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Workflow Coordination and Oversight Case Assignment: Distribute onboarding, periodic, and event-driven review tasks amongst Analysts and Senior Analysts, balancing complexity and urgency. Workload Monitoring: Track team progress against SLAs and KPIs, ensuring tasks are performed promptly and escalate bottlenecks to the Manager.\n2. Quality Assurance & Escalation Management File Review: Final quality check on completed files, confirming proper application of risk factors, EDD, and full compliance with internal requirements. Issue Resolution: Resolve escalated s from Senior Analysts, including genuine matches on sanctions/PEP/adverse news lists or high-risk profile investigations. Red Flag Management: Oversee analysis and documentation of unusual transaction patterns, negative media, and emerging regulatory risks.\n3. Communication Client Interface: Serve as contact for client and other stakeholders in daily operations. Communicate progress, escalation outcomes, and client queries. Guidance Delivery: Interpret complex AML rules and translate them into clear process steps and guidelines for the team.\n4. Training and Process Improvement Upskilling: Identify training needs, deliver refresher training on regulatory updates or process changes, and maintain skills matrix. Process Review: Review and update procedural documentation, checklists, and forms for clarity and completeness. Audit Readiness: Prepare for internal/external audits or regulatory inquiries, lead file sample reviews, and proactively address findings.\n5. Reporting and Governance MI Data: Collate and verify quality metrics, escalate material issues to the Manager, participate in governance meetings. Continuous Improvement: Recommend enhancements to improve case quality, efficiency, or risk identification.\n6. Know your distribution (KYD) - where applicable\n Case Assignment and Oversight: Allocate KYD due diligence tasks, ensuring complex reviews or high-risk distributors go to suitably skilled Senior Analysts or Specialist staff.\n Agreement and Document Review: Validate that distribution agreements and/or comfort letters contain all necessary Financial Crime (FC) responsibilities and provisions. Escalate any contractual ambiguities or gaps to the designated client function.\n Risk Assessment Oversight: Oversee and approve the risk assessment of the distributor relationship, including reviewing all completed DDQs, Wolfsberg Questionnaires, and analysis on the intermediary’s AML/FC framework.\n Escalation and Consultation: Where the distributor/placement agent’s role is ambiguous or where the reliance status is unclear, consult with the designated client function. Document all communications and escalation outcomes.  Ongoing Monitoring: Ensure periodic reviews of distributor/platform relationships follow risk-based ODD cycle timeframes, with updates to the intermediary’s risk profile and supporting documentation as part of ongoing due diligence.  Quality Control: Review Senior Analysts’ checks and analysts’ documentation for consistency, and lead remediation where deficiencies are found.\nSkills and Behaviours Required:\n 4-6 years’ AML/KYC experience with at least 1 year in a leadership, supervisory or checker function\n Skilled in process management, QA, and file escalation pathways\n Excellent oral and written communication and stakeholder management  Strong risk awareness and ability to apply AML requirements operationally\n Experience managing upskilling/training initiatives Discharge of responsibilities The role holder shall ensure that all their responsibilities are performed to the highest levels of integrity, quality and transparency and in a manner most likely to promote the success of the Client Group, taking into account the interests of key stakeholders including clients, employees, regulators, suppliers and society as a whole. 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