Senior AML/Sanctions Advisor
Division: Compliance & Ethics The role
Are you passionate about Financial Crime with an eagle eye for detail? Can you connect regulatory and legislative requirements with the Euroclear Business? If you would like to work in an environment, where you will have impact, ‘fight the good fight’ and grow whilst doing something genuinely important for our company, our industry and society at large, then we may have a role for you!
Our team is part of the Compliance & Ethics department responsible for providing advice on Financial Crime issues for the Euroclear Group. Compliance & Ethics is an integral part of the ‘Three Lines’, helping to protect the integrity and improve the reputation of Euroclear in its key role in the global financial markets. Our team consists of Financial Crime Subject Matter Experts with excellent compliance and regulatory experience and expertise!
Responsibilities:
As a Senior AML/Sanctions Advisor you will be responsible for embedding policies into the various entities of the Euroclear Group. You will provide advice to senior management and assistance to the AML/CTF and sanctions business experts and the different lines of business on the concrete implementation of the AML/CTF and sanctions laws, regulations, standards and market practices.
You will work with multiple areas on a daily basis receiving queries and offering expert mentorship across a broad range of topics. You will perform overall risk assessments, define control objectives and work on projects with the wider Financial Crime team that will help refresh and calibrate what we do in a constantly evolving environment.
While we are ideally looking for a candidate who can work across both the AML/CTF and Sanctions domains, a strong expertise in one and a curiosity about the other will also be considered.
Your duties include:
- Assist the 1st line of defence (1LOD) in implementing AML/CTF and sanctions policies and procedures
- Perform the periodic financial crime risks assessment (AML ORA) to ensure that risks are identified, measured, and appropriately addressed, and prepare risk assessment reports to be submitted to the regulators
- Prepare periodic reports that need to be shared with different competent authorities (NBB, Belgian Ministry of Finance, etc.) and contribute to internal Financial Crime reports
- Perform country risk assessments from AML/CTF and sanctions angle, maintain country risk dashboard up to date and discuss with internal stakeholders
- Contribute to the AML/CTF and sanctions risk assessments of new market links and new services
- Deliver AML/CTF and sanctions training and e-learning
- Convert approved AML/CTF and sanctions frameworks into control objectives and assist the implementation of these together with relevant stakeholders
- Coordinate the tracking and review of anti-financial crime implementation plan (gap assessment and remediation plans)
- Support the 1LOD in completion of the PAR/LICA annual exercise and provide independent 2LOD expert opinion
- Assist the AML Compliance Officers in the definition and delivery of their annual plan including preparation of the annual reports
Competencies
- Sound knowledge of AML/CTF and/or Sanctions with previous experience (minimum 3 years) in interpreting or monitoring AML/CTF and/or Sanctions compliance in the financial services sector or in a management consulting firm
- Ability to build and maintain working relationships across business areas and present information and recommendations in a clear and actionable manner
- Have a passion for learning and helping others
- Risk oriented mindset
- Experience in conceptualizing and delivering training is a plus
- You can work both in a team or independently, prioritizing your own workload to achieve deadlines. You are comfortable working with other departments which may have conflicting priorities and can adapt your approach depending on the situation.
- Educated to Master’s degree level or equivalent qualification/relevant work experience
- Solid understanding of Excel
- You have knowledge of the regulatory framework applicable to Investment Funds (e.g. UCITS & AIFMD)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English – ability to analyse and summarise
- Strategic & Commercial awareness – develop and apply commercial awareness and business insight in both day-to-day and longer-term tasks.
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