Vice President, Business Compliance

**About UOB**:
United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in Asia with a global network of more than 500 branches and offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. In Asia, we operate through our head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as branches and offices.

Our history spans more than 80 years. Over this time, we have been guided by our values — Honorable, Enterprising, United and Committed. This means we always strive to do what is right, build for the future, work as one team and pursue long-term success. It is how we work, consistently, be it towards the company, our colleagues or our customers.

**About the Department**:
The **Retail **function provides Personal and Business Banking customers with financial solutions tailored to their needs. We help them manage their money wisely and meet their financial goals through an extensive range of products and services. These include deposit, insurance, secured and unsecured loans, investment and wealth advisory services.

**Personal Financial Services**

We design and provide products and services that empower our customers to enjoy greater banking convenience while they extract more value from their money. In particular, we are focused on promoting and developing healthy saving and investment practices across generations.

**Responsibilities**:

- Conduct comprehensive post-STR reviews and holistic risk assessment on customers’ relationships and their related parties, including but not limited to customers’ KYC profiles and transactional patterns
- Make recommendations on account strategy and liaise with various stakeholders for follow-up actions to ensure satisfactory case resolutions
- Identify key risk areas and work with relationship managers to ensure suspicious activities are adequately addressed with supporting documentation and institute effective risk mitigating measures
- Provide guidance to Business Units to ensure consistent interpretation and implementation of AML/CFT standards in the review of customer relationships
- Undertake investigations into suspected ML/TF activities
- Review and manage escalations to Group Compliance, Senior Management and Group AML Committee, when required
- Manage full suite of customer reviews to ensure timeliness in case closures
- Provide advisory to Business Units for customer on-boarding and retention of customer relationships
- Keep abreast and assess impact of evolving AML/CFT requirements and typologies and assist Business Units to develop procedures, processes and internal controls in order to manage risks and strengthen the first line of defence
- Support Business Units in ensuring adherence to Group AML/CFT and Sanctions policies, guidelines and directives Perform UAT on new/enhanced features and suggest improvements for the relevant AML systems or processes
- Conduct Compliance Training to raise staff awareness on AML/CFT c

**Job Requirements**:

- Degree in Banking, Business or Finance related fields
- Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience, preferably in AML/CFT compliance function within a financial institution
- Strong working knowledge/understanding of AML/CFT regulations and standards, KYC due diligence on individuals, local and cross-border ML/TF typologies, risk mitigation controls and compliance best practices
- Proficiency in research and dealing with large volume of financial/transaction data
- Possess good analytical and problem-solving skills with an eye for details
- Team player with strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Professional AML-related qualifications such as ACAMS certification is preferred

**Be a part of UOB Family**: