AML Transaction Monitoring Team Lead

undefined ago • 3 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

Act as AML Transaction Monitoring expert — oversee daily transaction monitoring investigations, manage complex cases, and support the workstream manager in guiding and leading a team of AML Transaction Monitoring senior specialists, ensuring operational accuracy, and maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements.
Must have:
  • Oversee daily transaction monitoring investigations
  • Manage complex cases
  • Support the workstream manager in guiding and leading a team of AML Transaction Monitoring senior specialists
  • Ensure operational accuracy
  • Maintain compliance with regulatory requirements
  • Supervise and guide a team of AML transaction monitoring senior specialists on case investigation techniques, risk indicators, and documentation standards
  • Provide informal refresher/training/guidance sessions on evolving emerging typologies or regulatory changes
  • Serve as an escalation point of contact for operational queries or when handling time-sensitive or high-risk alerts
  • Manage escalations for any urgent or complex cases that would require additional information during investigations
  • Identify recurring investigation issues, false positive trends, or operational bottlenecks
  • Propose practical process improvements to enhance efficiency and reduce operational risks
  • Support system testing or enhancement initiatives related to the transaction monitoring platform
  • Review and analyse alerts generated from transaction monitoring systems for potential suspicious activity
  • Investigate flagged transactions by reviewing account activity history, transaction patterns, client profiles, and external data sources
  • Identify red flags such as unusual transaction volumes, structuring, rapid movement of funds, or transactions involving high-risk jurisdictions, suspicious patterns, unusual behaviour, and high-risk activities
  • Take the lead on more complicated investigations
  • Gather supporting evidence from various systems, client documents, and open-source information
  • Prepare comprehensive case reports detailing findings, rationale for decision, and risk assessment
  • Record and document findings including detailed analysis, supporting evidence for potential suspicious activity
  • Prepare report submission to the regulators, where required
  • Support any ad-hoc reviews, thematic investigations, or advisory requests related to specific clients, industries, or transactions flagged by Compliance
  • Ensure investigations and decisions align and comply with local and international AML/CFT regulations
Good to have:
  • Additional certifications in anti-money laundering (AML)
  • Strong knowledge of anti-money laundering laws, regulations, and global sanctions regimes
  • Candidate who can start immediately is highly welcome

Job Details

A. Team & Leadership Support

i. Leading and Management

  • Supervise and guide a team of AML transaction monitoring senior specialists, on case investigation techniques, risk indicators, and documentation standards.
  • Provide informal refresher/training/guidance sessions on evolving emerging typologies or regulatory changes.

ii. Stakeholder & Escalation Handling

  • Serve as an escalation point of contact for operational queries or when handling time-sensitive or high-risk alerts.
  • Manage escalations for any urgent or complex cases that would require additional information during investigations.

iii. Process Improvement Contribution

  • Identify recurring investigation issues, false positive trends, or operational bottlenecks.
  • Propose practical process improvements to enhance efficiency and reduce operational risks.
  • Support system testing or enhancement initiatives related to the transaction monitoring platform.

B. AML Transaction Monitoring Operation (Core Responsibilities)

i. Monitoring & Case Investigation

  • Review and analyse alerts generated from transaction monitoring systems for potential suspicious activity
  • Investigate flagged transactions by reviewing account activity history, transaction patterns, client profiles, and external data sources.
  • Identify red flags such as unusual transaction volumes, structuring, rapid movement of funds, or transactions involving high-risk jurisdictions, suspicious patterns, unusual behaviour, and high-risk activities.

ii. Complex Case Handling

  • Take the lead on more complicated investigations — like:

a) Large or irregular transactions involving offshore or sanctioned countries.

b) Transactions by politically exposed persons (PEPs) or high-risk clients.

c) Rapid fund movement or suspected layering activity across multiple accounts.

  • Gather supporting evidence from various systems, client documents, and open-source information.
  • Prepare comprehensive case reports detailing findings, rationale for decision, and risk assessment.

iii. Reporting & Documentation

  • Record and document findings including detailed analysis, supporting evidence for potential suspicious activity, and prepare report submission to the regulators, where required.

iv. Ad-Hoc AML/ CFT Review

  • Support any ad-hoc reviews, thematic investigations, or advisory requests related to specific clients, industries, or transactions flagged by Compliance.

v. Regulatory & Policy Adherence

  • Ensure investigations and decisions align and comply with local and international AML/CFT regulations.

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