Senior Risk Advisor

**Key Responsibilities**
- Works with in-market teams to manage key relationships through providing Financial Crimes expertise and resources to help create competitive advantage for customers and partners.
- Educates and provides guidance to deal teams and colleagues as it pertains to local and global best practices pertaining to the changing landscape of Financial Crimes.
- Leverages in-depth knowledge of EDC products and internal network to build a risk-aware culture and improve process efficiencies/effectiveness.
- Independently leads complex financial crimes risk analysis for business transactions and relationships, presents findings and recommendations to business teams and management committees.
- Reviews and assesses information from open and non-public sources to identify financial crimes and reputational risks associated with transaction counterparties.
- Reviews the risk management system and controls of counterparties and other mitigating factors and assesses the residual risk.
- In collaboration with Legal and/or Compliance & Ethics as appropriate, conducts in-depth due diligence and customer engagement.
- Helps business teams make informed decisions by clearly articulating potential legal, financial, compliance, or reputational impacts to EDC in complex transactions, relationships or product innovations.
- Communicates effectively with customers and other external audiences regarding EDC’s approach to managing financial crimes risks.
- Stays abreast of trends and best practices in financial crimes risk management to contribute to the team’s expertise and knowledge building initiatives.
- Pro-actively identifies process efficiencies and standards and leads process optimization and scalability initiatives.
- Advises on the implementation of EDC’s Financial Crimes program and related process and systems improvements for existing products and new product innovation.
- Completes quality control reviews of colleagues’ work, delivering clear verbal and written feedback and informal coaching or training as required.
- Communicates the Financial Crimes risk issues and mitigations effectively, both verbally and writing

**Screening Criteria**
- University Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Law, Political Science or other related field.
- Minimum 7 years’ experience in Financial Crimes compliance and/or enhanced due diligence, specifically as it relates to compliance and ethics programs, third-party/vendor screening programs or customer onboarding programs.
- Demonstrated ability to build and manage relationships with customers and stakeholders.
- Demonstrated knowledge of best practices related to the design and implementation of ABC and Sanctions Compliance Programs, including Code of Conduct, Global Sanctions and/or Anti-Corruption Policy & Procedures, risk assessments, employee training, communications, third-party due diligence, monitoring, and reporting.
- Proven experience in preparing written reports on financial crime risks associated with high-risk business relationships and/or transactions, as well as presenting recommendations to senior management on mitigation measures required to address potential legal, compliance, and reputational impacts.
- Familiarity with incident/issue management approaches in the context of high-risk business relationships and/or transactions, including but not limited to audit, remediation and/or monitoring best practices.
- Strong ability to adapt general risk management and financial crime compliance principles to unique and complex transactions and/or customer needs.
- Familiarity with Anti-Corruption/Sanctions compliance clauses (Representations, Covenants and Warranties) in contracts.
- Thorough knowledge of Anti-Corruption, Anti-Money Laundering, Terrorism Financing and Sanctions regulations
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including proven experience presenting recommendations to senior management.
- Excellent organizational skills including prioritizing and juggling competing priorities, collaborating and coordinating input from cross-functional teams, and meeting deadlines in a fast-paced work environment.
- Experience with project management, multi-tasking and interacting with multiple stakeholders.
- Ability to work in a matrix organization and wiliness to accommodate different time zones
- Ability and wiliness to travel up to a quarter of your working hours.

**Assets**
- Proficiency in local Indo-Pacific language(s).
- Professional certification such as CAMS CFE, CFF, CFCS etc.