Financial Crime Specialist
Financial Crime Specialist
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Job Description
Visa is looking for a Financial Crime Analyst based in Singapore to be part of Currencyclouds Asia Pacific (APAC) New Business Onboarding team. Currencycloud is part of Visa Group entities and covers Visas regulated payment business within Money Movement Solutions (MMS) in APAC. Currencycloud is also consolidated under Visa Direct which streamlines all of Visas cross border payments under one unified branding. The Currencycloud APAC New Business Onboarding team is an essential partner to the MMS business. The team provides solutions-oriented advices to ensure timely client onboarding address stakeholder queries promptly complete tasks within Service Level Agreements (SLA) and perform all duties to a high standard.
What a Financial Crime Analyst does at Visa:
This role based in Singapore supports the Currencycloud APAC New Business Onboarding Manager with new client onboarding. It reports to the APAC New Business Onboarding Manager and is part of Visas expansion in the region.
The core responsibilities for this role are as follows:
Responsible for new business onboarding applications for Financial Institutions Payment Institutions and Corporates in a myriad of industries and jurisdictions
Carrying out know-your-customer (KYC) and Know-your-business (KYB) checks.
Reviewing clients regulatory cover
Performing Risk Assessment on new clients
Assessing the effectiveness of each clients AML framework
Leading AML calls with clients including visual walkthroughs of their processes and systems
Responsible for undertaking enhanced due diligence on customers that pose greater risks including investigating the legitimacy of the funds used in the business relationship
Proactively escalating cases to senior members of the team
Complete Compliance administration (such as keeping client records up to date).
Work cross-departmentally to proactively identify and resolve any queries.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.
Qualifications :
Basic Qualifications
- To apply for this role we are looking for someone who has bachelors degree or higher education qualification and at least 3 years of working experience within AML/CFT compliance functions in the financial / payments industry. Professional AML accreditation preferred.
Preferred Qualifications
- Understanding of Singapores Payment Services Act and all relevant subsidiary legislation especially PSN01 on Prevention of Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Specified Payment Services. Knowledge of other payments regulations and AML typologies across APAC will be advantageous but not necessary.
- Possesses a comprehensive understanding of key Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Risk frameworks
- Excellent communication skills in English and Mandarin (both written and verbal) and a strong command of Mandarin providing constructive and clear feedback to queries.
- Fast thinker and quick learner with the ability to work effectively under pressure in a rapidly changing environment.
- Excellent team working skills capable of managing own workload and has tenacious attention to details.
- Ability to priorities work by taking the impact and scale of the work into consideration as well as manage time effectively to meet deadlines.
- Able to analyse information to formulate questions and recommendations
Additional Information :
Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
