APAC Financial Crime Regional Coordinator

4 days ago


Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Northern Trust Full time
About Northern Trust

Northern Trust is a leading global financial institution with a rich history dating back to 1889. As a Fortune 500 company, we have established ourselves as a trusted provider of innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions.

We pride ourselves on our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity, which have enabled us to maintain a strong reputation and build long-lasting relationships with our clients.

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced APAC Financial Crime Regional Coordinator to join our Risk Management team. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing, executing, and coordinating the Global Financial Crime Compliance Programme, ensuring alignment and harmonization of activities across EMEA and APAC teams.

Key Responsibilities
  • Deploy the Global framework consistently and efficiently across all APAC legal entities, working closely with EMEA to ensure alignment and develop efficiencies.
  • Represent Financial Crime Compliance at APAC and regional committees and project groups.
  • Coordinate stakeholder feedback on Financial Crime Compliance-related policy and programme reviews.
  • Oversight of Transaction Monitoring and Sanctions activities.
  • Maintain and develop local and regional assurance frameworks.
  • Define Financial Crime Compliance training needs in APAC and develop training materials.
  • Work in partnership with the wider Compliance, Financial Crime Compliance, Risk, and Controls teams.
  • Provide support for audit/compliance reviews and regulatory examinations.
  • Manage Compliance testing, internal audit, and external audit interactions.
  • Undertake projects and reviews as directed by the International Head of Financial Crime Compliance.
Requirements
  • Fluent in English and ability to communicate in a clear, concise, and effective manner (verbal and written).
  • Strong knowledge of APAC financial crime compliance laws and regulations.
  • Experience in dealing with senior leaders and ability to influence the 1st line of defence to implement change and minimize the risk profile of APAC legal entities.
  • Experience in regulator engagements and supporting regulatory on-site visits.
  • Experience conducting gap assessments of new laws and regulations.
  • Experience in defining a risk-based approach and implementing harmonized controls and processes.
  • Preference for strong knowledge of Custody, Payments, Asset Servicing, FX, Fund Administration, and/or Securities Lending businesses as well as corporate governance such as outsourcing, data privacy, and bank secrecy requirements.
  • Ability to collaborate and maintain positive partnerships with business partners while at the same time remaining objective, with an ability to make an independent assessment of the risk environment and business challenges, and work toward practical risk mitigation actions.
  • Proven track record in making risk-informed judgements, based on sometimes limited and/or ambiguous information, and leading facilitation of issue resolution.
  • ACAMS certification preferred.
  • Financial crime compliance experience in an international bank preferred.
  • Strong organizational skills, a collaborative approach to work, with strong interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to communicate with stakeholders to ensure timely and efficient management of key deliverables.
  • Ability to take initiative and work unsupervised in a proactive manner.
  • 10+ years industry experience.


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