Client Due Diligence Specialist, Front Office

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- Conduct periodic reviews of KYC and CDD information of existing end clients and financial intermediaries.
- Perform independent and thorough review, including plausibility checks as well as corroboration of existing clients' source of wealth and source of funds and address gaps where any are identified.
- Advise front office and other colleagues within the team on client ongoing monitoring and review matters including deficiencies in KYC information and corroboration documents.
- Collaborate with key stakeholders involved in the process, viz, Relationship Managers, Team Heads, Market heads, Compliance and other colleagues within the bank to ensure source of wealth gaps/red flags uncovered during periodic reviews are properly addressed and closed out.
- Conduct reviews of existing clients to ensure their biodata remains updated
- Handle the alerts arising from the periodic screening of the bank's customer database
- Collaborate with key stakeholders and advise front office to address suspicious activity alerts/investigations.
- Assist to response to queries, clarifications resulting from internal, external, statutory or regulatory audit
- Train team members as well as colleagues from front office on matters pertaining to KYC AML.
- Identify gaps and implement controls including system and process enhancement that are fit for purpose and to address current and future requirements in a rapidly changing regulatory environment and an evolving AML landscape, in line with industry best practices.

**General**
- Support Global Front Line Risk and Control on the matters that are assigned from time to time in line with overall priorities of the bank.
- Collaborate with other colleagues within the bank to drive and assists remediation and other projects as and when required.
- Prepare Management information reports based on agreed requirements.
- Organize meetings with Front Office and focus group training to align front office practices with current procedures.

**Qualifications**
- Minimum 4 years of experience in AML/KYC under the client review function in a private banking environment.
- Knowledgeable and sensitive to the risks (PEP, Sanctions, reputational risks) and suspicious activities typical of private banking clients.
- Knowledge of regulations including MAS, HKMA and other intergovernmental / non-governmental organization such as FATF / Wolfsberg.
- University degree in Accountancy, Finance, Business Administration or equivalent, or higher education.
- Preferred skills
- Strong understanding of AML/CFT framework and the regulatory environment and its applicability to Private Banking clients in the areas of onboarding, on-going client reviews and transaction monitoring.
- Familiar with MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint and other office automation tools.