Associate Director - AML/CTF Institutional
On-siteHong Kong, Hong Kong
Job Summary
Deliver Financial Crime and Fraud risk management activities across divisional processes, products, and value chains. Translate financial crime requirements into practical business outcomes and articulate their value to stakeholders. Interpret and apply Group Risk policies, standards, and regulatory obligations within the division. Support impact and risk assessments, design and uplift effective AML/CTF controls aligned to enterprise frameworks, and identify control gaps to support remediation actions. Provide risk insights and analysis on risk appetite across customers, channels, and products while monitoring control effectiveness. Partner with business teams to embed sustainable financial crime and fraud risk management practices within the Financial Crime and Fraud Centre of Excellence.
Required Qualifications
- Deep AML/CTF subject matter expertise
- Strong knowledge of financial crime risk management frameworks and regulatory obligations
- Strong understanding of broader financial crime risk themes including Sanctions, Anti-Bribery & Corruption and Fraud Risk
- Ability to apply risk expertise pragmatically within complex business and operational environments
- Proven experience conducting risk assessments
- Proven experience designing and evaluating controls
- Proven experience driving risk mitigation outcomes
- Strong analytical capability
- Ability to translate data and insights into practical risk uplift initiatives
- Demonstrated experience embedding risk frameworks
- Demonstrated experience driving regulatory change
- Demonstrated experience driving remediation initiatives within financial services
- Sound judgement
- Ability to balance risk, customer and business outcomes
- Excellent stakeholder management skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent influencing skills
- Ability to engage with senior leaders
- Ability to engage with governance forums
- Ability to drive collaboration across business, risk and control functions
- Tertiary qualifications in Business, Law, Risk or a related discipline
- Professional certifications such as CAMS or CFE
Desired Qualifications
- Ability to translate financial crime requirements into practical business outcomes
- Ability to articulate value to stakeholders
- Ability to interpret and apply Group Risk policies, standards and regulatory obligations within the division
- Ability to support impact/risk assessments and implementation activities arising from regulatory, policy or risk standard changes
- Ability to partner with business teams to design, uplift and embed effective AML/CTF controls aligned to enterprise frameworks
- Ability to identify control gaps, weaknesses and emerging risks
- Ability to support the development of remediation actions
- Ability to provide risk insights, analysis and advice on risk appetite across customers, channels and products
- Ability to monitor control effectiveness
- Ability to escalate concerns where risks remain outside appetite
- A growth mindset
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