Director, Financial Crime Compliance Surveillance and Investigation

Job Purpose

'1) Ensure financial crime compliance surveillance and investigation to comply with internal regulations, legal regulations, and international practices and in line with TCB's risk appetite.
2) Develop monitoring programs and measures to identify, and warn early to prevent and reduce risks related to financial crimes for banks
3) Contributing to promoting a culture of compliance, proactively identifying and preventing risks of employees across the bank in terms of monitoring and investigating compliance with financial crimes

Key Accountabilities (1)

'- Orienting the implementation of monitoring/surveillance and investigation programs to prevent money laundering and financial crime risks in an appropriate and effective manner with the bank's strategy and business development orientation.
- Define and maintain specific standards for evaluating the quality of surveillance and investigative programs
- Proactively propose and coordinate with relevant departments to develop appropriate and effective monitoring programs.
- Update and assess the risks and impacts of emerging money laundering and financial crimes to deliver improvements to address the growing threat of financial crime, specifically to assess the quality of monitoring/surveillance and investigation.
- To be responsible for the periodic and unexpected reports related to the quality and progress of the monitoring and investigation work.
- Orientation to develop training programs and improve professional capacity for related units or departments in the bank.
- Coordinate with relevant levels/units to make appropriate decisions on dealing with customers/customers' transactions and government agencies.
- Coordinating, interacting, and maintaining relationships with relevant units/parties/levels to implement financial crime compliance investigation and monitoring activities
- Responsible to the Head of Financial Crime Compliance and Chief of Corporate Affairs Officer for the operations in charge.
- Perform other tasks as assigned by the leaders

Key Accountabilities (2)

Oversee human resources planning and execution (headcount & costs) of their function/ sub-function 

Attract, onboard and retain the right talents for a high-performing team 

Key Relationships - External Stakeholders

- The State Bank and other regulatory agencies, financial information analysis units; Police
- Industry partners / Correspondent banks / International organizations

Success Profile - Qualification and Experiences

Professional competence:
- Understanding and experience in banking products and services
- In-depth knowledge of anti-money laundering (AML), counter-terrorism financing (CFT), fraud, and sanctions… Understanding of FATF, Basel, EU AML Directives, and domestic legal requirements.
- Experience in handling investigations, analyzing suspicious transactions, building monitoring programs, and applying technology in monitoring and investigation
- Ability to analyze and assess risks

Leadership:

- Strategically oriented thinking about goals and plans, ability to lead and manage teams towards short-term and long-term goals
- Ability to design and execute clearly, logically, and creatively
- Open-minded and ready to accept highly challenging tasks
- Ability to solve problems and cooperate effectively towards common results and goals
- Ability to build and develop, connect teams

Other skills:
- Skills in processing data, analyzing data, evaluating, and synthesizing information from many different sources.
- Applying technology and improving the efficiency of data management for investigation.
- Communication and working skills with management agencies, investigation units, and senior leaders.
- Ability to adapt and apply new working methods such as Agile….