*responsibilities*:
- enhance and implement of best -in-class aml compliance policies and practices.
- provide expert advice on aml compliance policies to the aml/financial crime support teams and the business.
- perform aml compliance quality and testing, evaluate process deficiencies, analyze control measures, enhance reporting capabilities and recommend corrective actions while satisfying regulatory and audit commitments.
further, assess and identify emerging risks and recommend / drive program enhancements
- identify and escalate unusual activity or cases that fail to meet citi and line of business guidelines to appropriate management or business partners.
advise management on next steps.
- create, develop and deliver relevant training to business and functional partners.
- additional duties as assigned.
- has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.
- can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy.
- acts as sme to senior stakeholders and /or other team members.
*qualifications*:
- 5-8 years relevant experience
- aml certification
- consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
- self-motivated and detail oriented
- advanced analytical skills knowledge of the laws applicable to money laundering, including the bank secrecy act, the usa patriot act, us treasury aml guidelines, ofac requirements, and suspicious activity reporting requirements
- *education*:
- bachelor's/university degree or equivalent experience
*rationale*:
the senior compliance analyst - aml monitor will serve as subject matter expert (sme) in anti money laundering (aml) monitoring risk management (mrm) with activities across multiple regional, global projects and bau processes.
his/her area of expertise will reside mainly in understand, manage and explain aml red flags, typologies, features and statistical models across business lines, products and legal vehicles, according to aml requirements of local regulators (cnbv, shcp, banxico) or global (occ, frb) regulators.
activities and functions are mainly but not restricted to analytics, strategy and intelligence, to ensure mitigation of any risk for the franchise or for the institution, aligned to local and global standards, policies, procedures or guidelines, with high responsibility to meet challenging deadlines.
he/she will be in close, daily contact with several key aml teams such as financial investigation unit (fiu), technology, data intelligence (di), compliance risk management (crm), know your customer (kyc), project management office (pmo), compliance assurance (ca), internal audit (ia), scenario development and enhancement (sde), independent validation (iv), among others.
*specific responsabilities include*:
- supervise aml mrm red flags and features projects, performing tasks related to verify their correct implementation and functioning in order to accomplish requests of global and local regulators.
- follow up, understand, explain and improve key performance, productivity indicators of red flags and features.
- review documentation of standards, strategies, policies and processes regarding red flags and features and regarding aml topics, to provide feedback if enhancements are necessary and to confirm they are aligned to the regional regulatory requirements.
- elaborate, keep, modify and present for approval in global forums, documentation related to red flags and features.
explain and defend this documentation before high profile, professional inquisitors such as auditors or regulators.
- work closely with fiu, technology, di, crm, pmo, legal and other stakeholders to ensure proper delivery of regulator-related projects and non-regulator-related projects, always with a risk based approach.
- be an active member of the regional aml teams.
- work closely with business and regional aml teams to understand their needs and be able to communicate them to senior management and to the global aml teams to obtain approvals.
- work closely with technology groups to implement all approvals obtained.
- proactively detect, mitigate and escalate any matter that requires attention or immediate attention (mra, mria) that could put the franchise under potential reputational and/or legal risk.
- work on multiple tasks at the same time, being able to distinguish those of higher priority.
- ensure that reporting, oversight and feedback mechanisms operate efficiently within mrm and support a "no surprise" culture, with early detection of issues.
*qualifications*:
- bachelor's degree in *exact* *sciences, engineering, or economy.
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- 3 years of experience in risk management, anti money laundering, compliance, tax evasion, financial fraud prevention or similar area is preferable.
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intermediate* level of english (written and spoken).
certified is a plus.
- proficient in microsoft office suite (mos): word, excel, powerpoint and outlook.
- 3 years programming code in sql.
additionally, any of these