Sr. aml investigator - united arab emirates, abu dhabi

Job purposeto investigate and report suspicious activity and transaction cases that have been referred by peers or external/internal stakeholders. accountabilitiesmoney laundering/financing of terrorism investigation and analysis: monitor the daily investigation activities, detection oftransactions related to the crimes of money laundering; financing of terrorism and of illegal organisations in order to report suspicions to the central bank financial intelligence uni1t (fiu) and cooperate with the competent authorities in relation to aml/cft dutiesinvestigate suspicious cases referred by the aml monitoring unit and cases raised by other external/internal stakeholders in order to ensure escalation of the aml process and support the reportingof such suspicious cases to the central banktake final decisions and consult with the mlro asneeded on suspicious activity reporting to central bank inorder to meet regulatory obligationsdevelop and update regulatory and statutory reportingprogrammes, such as suspicious activity report (sar),liaising with key stakeholders and third party service providers to ensure timely and accurate regulatory reportingattend to fiu queries on filed cases and attend to law enforcement meetings on filed cases in order to provide required information on specific investigationsleverage data analysis platforms and review analytics/ modeling techniques in order to uncover abnormal financial transactions and complex relationshipsanalyse trends and identify typologies in suspicious activity trends and suggest control enhancement in order to mitigate emerging aml/cft risksreportingreview and produce periodic reports and other master information maintained by the department, as required, in order to support the mlrosystem managementensure ongoing review, assessment and enhancement of existing system parameters and thresholds in order to improve effectiveness and efficiencyensure aml model validation is performed to ensure it is calibrated to meet regulatory expectations and international standards  skillsminimum experience: at least 5 years of experience/exposure to banking transactions, compliance, client acceptance and exposure to regulatory anti money laundering requirements in a bankminimum qualifications: bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, commerce or business administrationknowledge and skills:microsoft office (word, excel and powerpoint) understanding of account opening and customer documentationknowledge of customer transactions and behavioursexposure to banking transactionsunderstanding of local/international and central bank rules and regulatory requirementsunderstanding of banking systems, reports and workflows

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