Director, Investigation Department

**What the role is**
- At ACRA, we are always on the lookout for high performing individuals who share our aspiration of making Singapore the best place for business. The Investigation Department (ID) investigates offences under the legislations administered by ACRA. It also regulates corporate service providers and relevant corporate entities for compliance with anti-money laundering and countering financing of terrorism requirements.
You will be able to help ACRA be a respected and accounting regulator by:
I. leading the department in investigating the non-compliance of businesses registered with ACRA, with all offences under ACRA-administered legislation save for the areas undertaken by other specialised departments that focus on annual filings, financial reporting accounting standards and requirements;
II. driving policies and operations with regard to anti-money laundering and countering financing of terrorism requirements; and
III. regulating Registered Filing Agents and Registered Qualified Individuals..
If you have what it takes, join us, and be part of the team

**What you will be working on**
- 1. Provide recommendations, drive reviews, and develop initiatives to improve or develop new strategies to achieve ACRA’s strategic objectives.
- Review/develop anti-money laundering and countering financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) and investigation policies/legislation and to execute them.
- Assess and evaluate trends in the process of strategic reviews and conceptualize initiatives that support ACRA’s strategic outcomes.
- Propose approaches to investigations (e.g., policies, processes) for implementation (e.g. adopting risk-based approach to enforcement, issuance of composition sums, sanctions and summonses).
- Advise ACRA on its areas of accountability in the WOG effort to deal with AML/ Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information / United Nation (UN) issues and to meet Financial Action Task Force (FATF)/ Global Forum (GF) recommendations/ observations.
- Provide oversight to tracking activities to ensure appropriate penalties and composition fines are imposed.

2. Supervise the prompt and robust investigation of complaints against alleged regulatory breaches of ACRA-administered legislation
- Supervise investigation actions (including AML/CFT investigations).
- To have in place appropriate guidelines and procedures for robust investigations by investigators and to ensure that the KPIs are met.
- Provide directions to ensure the team analyses and handles cases, appeals and representations from members of the public and customers from all aspects.

3. Oversee international policy matters
- Assess and respond to mutual legal assistance requests from other countries
- Assess and respond to signing-on/ratification/accession to international instruments
- Advise ACRA on its areas of accountability in the WOG effort to deal with UN issues (unrelated to AML/CFT)
- Represent ACRA at bilateral/international meetings.

4. Engagement and/or partnership with domestic external stakeholders in the discussion on ACRA’s legal initiatives and policies, enforcement strategies
- Work with other government agencies on highly sensitive cases
- Represent ACRA at mutual evaluations by international assessors and at bilateral/international meetings to represent ACRA’s interests and positions.
- Engage other regulators within Singapore to enhance working relationships.
- Engage practitioners, government agencies, and the business community (e.g. business associations, professional bodies) to seek views on new proposals or to gather feedback and insights on existing issues of concern.

5. Oversee the selection, training, development and supervision of staff to ensure a competent and engaged team to deliver on the enforcement objectives
- Review resources (e.g., budget, manpower) to carry out the Department’s operations and projects
- Provide required training, coaching, mentoring and guidance to develop staff
- Understand staff competencies and ensure proper staffing in areas of responsibility in order to ensure effective performance

6. Supervise the registration, inspections, and enforcement actions on registered filing agents for breaching their statutory obligations under ACRA-administered legislation
- Supervise the registration of registered filing agents.
- Conduct risk assessment on registered filing agents.
- Supervise the conducting of compliance reviews and inspections and recommending the imposition of sanctions against non-compliant registered filing agents.
- Conduct AML/CFT and beneficial ownership (BO) risk assessments of legal persons.
- Supervise risk-based enforcement approach based on AML/CFT and BO risk assessments.

7. Supervise the registration and enforcement actions on Registered qualified Individual for breaching statutory obligations under ACRA-administered legislation
- Supervise the registration of Registered Qualified Individuals
- Investigate into breaches of legislation comm