Financial Crime Advisory Analyst

An excellent opportunity is available with a leading commercial banking organisation based in Abu Dhabi offering a range of products and services for a Financial Crime Advisory Analyst within Client Acceptance Advisory. This role will be based in Abu Dhabi.

Reporting to the Senior Manager in Client Acceptance Advisory you will complete due diligence on new to bank client on-boarding, monitoring existing clients to rule out money laundering/terrorist financing/sanctions risks, investigating and reporting unusual/suspicious cases to UAE Central Bank (CBUAE), in order to comply with regulatory requirements and mitigate risk for the bank.

Key Responsibilities:

• To act as a subject matter expert, providing guidance on what actions to take when dealing with high risk accounts and transactions
• To discuss and review client on-boarding, monitoring and alerts
• To discuss systems, workflow management and payment operations
• To liaise with the financial crimes unit on Central Bank referred cases

The Financial Crime Advisory Anayst will possess strong experience in banking in financial crime compliance, branch or operations department. You will ideally hold a Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant subject, an understanding of account opening and customer documentation, knowledge of customer transactions and behaviours and exposure to banking transactions. You will possess an understanding of local/International and Central Bank rules and regulatory requirements and an understanding of banking systems, reports and workflows. You will ideally hold a relevant certification such as CAMS or ACAMS.

This is an excellent opportunity in the UAE. Please apply now of for further information contact Kayte Short at Robert Walters at Kayte.short@robertwalters.com