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AML Execution Senior Analyst at Citi

AML Execution Senior Analyst at Citi

Posted 24 April by eFinancialCareers
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Overview of Citi:
Citi is a world-leading global bank. We have approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide. We provide consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. We enable clients to achieve their strategic financial objectives by providing them with cutting-edge ideas, best-in-class products and solutions, and unparalleled access to capital and liquidity.

Citi Belfast is one of the largest employers in Northern Ireland with a diverse and talented team of over 3000 people from over 40 different nationalities across our four Belfast offices.

We are the only global investment bank operating in Northern Ireland. Every day, our local experts interact with global teams in over 100 countries developing and supporting next-generation technology solutions for the enterprise and delivering critical services to the bank and its customers, to make sure we are a stronger and safer organization for our clients.

You will have a truly global reach, which will provide you with new experiences and development opportunities right here in Belfast's iconic Titanic Quarter.

The Role:
The Quality Assurance team acts as a trusted body with a commitment to quality and process improvements, having an ultimate objective to identify areas of improvement and opportunities in the method in which the investigative analysts review and assess anomalous behaviors. The team's responsibilities include identifying and reporting potential issues, submitting recommendations on a variety of developmental opportunities and/or best practices.

The successful candidate will be responsible for reviewing anomalous activity alerts and cases as a control to ensure accuracy, completeness and compliance with regulatory, internal and external audit requirements as well as policy and procedural requirements. You will be responsible for maintaining interactions with the Global QA Team to ensure the execution of the QA program in a consistent manner.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Perform Quality reviews of the investigation cases including cases resulting in STR, to ensure they meet regulatory requirements, emphasizing on the accuracy of the information contained in the STR.
  • Verify that all required post investigation actions were initiated by the Investigation Analyst.
  • Able to perform independent research and appropriate collection and analysis of documents to assist in identifying unusual transaction patterns.
  • Prepare QA reviewer reports with observations summary.
  • Be an ambassador of best practices and facilitator of knowledge of money laundering processes.
  • Ensure that the Quality Assurance process is executed in adherence with global standard policies and procedures, using global standard tools.
  • Keep regular interactions with global QA Team in order to exchange the standards on QA Program and keep consistency in QA execution.
  • Adhere to global standard policies and procedures.
  • Operate within agreed business SLAs and confidentiality standards.
Skills and Experience:
  • Extensive experience in conducting AML investigations, including undertaking customer transaction reviews and open source research, with the aim of identifying potentially suspicious activity.
  • Experience in conducting Know Your Customer (KYC) related tasks, particularly on high risk customers.
  • Good knowledge of English and high standard of written and oral communication skills.
  • Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
  • Demonstrated initiative and creativity in problem solving.
  • Organized, disciplined and highly responsible.
  • Good presentation skills and ability to build strong arguments to justify decisions.
  • Demonstrated ability to work independently, interact effectively, with different levels of management and to operate with excellent corporate work ethics (timely, honest, respectful and considerate to co-workers).
  • Good understanding of Windows applications (Word, Excel, etc.) and Internet & commercial database searches.
  • Have a genuine interest in the news and current affairs with the ability of cross referencing them during investigations.
  • Have a desire to thoroughly and accurately research, extract, compile and connect information from various sources.
Qualifications:
  • Preferably a Graduate Degree from a recognized university (Accountancy, Banking, Business, Economics or Law) or relevant professional qualification in financial services or audit.
What We Offer:
We work hard to have a positive financial and social impact on the communities we serve. In turn, we put our employees first and provide the best-in-class benefits they need to be well, live well and save well.

We'll provide you with the resources to meet your unique needs, empower you to make healthy decisions, and allow you to choose which benefits suit you and your personal life best.

Visit our Global Benefits page to learn more.

Highlights to our core benefits include:
  • Award winning pension
  • On-site health services
  • Private medical insurance packages to suit your personal circumstances
  • Paid parental leave
  • Generous holiday allowance starting at 27 Days plus bank holidays; increasing with tenure
Citi Belfast also champions diversity within our workforce, which helps us be well and live well together. We have over 40 different nationalities in our Northern Ireland offices, are a vocal supporter of LGBTQ+ rights, and are proud to have 47% of our leadership team made up of individuals who identify as women.

We encourage and lead inclusivity through our Pride, Disability, Multicultural, Families Matter, and Women affinity networks that are run by and for, Citi Belfast colleagues; providing them with the support they need in their personal and professional journeys and supplying them with the tools to help educate colleagues on all things related to each network to help us work better together.
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Job Family Group:
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Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

Qualified applicants will receive considerat

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