Job Title: Anti-Money Laundering Analyst (BA2) – 00159734
Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for customers and clients worldwide. With over 300 years of history and expertise in banking, we operate in over 50 countries and employ over 140,000 people.
Barclays Bank provides large corporate, government and institutional clients with a full spectrum of solutions to their strategic advisory, financing and risk management needs.
We provide corporate banking solutions to businesses with an annual turnover of more than £5 million in the UK, and to large local companies, financial institutions and multinationals in non-UK markets. We support the success and growth of our clients by providing lending, risk management, cash and liquidity management, trade finance, and asset and sales financing loans, financing, risk management, strategic advice and transactional payments support corporate clients to achieve growth and job creation in the real economy, governments to deliver their stability and growth plans, and institutions to meet the long-term investment needs of their clients.
Job Summary: The Anti-Money Laundering Analyst will primarily;
- Support the Country MLRO in implementing a robust AML/ KYC, ABC and Sanctions Regime.
- Implement AML compliance processes and methodology as prescribed in the group policy and Country CIPP.
- Enforce strong KYC standards, commensurate with the country’s local conditions
- Take lead in the review and monitoring of suspicious transactions and AML Alerts in accordance with the requirements of Barclays Africa framework and local standards.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Functional Management: 90%
- Ensure timely review of the AML alerts produced
- Responsible for the efficient review of the AML alerts as per the EM defined six pillars for alert disposition and ensure effective record retention
- Ensure adequate and complete resolution of the AML alerts when closing the alert without SAR reporting
- In charge of effective and timely SAR reporting
- Effective and timely reporting of KYC / AML and sanctions MIS, in country and to MLRO
- Offer full support to the business in AML, sanctions and KYC related queries.
2. Business Coordination: 10%
- Maintain excellent relationships with the business team to ensure achievement of business goals.
- Ensure prompt and adequate compliance responses and support provided to the business
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate should possess an advanced knowledge of the EM AML/KYC/Sanctions/Pep’s Policies and procedures
- Excellent knowledge of MS Office, comfortable with numbers, MIS
- Highly proficient in report writing
- The applicant should have comprehensive banking market knowledge and possess a high level of innovation
- Detailed understanding of the Ugandan Market operations
- Exhaustive knowledge of business functional areas
- Excellent Analytical skills
- Excellent Communication skills & Interpersonal sensitivity
- The candidate should be action & result oriented
- High degree of Resilience
- Excellent Planning and organizational Skills
How to Apply for the job:
If you feel challenged by any of the above positions, and believe you can deliver on key deliverables as outlined above, upload your application letter, current curriculum vitae and photocopies of academic certificate to our recruitment website detail below:
Barclays is an equal opportunity employer that recruits, develops and promotes people on merit, and rewards outstanding performance, regardless of background and gender.
For queries contact us on 0417122453 or email: barclays.uganda@barclays.com
Deadline: 3rd June, 2014
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