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Compliance Manager
canopy · Kingston, Jamaica
About The Role
MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
RISK MANAGEMENT
- Ensuring the development, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of a risk assessment
- framework
- Monitoring and updating policies and procedures for risk measures in the various business units.
- Monitoring the risk register and identifying potential changes in the environment affecting the
- segment.
- Ensuring risk registers align with key business objectives.
- Providing support to risk owners in defining and rating risks.
- Communicating industry and regulatory updates and assisting in third-party due diligence.
- Conducting risk assessments for all business units.
- Reporting on risk assessments, trends and control weaknesses to senior management.
- Overseeing and monitoring the closure of internal/external audit matters.
- Conducting self-audits to ensure adequacy of controls and compliance with policies and procedures.
- Assisting in annual business continuity planning (BCP) activities, including risk assessments, business
- impact analysis, and testing exercises.
- Facilitating risk management training to increase awareness and participation at the entity level.
- Supporting the building of a risk culture in keeping with the stipulations of the FSC and other
- regulatory bodies.
- Performing any other duties assigned.
COMPLIANCE
- Updating policies, procedures, and programmes including those related to Anti- Money Laundering
- (AML), Counter-Financing of Terrorism (CFT) and Counter-Proliferation Financing (CPF) compliance.
- Ensuring staff are trained, at least annually, on AML/CFT/CPF and fraud awareness.
- Assisting in the development and revision of compliance matrices, programmes and policies to
- reflect changes in the organization’s needs, laws, regulations, and procedures related to compliance
- issues, at least annually, or as required.
- Informing and training staff on changes to policies and procedures
- Monitoring and testing, on an ongoing basis, the effectiveness of the compliance programmes and
- the taking of the required corrective actions when and where required.
- Ensuring the completion and timely submission of all regulatory reports to the responsible bodies
- within the respective territories.
- Conducting testing of new and pre-existing policies to ensure they are operationalised and
- maintained in accordance with the established policies and laws.
- Conducting of AML/CFT/CPF compliance assessments across the organisation.
- Ensuring all records are kept safely and securely to ensure the timely retention, retrieval and
- destruction of documents as per applicable legislation.
- Ensuring policies opened for high-risk customers are reviewed on an ongoing basis.
- Performing any other duties assigned.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATION, EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
- o A professional anti-money laundering certificate (ex. Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist)
- o A professional risk management certification
- o Bachelor’s degree in Risk Management, Management Studies, Finance, Accounts or equivalent
- o Strong working knowledge with understanding and interpreting legislation
- o Three (3) years’ experience in a similar capacity
- o Knowledge of the Regulations and Acts governing the Financial Services industry
- o Knowledge of the various regulations governing AMLA/CFT/CPF
- o Sound knowledge of the Financial Services industry
- o Facilitating the identification and mitigation of enterprise risk
- o Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, e.g. WORD, EXCEL, POWERPOINT
- o Strong understanding of the use of information technology and the operation environment in
- financial institutions
- o Strong communication and presentation skills
- o Ability to develop policy and procedure documentation.
- o Excellent interpersonal and analytical skills.
- o Ability to maintain a high level of integrity and confidentiality.
- o Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
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