With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
Job Summary
Performing core financial crime operational procedures for High Risk and PEP customers focusing on specific customer due diligence, Customer Screening, Onboarding, Ongoing Reviews and Customer Exits in compliance with the Anti-Money Laundering Customer Due Diligence Standard (CDD) and ABSA AML policies.
Job Description
Accountability: Service Delivery
- Applying the Anti-Money Laundering Customer Due Diligence standard (CDD) together with the Anti-Money Laundering Life Cycle Standard (CLS), PEP Standard and all other ABSA policies in support of AML to daily operational procedures.
- Develop an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the AML CDD Standards and Financial Crime Operations Processes.
- Focusing the work on key regulations and risks, with minimum supervision.
- Delivering a high standard of work by keeping up-to-date on financial crime regulatory related issues across a range of topics by awareness of current regulatory / process changes through attendance at training sessions and research.
- Ensure productivity and quality targets are met.
- Provide guidance to team members and peers by sharing best practice.
- All mandatory training completed to deadline and understood within given timescales.
- Where applicable, all key risks identified, tracked, logged and managed as per the Risk Framework procedures
- Where applicable, all risk events (incidents) or control failures to be escalated, investigated, reported and fixed at root cause to prevent reoccurrence.
- Keep track of and manage own daily targets by ensuring awareness of own daily, weekly and monthly targets
- Prepare monthly Performance Development (PD) plan to monitor progress and if there is any development required as per PD contract, which needs to be escalated to the manager / team leader
- Maintain and continuously look for opportunity to develop skills and knowledge base
- Initiate training and development on a quarterly bases for own personal development purposes
- Applying the Anti-Money Laundering Customer Due Diligence standard (CDD) together with the Anti-Money Laundering Life Cycle Standard (CLS), PEP Standard and all other ABSA policies in support of AML to daily operational procedures.
- Develop an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the AML CDD Standards and Financial Crime Operations Processes.
- Focusing the work on key regulations and risks, with minimum supervision.
- Delivering a high standard of work by keeping up-to-date on financial crime regulatory related issues across a range of topics by awareness of current regulatory / process changes through attendance at training sessions and research.
- Ensure productivity and quality targets are met.
- Provide guidance to team members and peers by sharing best practice.
- All mandatory training completed to deadline and understood within given timescales.
- Where applicable, all key risks identified, tracked, logged and managed as per the Risk Framework procedures
- Where applicable, all risk events (incidents) or control failures to be escalated, investigated, reported and fixed at root cause to prevent reoccurrence.
- Keep track of and manage own daily targets by ensuring awareness of own daily, weekly and monthly targets
- Prepare monthly Performance Development (PD) plan to monitor progress and if there is any development required as per PD contract, which needs to be escalated to the manager / team leader
- Maintain and continuously look for opportunity to develop skills and knowledge base
- Initiate training and development on a quarterly bases for own personal development purposes
Higher Diplomas: Law, Military Science and Security (Required)
Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.
Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised
