Position: AML Team Lead
Company: Paymentop
Category: Other
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper
Published: 2023-09-01T00:00:00+03:00

**You will be responsible to help us build a trusted Risk System. As Senior Manager, you’ll lead the incident management, monitor and investigate suspicious financial activity, and do your best to  understand financial transactions and identify trends.**

**The primary responsibilities for Compliance AML:**
- Creation and updating of AML procedures and policies based on risk assessment, customer verification, transaction monitoring, and regulatory reporting;
- Creation and updating of Sanctions screening procedures;
Active Management and QA of transaction monitoring and red flag investigations;
- Suspicious activity identification, monitoring, and reporting;
Ensuring that AML systems, procedures, and standards are consistent with specific customer segments, including local requirements;
- Identifying, managing & escalating suspected and actual money laundering sanctions breaches and fraud cases through the relevant escalation path;
- Ensure AML/TM/Antifraud systems, procedures and standards are in line with our  Policies;
- Development and tracking of key risk indicators (KRI's);
- Providing business AML expertise, identifying an AML gap, implementing controls, advising and monitoring corrective actions, improving procedures and policies;
- Identify trends and use data to suggest improvements to effectively resolve service issues, escalating appropriately;
- Assist with the review of new controls to mitigate risks and reduce false positives to improve efficiency across the team;
- Perform quality assurance of the performed AML/TM/Antifraud by AML specialists;
- Prioritize the work and backlog for AML/TM/Antifraud by AML specialists;
- Perform capacity planning of the KYB specialists and act as a hiring manager in the time additional hiring is needed;
- Generate suspicious activity reports and risk management reports;
- Ensure the confidentiality of all information collected during an investigation;
- Revealing non-logical patterns in the nature of transactions;
- Assist support to resolve customer issues within the scope of existing service level agreements;
- Monitor constantly customer and transactional records to identify unauthorized transactions and fraudulent accounts;
- Oversee development, integration, and evaluation of TM the anti-fraud infrastructure;
- Determine existing fraud trends by analyzing accounts and transaction patterns;
- Re-build and structure knowledge base for AML team, identify gaps, restructure for convenience;
- Prepare reports to the Compliance Committee to communicate all relevant compliance issues and escalate any important or high-risk compliance issues.

 **Requirements & Skills**
**Must have:**
- Good knowledge of financial regulatory requirements and AML risk implications;
- Experience with regulatory AML, CTF, ABC, and related topics;
- Demonstrated knowledge of contemporary risk management models, developing KPIs, assessing control effectiveness, and, developing management and board reporting;
- Proven history of building and maintaining strong relationships and using strong interpersonal skills and ability to gain credibility to build, lead and manage the risk framework;
-  Proven professional ethics and integrity;
- Sound judgment and ability to analyze situations and information.

**Required:**
- 1-year experience working on AML within Financial licensed companies;
- AML Certification Or Qualified;
- Experience with high-risk clients/sectors;
- Experience in a licensed financial company;
- Experience in successful passing external audit;
- Experience in international legal settings.