Maybank Securities is a fully owned Investment Banking arm of Maybank, one of Asia's leading banking groups and Southeast Asia's fourth largest bank by assets.
In addition to performing core remediation and name screening tasks, this role will take on a leadership function within the team. You will oversee junior team members, provide guidance on complex cases, and ensure consistent quality across all deliverables. The successful candidate will serve as a point of contact for internal stakeholders and assist the line manager in workflow coordination and reporting. Prior experience in a team lead or supervisory role in KYC operations is highly preferred.
Job Description
- Lead the team of analysts, providing guidance, support, and oversight on day-to-day remediation activities
- Conduct name screening for individuals and entities as part of client lifecycle management
- Review and discount open alerts based on prescribed guidelines
- Work with internal stakeholders including Business and Compliance in the resolution of hits
- Ensure quality assurance across the team
- Support ad-hoc projects or any other team support initiatives as required.
- Coordinate with internal stakeholders and clients to obtain required documents to complete review and resolve KYC-related issues and queries
- Conduct name screening such as PEP, sanctions, court records and negative adverse news screenings via one or more research tools (eg. Google, World-Check, Lexis Nexis or other search engines)
Our ideal candidate
- 5 to 7 years of working experience in KYC.
- Ability to understand regulatory requirements, translating them into operational procedures.
- Experience in risk classification and understanding of AML risks (PEP, sanctions, and reputational risk) and financial crime regulations.
- Strong knowledge of screening and research tools such as World-Check, LexisNexis, Factiva or other research tools
- Experience operating within a makerchecker control framework and ability to produce well-documented, audit-ready case files with clear rationale and risk assessments.
We regret that only short-listed candidates will be notified.
