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Your New Job Title: Head of Compliance and MLRO Chinese speaking

The Skills You'll Need: Fluent Chinese and English, solid Compliance Management and MLRO experience across financial markets regulatory obligations.

Your New Salary: Up to £90k+benefits, depending on the experience

Location: London

Fully office based

Start: ASAP

Who You'll Be Working for:

Our client is an international bank

To be successful in this role our client has said it is essential that candidates:

• fluent in both Chinese and English
• have solid Compliance Management experience across financial markets regulatory obligations
• have solid MLRO experience across financial markets regulatory obligations

If that means this job isn’t a match for you please view our other vacancies for one that may be a better fit.

Chinese speaking Head of Compliance and MLRO - What You'll be Doing Each Day:

The head of Compliance and MLRO will be dealing with SMF 16&17and responsible for all regulatory return, including but not limited to FCA, BoE, HMRC and FATCA & CRS for the Bank. Moreover, he/she will put in place and operating anti money laundering controls and procedures and carry out money laundering risk assessments.

• Establish, implement and maintain adequate policies and policies and procedures designed to detect any risk of failure by the bank to comply with its obligations under the regulatory system and for countering the risk that the bank might be used to further financial crime.
• Advise and assist relevant persons responsible for carrying out regulated activities to comply with the bank's obligations under the regulatory system.
• Ensures adequate training and guidance is undertaken by staff on all aspects of compliance-related and anti-money laundering matters.
• Access and overseeing the firm's compliance with the regulator's rules on systems and controls that prevent the firm being used for money laundering and terrorist financing purposes.
• Receiving reports of suspicious activity from any staff in the business.
• Considering all reports and evaluating whether there is - or seems to be - any evidence of money laundering or terrorist financing.
• Reporting any suspicious activity or transaction to the National Crime Agency (NCA) by completing and submitting a Suspicious Activity Report and providing additional information to NCA when required.
• Requesting the NCA for consent to continue with any transactions that they’ve reported and making sure that no transactions are continued illegally.
• Training staff in preventing money laundering and following regulations.

Chinese speaking Head of Compliance and MLRO - The Skills You'll Need to Succeed:

• More than 1 years’ experience across financial markets regulatory obligations
• Excellent relationship and communications skills, with ability to help drive regulatory compliant and commercially viable solutions.
• Ability to draft and maintain fit-for-purpose compliance policies, procedures, and controls, perform targeted compliance testing, and manage regulatory filings.
• Eligible to work in the UK.
• Fluent oral and written communication skills in Chinese and English
• Self-motivated; team player; good communication skills; circumspection; ability to work independently; dependable; flexible.

Job status: Permanent

Working hours: 9:00am - 5:00pm (With 1 hour lunch break) Monday - Friday

Start date: ASAP

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We would be grateful if you could send your CV as a Word document. If your application is successful, you will be contacted within 7 days. We regret that due to the high volume of applications we receive we cannot provide feedback on individual CVs. Please note that we can only consider candidates who are eligible to work in the UK and are able to provide relevant supporting documentation.

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