Function – Specific Activity
AML/CFT and ABAC
- Ensure the Company’s policies and processes are kept up to date with relevant laws, regulations and guidelines in relation to AML/CFT, Know Your Customer (KYC) and ABAC, including overseeing and implementing appropriate compliance programmes.
- Develop or enhance compliance policies, manuals, procedures, systems and control mechanisms in line with regulations and best practices, ensure that the policies are communicated with all employees in the Company.
- Ensure proactive and timely identification, assessment, advice and dissemination of evolving regulatory change/practices throughout the Company across the region (with a focus on Malaysia).
- Maintain appropriate relationships with relevant regulators, authorities and independent auditors and liaise with them on audits, reporting and implementation of corrective measures.
- Oversee the completion and submission of Data & Compliance Reports to BNM.
- Conduct regular Institutional Money Laundering/Terrorism Financing Risk Assessments and Corruption Risk Assessments.
- Conduct internal compliance reviews on the AML/CFT and ABAC compliance programmes to identify gaps against regulations and internal policies and recommend or implement corrective measures.
- Establish, enforce and maintain effective processes (including training and development of appropriate supporting tools) to ensure that compliance policies, procedures and standards are effectively implemented across the Company.
- Perform management reporting to the Board, Senior Management and Group Director, Legal & Compliance on compliance risks and issues.
- Provides regulatory advisory on compliance-related matters to business units or member offices.
- Undertake investigations on suspicious transactions/activities escalated to Compliance and submit STRs to BNM where necessary. Provide guidance to stakeholders concerned in regard to any follow-up actions and monitor the closure of such actions.
- Review and provide comments on ABAC-related matters in relation to client policies, agreements, contracts, questionnaires etc.
- Prepare training materials and provide trainings to the Board, Senior Management, new and existing employees on the Company’s policies and compliance programmes.
Beneficial Ownership reporting
- Provide advisory to business units in relation to the Companies Commission of Malaysia’s (CCM) Guideline for The Reporting Framework for Beneficial Ownership of Legal Persons.
- Provide guidance to the business units on BNM and the CCM’s respective Beneficial Ownership requirements.
- Assist business units with matters relating to the disclosure of the Company’s shareholding/Beneficial Ownership information to regulators/external parties.
Risk Management
- Support Group Risk on all Risk Management matters including manage Incident Reporting and Risk Register on the firm’s Risk Management platform.
- Support Group Risk on Group Insurance, Personal Protection and Business Continuity Management.
People Management Activity
- Liaise with Regulators
- Liaise with Internal and External Auditors
- Liaise with Management
- Liaise with Business Units
- Report to Group Director, Legal & Compliance