At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.
Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.
CICO AML:
- Perform compliance operation activities supporting the Market Compliance Officers for International market like overseeing and/executing the AML work.
- Analyze financial documents and statements to identify any suspicious patterns that have occurred or may occur in the future.
- Investigate, measure, and report on the organization's risk of suspicious or fraudulent financial activity.
- Investigating and assessing the financial risks posed by a company's operations and monitoring/regulating high-risk activities.
- Performing PEP reviews - Decision potential matches at the time of onboarding new accounts. Also, perform Enhanced Due Diligence on confirmed PEP’s at periodic intervals for existing customers.
- Performing Sanctions reviews - Decision potential matches at the time of onboarding (Front End Screening) and during the lifecycle of the account (Back End Screening).
- Stakeholder management by leading alignment calls with senior leadership across different business units and obtain concurrence.
Qualification & Skill Set Required:
- Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience within the Big Four or in a bank/financial institution background. The ideal candidate should be someone from a mix of Big 4 audit background and/ internal audit experience/SOX testing/PRSA Testing in a bank/financial institution.
- MBA, Chartered Accounts, Law Graduates, CPA, ACAMS, MBA and individuals with certifications in audit would be preferred.
- Ability to work independently from understanding the regulation, designing the test script, execution of fieldwork testing, communication of findings to business and to reporting gaps.
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills including the ability to conceptualize and break down complex issues into actionable tasks.
- High degree of organization, individual initiative, results and solution oriented, and personal accountability and resiliency.
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills in English.
- Prefer language expertise in a foreign language (Japanese, German, Spanish, etc.)
We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:
- Competitive base salaries
- Bonus incentives
- Support for financial-well-being and retirement
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
- Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
- Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
- Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
- Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
- Career development and training opportunities
American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
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