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At Butterfield, we provide specialised international financial services. Operating in multiple jurisdictions, we focus on results, value relationships, and celebrate success. If this sounds like your kind of company, then consider this opportunity to become part of a collaborative team of professionals at a world-leading, independent offshore bank and trust company.
Middle Office 1st Line Control
This role is a critical position in ensuring the Bank meets all its regulatory obligations with regards to our client base whilst supporting the Front Office in ensuring all processes are as smooth as possible for the client. To provide assistance to the Front Office in relation to queries around the onboarding/review process. To assist in data reporting as required and updating of data held in Bank systems. To administer the Bank’s testing programme for Approved Introducers. To carry out the required testing in regard to client on-boarding, periodic and trigger event reviews and other First Line Testing as required ensuring that the requirements of Group Financial Crime Minimum Standards (GFCMS) are satisfactorily adhered to.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Assist in the day-to-day servicing of existing clients
- Efficient testing of Front Office new client on-boarding, periodic reviews and trigger reviews and other processes as required to ensure adherence to GFCMS
- Administration of the annual testing programme for Approved Introducers to ensure compliance with GFSC Handbook and GFCMS requirements, liaison with Approved Introducers to sample test and subsequent reporting of findings
- Support the Front Office as necessary with client on-boarding/review requirements.
- Timely and accurate completion of data reporting as required and accurate data updating
- Undertake other specific duties or projects as may be required from time to time
- Escalation of any identified problems to line management and/or MLRO as appropriate
Your qualifications and skills include:
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Have or be working to a relevant professional AML/ compliance qualification
- Strong knowledge of the GFSC Handbook
- Have/develop a thorough knowledge and application of AML requirements
- Have/develop a thorough knowledge of the Bank's Group Financial Crime Minimum Standards
- Have/ develop system skills to include Word, Excel, T24, Imanage and CMP
- Maintain strong personal organization, prioritization and time management skills
- Maintain excellent communication and inter personal skills to provide support to the business, facilitating full engagement with department sand relevant parts of the Butterfield Group
- Background in a banking control/testing environment, experienced in the requirements for client due diligence
- Critical analysis of work undertaken by the Front Office against Group Financial Crime Minimum Standards forms a major part of this role
- Identification of areas of weakness/inefficiencies in the Bank's policies and procedures
- Confidence to escalate concerns as they are identified to relevant management
Does this sound like you?
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