons and ensure that the Policy and Advisory team perform a detailed gap analysis where legislative change is the driver for policy updates or enhancements, and the results considered as part of the drafting process.
- Manage the engagement process with Bank ABC Units in order to ensure that all changes to Group FCC Policies and Standards are socialised with affected stakeholders and communicated effectively.
- Ensure that GFCC Policies and Standards are embedded in all Bank ABC Units by providing SME input and support in the development of controls questions for the CSA process; and validating the feedback received from Bank ABC Units.
- Advice_
- Provide expert advice to Bank ABC Units on FCC related regulations, including the interpretation of regulatory requirements.
- Responsible for the development of FCC Key Obligation Register where Regulatory requirements and FCC risks are analysed and standards are determined across all Bank ABC Units.
- Training_
- Develop and maintain the GFCC training curriculum for Bank ABC.
- Develop and maintain the body of knowledge for GFCC general awareness training for the Bank ABC Group and perform an oversight role to ensure that specialised training is provided to relevant stakeholders (e.g. intermediaries and suppliers) as deemed to be appropriate.
- Design and deliver face to face training and ongoing ad hoc training to Compliance team and other relevant stakeholders as necessary.
- Liaise with the Group Compliance and ensure that induction and ongoing refresher training content is kept up to date and in line with new regulations and global best practices.
- Oversight and Reporting_
- Manage the process of consolidating the annual MLRO report for Bank ABC Group, utilising the inputs gained from Group Compliance and the GFCC risk assessment questionnaires and subsequent in-country action plans developed.
- Manage the end-to-end Agreed Upon Procedure (AUP), including the consolidation of risks identified during the AUP process and ensure all issues captured onto the GRC Tool and tracked to resolution.

**Risk, Compliance & Business Continuity**:

- At all times, act with due care, skill and diligence to ensure compliance with Bank ABC’s risk culture, policies and procedures, Code of Conduct and Values.
- Escalate risk and compliance issues in a timely manner to your line manager and ensure that all mandatory training is completed to schedule.
- Participate in exercises to rehearse the banks response to an emergency (i.e. evacuation exercises and Business Continuity tests)

**Main Contacts**:

- Outside the Bank: Regulators and Counterparties on FCC legislative issues_
- Within the Bank: Compliance, Business and Functional Unit heads and staff_
- _Contact Group_
- _Internal / External_
- _Purpose_
- _Frequency_

**_Central Bank of Bahrain_**
- _External_
- _Engage on legislative and regulatory matters_
- _Ad Hoc_

**_Wholesale Banking and Retail Banking_**
- _Internal_
- _Provide legislative and regulatory advise_
- _Regularly_

**_Group Compliance_**
- _Internal_
- _Relationship development and management of regulatory risks with Group Compliance Heads and staff._
- _Daily_

**Job Requirements**:
**Knowledge**:

- Deep knowledge of FCC legislative and regulatory frameworks.

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