Role : Compliance Systems Specialist Location : Abu Dhabi Role Purpose:
To provide subject matter expertise into Financial Crimes Compliance systems development, implementation, maintenance, validation, assessment and assurance of fit for purpose for ADIB environment
To provide Compliance specialist input (regulatory and financial crimes compliance) to support and advance ADIB’s Digital Transformation strategy including throughout the customer life cycle and development of digital offerings
Key Accountabilities of the role
Responsible for ensuring that Financial Crimes compliance systems owned by GCD are operating in accordance with approved parameters and continue to be fit for purpose
Assess, recommend, drive and implement architecture, business requirements, testing and validation of Sanctions Screening systems
Assess, recommend, lead and drive implementation of enhancements for AML, Sanctions and Onboarding systems, including reviewing, identifying and addressing system/process/control gaps.
Analyze and optimize the configuration of Firco systems, as required for effective and efficient screening.
Automate and improve Firco system related processes and system controls
Optimizing the systems by performing hit rate analysis and data mining, using tools such as FircoSoft’s tuning suite, MS Excel, Data Lake and Business Objects to identify commonalities & patterns and optimize the systems accordingly including periodic recalibration & tuning, enhancements of FCC systems.
Undertake Transaction Monitoring threshold analysis / scenarios calibration and customer segmentation analysis as per Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
Comprehensive documentation of the configuration and testing of screening systems.
Articulate Business Requirement and prepare Business Requirement Document (BRD) and review Functional Specification Documents (FSD) and ensure it is in line with BRD.
Assess, recommend, drive and implement architecture, business requirements, testing and validation of Sanctions Screening systems
Act as the focal liaison point with IT and/or system vendor(s), lead and drive Sanctions Systems Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing.
Keep abreast of Regtech/Fintech regulatory initiatives and requirements and ensure that ADIB’s digital solutions, products and projects are compliant/provide expert advice to ensure these are compliant with regulations. Provide forward looking expert input into the evolving Regtech/Fintech regulatory environment and industry solutions to advise ADIB’s digital initiatives
Provide compliance and systems expert advice to ADIB digital transformation initiatives, collating all feedback from various Compliance workstreams (regulatory and financial crimes compliance), providing Compliance specialist input on Regtech and Fintech compliance to ADIB business and functional units
Specialist Skills / Technical Knowledge Required for this role:
Experience with compliance systems particularly in relation to Financial Crimes Compliance including AML transaction monitoring, name screening, sanctions filtering, customer onboarding and risk assessments
Experience with data feeds, flows, mapping, quality control and connectivity between static data, transaction, reporting, core banking etc systems and financial crimes compliance systems
Excellent knowledge in data mining and analytical tools, understand and interpret data,
Experience with systems vendor management and internal IT and business stakeholder management and business requirements document development for requisite financial crimes compliance systems
Professional qualifications or industry recognized certifications qualifications in computer science, IT and
Hands on experience Tuning, QA and/or Product Management of Firco Continuity/Trust
Strong knowledge of FircoSoft screening systems including Firco Continuity, Firco Trust, FMM, FML, FLV
Strong understanding of screening technologies, software, algorithms, business rules, exceptions and tuning capabilities
Good analytical/review/assessment skills of sanctions compliance procedures and sanction screening systems
Ability to build constructive and effective relationships with peers and seniors.
Strong knowledge of MS Office including preparing presentations to Senior Management.
Strong analytical, written and oral communication skills
Relationship building
Sound judgment
Strong interpersonal skills
Ability to multi-task
Independence of thought and initiative
Ability to be a self-starter and work independently as well as part of a team
Ability to interact with all functions and levels including senior management
Ability to prioritize workload and meet deadlines
Analytical mind, good communication and self-motivated, detail oriented
Fluent in English (Ability to read and communicate in Arabic Language will be an added advantage)
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