Key Responsibilities of the Financial Security Department:
The Financial Security team is responsible for the administration of the core Financial Security processes, which, inter alia, include:
Financial Crime, Bribery & Corruption, Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR), Investigations, Training;
Sanctions, Enhanced Due Diligence, Transaction Monitoring, General Advisory;
Quality Assurance checks on client files and bank controls;
Governance of the Financial Security program (attend committees, produce management information, participate in risk assessments)
Monitoring\Controls
1. The Financial Security (FS) Department (Reviews and Monitoring):
- Monitoring of Financial Security enhanced due diligence workflow (work queue);
- Monitoring and maintenance of Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) / Ultimate Beneficial Owners (UBOs) workflow and log;
- Monitoring of high risk transactions alerts (Fircosoft);
- KYC Quality Assurance checks;
- Investigate Financial Security and Crime related issues;
- Financial Security quarterly FS Committee Meetings;
- Statistics including 2 Enterprise Wide Risk Assessments (EWRA’s);
- Third Party Payments;
- Transaction alerts treatment.
Intern Role Summary
The Intern would be part of the Financial Security Team, reporting to the Senior Compliance Officer, key responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Assisting in various Financial Security projects as and when required;
- Assisting FS team members with the preparation required for regular committee meetings;
- Assisting with the collating of statistics for various reports;
- Attending training sessions held for and/or by the Financial Security team;
- Assisting in the drafting of enhanced due diligence summaries;
- Liaising with Business Lines on Financial Security related queries;
- Maintaining training statistics, attendance and follow ups.
Note: relevant training is provided.
2. Regulatory Training
- Assist with the administration of training on Financial Security e-Learning courses, ensuring that all relevant staff have received mandatory face-to-face Financial Security training;
- Assist with the administration of training records.
3. Periodic Reporting and meeting attendance
Assist with the collation and documentation of numerous Financial Security reports as requested which will include:
- Regular reports to Senior Management;
- Statistics for the FS Committee and Internal Control Committee (ICC);
- Logs creation and tracking as required;
- Attendance and record keeping for the Financial Security team meetings;
- Assist in Compliance and Financial Security projects as and when requested.
4. Regulatory Projects
- Assist with the administration and project management of internal investigations and Financial Security projects if requested
Legal and Regulatory Responsibilities
- Comply with all applicable legal, regulatory Financial Security and internal Compliance requirements.