Apac Financial Crime Regional Coordinator

About Northern Trust:
Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world’s most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

What you will do

Financial Crime Compliance forms part of Northern Trust’s Risk Management function and is entrusted with ensuring identification, risk assessment and monitoring of all our regulatory obligations in the locations we operate. In this role, the APAC Regional Coordinator will be responsible for the development, execution and coordination of the Global FCC Programme and support harmonisation of activity across EMEA & APAC teams. This role will build relationships and work closely with partners in all 3 lines of defence.

This role will report to the International Head of International Anti-Financial Crime Unit and will work closely with the International Head of FCC Risk & Governance, the International Head of ABC, Ethics & Fraud, Northern Trust MLROs, shared services teams in Manila, and other International / Global partners as required.

As part of the financial crime compliance team, this role is in the second line of defence and will support the embedding of the Northern Trust FCC programme and framework. FCC is responsible for ongoing oversight and reporting regarding regulatory obligations to senior compliance and business management.

DUTIES:

- Ensure that the Global framework is deployed consistently and efficiently across all APAC legal entities; working with EMEA to ensure alignment and develop efficiencies;
- Represent FCC at APAC and regional committees and project groups;
- Co-ordinate stakeholder feedback on FCC related policy and programme reviews;
- Oversight of Transaction Monitoring and Sanctions activities
- Maintain and develop local and regional assurance framework;
- Define FCC training needs in APAC and develop training materials. Determine appropriate training delivery methods and co-ordinate training delivery in conjunction with APAC MLROs
- Work in partnership with the wider Compliance, Financial Crime Compliance, Risk and Controls teams
- Provide support for audit/compliance reviews and regulatory examinations;
- Manage Compliance testing, internal audit and external audit interactions.
- Undertake projects and reviews as directed by the International Head of FCC.

Your Knowledge/Skills
- Fluent in English and ability to communicate in a clear, concise and effective manner (verbal and written)
- Strong knowledge of APAC financial crime compliance laws and regulations.
- Experience in dealing with senior leaders and ability to influence the 1st line of defence to implement change and minimise the risk profile of APAC legal entities.
- Experience in regulator engagements and supporting regulatory on-site visits
- Experience conducting gap assessments of new laws and regulations
- Experience in defining a risk based approach and implementing harmonized controls and processes.
- Preference for strong knowledge of Custody, Payments, Asset Servicing, FX, Fund Administration, and /or Securities Lending businesses as well as corporate governance such as outsourcing, data privacy and bank secrecy requirements.
- Ability to collaborate and maintain positive partnerships with business partners while at the same time remaining objective, with an ability to make an independent assessment of the risk environment and business challenges, and work toward practical risk mitigation actions
- Proven track record in making risk informed judgements, based on sometimes limited and/or ambiguous information, and leading facilitation of issue resolution
- ACAMS certification preferred
- Financial crime compliance experience in an international bank preferred
- Strong organisational skills, a collaborative approach to work, with strong interpersonal skills
- Ability to communicate with stakeholders to ensure timely and efficient management of key deliverables
- Ability to take initiative and work unsupervised in a proactive manner
- 10+ years industry experience

Working with Us:
As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

Reasonable accommodation


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