Team Lead

A Team Lead will be responsible to deliver operational engagements by leading a team of Analysts and Sr. Analysts providing exceptional client / customer experience in an efficient and effective manner, getting it right first time. The ability to engage and communicate with good people management skills and experience are therefore essential, with a demonstrated track record of having successfully led a small team in an operation environment. The role will involve working with other teams within the engagement and the Operations Support team so the ability to build and maintain internal networks will be key to the success of the role.

• Conduct customer risk assessment in full compliance with the firm policies as well as external regulatory requirements
• Understanding about suspicious activity report (SAR) and unusual activity report (UAR)
• Investigate on alerting parties and counterparties along with screening
• Act as the primary point for TM queries and escalate any suspicious activity to financial crime compliance (FCC)
• Ensure completeness and reporting of STR and CTR is maintained up to date.
• Drive process enhancement, identify and implement strategic improvements and enhancements to existing systems, policies, and guidelines to reduce risk and improve efficiency
• Produce regular TM reports to various stakeholders and update them on the evolving changes and call out if there are any grey areas identified.
• Maintenance of Service Levels in the team within the purview of overall engagement management goals encompassing productivity, quality-based outcomes by leading the team of c12 direct reports.
• Actively protecting the client’s interest in every aspect of client delivery including complying with statutory regulations & legislation, maintaining highest standards of quality of the engagement and ensuring that the potential risk to company arising out of operational lapses are minimized.
• 6 – 8 years of post-qualification experience with minimum 5+ year experience with AML Transactional analysis of data, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) signals, Structuring, Experience writing Suspicious Activity Reports In-depth knowledge on banking operations procedures, risk management as well as regulatory compliance standards.
• CAMS, CFE, CFCS or other compliance professional qualification (optional, candidate with relevant additional qualification / certification will be iven priority).
• Planning, Organizing and problem-solving skills
• Good communication & interpersonal skills
• Ability to be customer focused and drive results
• Ability to lead the team and developing others
• Keeping abreast of the latest issues and requirements relating to AML - TM