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Senior AML Consultant

Senior AML Consultant (15242734/003) Swindon, England

Senior Money Laundering Consultant (Anti-Money Laundering/AML, Payments, Wire Transfer Regulations)
(start ASAP Initially 3-4 months)
Advantage Resourcing are currently recruiting on behalf of our financial services client for a Senior Consultant to work in the client’s AML & ABC function. The primary responsibility is to support the delivery of a project to deliver future compliance with the Wire Transfer Regulations in 2017 by ensuring requirements relating to the identification and verification of customers are delivered.

Activities
•Supporting the delivery of a retrospective ID&V exercise of Retail customers.
•Support the delivery of a customer contact exercise, ensuring legal and regulatory requirements relating to AML are met, whilst balance fair customer outcomes.
•Develop strong relationships with AML senior management, transformation and IT professionals, gaining a comprehensive understanding of their project objectives.
•Support the projects by providing effective and credible SME advice, guidance and recommendations on a range of AML and ID&V issues, stipulating policy/control requirements.
•Participate and contribute to project delivery, influencing the planning and prioritisation of activities and ensuring appropriate governance and challenge is applied to project decisions.
•Ensure AML risks within the projects are adequately identified, assessed, reported/escalated and addressed.


Required experience and knowledge:
•Recent demonstrable experience working in anti-money laundering roles.
•Experience of payments services industry and knowledge of payment services, schemes and processing.
•Strong knowledge of money laundering legislation and the key preventative and detective controls which manage the risks of fraud or non-compliance.
•Good knowledge of money laundering regulatory frameworks and associated acts / application to financial services.
•Experience of project management with good understanding of project management frameworks and practices
•Knowledge of banking and savings products, services and distribution channels.
•Specialist knowledge of financial crime developments within the industry, where possible.

Skills:
•Proven planning, delivery, task and time management skills.
•Proven ability to deliver through others; challenge and support, coach and give feedback.
•Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
•Proven negotiating, influencing and networking skills.
•Ability to act objectively and maintain independence.
•Good analytical skills to assimilate and interpret diverse information.

Qualifications: Desirable to have a professional qualification (e.g. Degree, Higher National Diploma, Associate of Certified Fraud Examiners, International Compliance Association (ICA)).

Submit your CV now to be considered for this fantastic opportunity to work with a well established and respected financial services organisation. Jonathan Brenchley is the consultant managing this assignment and can be contacted on 01612867351.
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