Banking Job-Head of Compliance and MLRO Chinese speaking-London-M

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The Skills You'll Need: Fluent Chinese and English, solid Compliance Management and MLRO experience across financial markets regulatory obligations.

Your New Salary: Up to £90k + benefits, depending on the experience

Location: London

Fully office based

Start: ASAP

Who You'll Be Working for:

Our client is an international bank.

To be successful in this role our client has said it is essential that candidates:

• Fluent in both Chinese and English
• Have solid Compliance Management experience across financial markets regulatory obligations
• Have solid MLRO experience across financial markets regulatory obligations

Chinese speaking Head of Compliance and MLRO - What You'll be Doing Each Day:

The head of Compliance and MLRO will be dealing with SMF 16 & 17 and responsible for all regulatory returns, including but not limited to FCA, BoE, HMRC, and FATCA & CRS for the Bank. Moreover, he/she will put in place and operate anti-money laundering controls and procedures and carry out money laundering risk assessments.

• Establish, implement, and maintain adequate policies and procedures designed to detect any risk of failure by the bank to comply with its obligations under the regulatory system and for countering the risk that the bank might be used to further financial crime.
• Advise and assist relevant persons responsible for carrying out regulated activities to comply with the bank's obligations under the regulatory system.
• Ensure adequate training and guidance is undertaken by staff on all aspects of compliance-related and anti-money laundering matters.
• Access and oversee the firm's compliance with the regulator's rules on systems and controls that prevent the firm from being used for money laundering and terrorist financing purposes.
• Receive reports of suspicious activity from any staff in the business.
• Consider all reports and evaluate whether there is - or seems to be - any evidence of money laundering or terrorist financing.
• Report any suspicious activity or transaction to the National Crime Agency (NCA) by completing and submitting a Suspicious Activity Report and providing additional information to NCA when required.
• Request consent from the NCA to continue with any transactions that they've reported and ensure that no transactions are continued illegally.
• Train staff in preventing money laundering and following regulations.

Chinese speaking Head of Compliance and MLRO - The Skills You'll Need to Succeed:

• More than 1 year of experience across financial markets regulatory obligations
• Excellent relationship and communication skills, with the ability to help drive regulatory compliant and commercially viable solutions.
• Ability to draft and maintain fit-for-purpose compliance policies, procedures, and controls, perform targeted compliance testing, and manage regulatory filings.
• Eligible to work in the UK.
• Fluent oral and written communication skills in Chinese and English.
• Self-motivated; team player; good communication skills; circumspect; ability to work independently; dependable; flexible.

Job status: Permanent

Working hours: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm (With 1 hour lunch break) Monday - Friday

Start date: ASAP

We would be grateful if you could send your CV as a Word document. If your application is successful, you will be contacted within 7 days. We regret that due to the high volume of applications we receive we cannot provide feedback on individual CVs. Please note that we can only consider candidates who are eligible to work in the UK and are able to provide relevant supporting documentation.

People First is committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or whether or not they have a disability.

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