Global Financial Crime Compliance Director

1 week ago


Sydney, New South Wales, Australia AMEX Full time
Lead the Way in Global Financial Crime Compliance

At American Express, we're committed to creating a career journey that's unique and meaningful to you. As a Director of Global Financial Crime Compliance, you'll play a critical role in ensuring the effectiveness and efficiency of our Financial Crimes program globally, while delivering on regulatory expectations at a market level.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Help lead a team of Compliance professionals in the execution of the team's goals and in support of the Compliance organization and business teams.
  • Identify new multi-market impacting regulation or industry trends, assess the impact this will have on AXP processes, and partner with the market compliance teams to set clear expectations on process owners across the 1st and 2nd lines of defence.
  • Ensure market level regulatory expectations are designed into the Global Financial Crimes Compliance Program, to ensure that enterprise capabilities and processes deliver against the regulatory expectations and risk tolerance of every market, across the APAC region.
  • Support the APAC Market Compliance Officer teams to ensure adherence with Financial Crimes program standards and expectations.
  • Identify MIS needs for market teams, and utilize to assess market level program performance, with escalations of issues and themes to local Boards and Risk Committees to ensure the effectiveness of these forums in understanding financial crimes risk and taking informed mitigation decisions.
  • Provide subject matter expertise and ongoing support for effective delivery of 1st Line functions and projects to remediate/enhance all areas of the financial crime program as appropriate.
  • Ensure market compliance teams have appropriate knowledge of the GFCC program capabilities and processes and how these incorporate the local and international requirements.
  • Set consistent requirements for procedures across the markets and support local market MLROs in developing their local procedures, and lead initiatives to harmonize the delivery of the Financial Crimes Program across the region, where possible.
  • Partner with the central GFCC functions on an ongoing basis, to ensure that all local market requirements are aligned with compliance teams and reflected in the Money Laundering Risk Assessment and Customer Risk Rating methodologies and outputs.
  • Collaborate with other regional MLROs and central GFCC functions on an ongoing basis to evaluate and influence global minimum standards to ensure optimum enterprise outcomes that appropriately balance local customization with program consistency and sustainability.
  • Ensure all Screening, monitoring and alert management processes are effective for the market level requirements and that adequate reporting from the GFCC central owned systems is provided to compliance teams across the financial crimes program.
  • Deliver testing and other oversight activities, on behalf of the market teams, to give confidence in the effectiveness of the GFCC program at the market level.
  • Support internal and external regulatory exams/audits related to the GFCC program, and track closure of financial crime action items.
  • Ensure appropriate training is delivered to the Market Compliance teams on GFCC-owned processes and capabilities as required.


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