Compliance Officer (Data Scientist) – APAC FS / KYC Compliance

As the leading European Union bank, and one of the world’s largest financial institutions with an uninterrupted presence in the region since 1860, BNP Paribas offers a wide range of financial services for corporate, institutional and private investors spanning corporate and institutional banking, wealth management, asset management and insurance. 

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Position Purpose:

-Review AML Financial Markets risk and define business requirements for a new cutting edge monitoring solution.

-Strong exposure to Financial markets business lines

-Opportunity to build a rare and valuable expertise on a financial industry “hot topic”

Key Responsibilities:

Within the APAC Financial Security team, you will join a high profile task force aiming at reengineering the AML monitoring framework for financial markets and securities services. You will perform Project Management and Business Analysis tasks with a strong focus on data analytics.

The task force roadmap is as follows :

1.Scoping

-Identify products and business lines in scope (with Front Office Business Managers)

-Mapping of products and booking systems  (with operation)

-Draft settlements flowcharts by business line and market

2.Design new AML models

-Work with FO, Conduct and Compliance teams to identify real life AML use cases relevant to the bank’s specific business

-Liaise with operations to identify data available to cover the risk

-Design, prototype and test new controls

-Model client behavior patterns and try to identify “abnormal behaviors”

3.Review existing models & data feeds

-Analyse alert volumes, review data feeds and existing models 

-Propose improvement points to data feeds and models

-Propose innovative approaches for L1 alert analysis by operational teams

4.Draft business requirements

-Describe new models and detailed investigation methology

-Document Data dictionary

-Draft vendor Benchmark and recommendation in terms of target solution

Competencies (Technical / Behavioral):

-University graduate with relevant professional qualifications and at least 4 years  of hands-on experience in project Management in the banking industry

-Excellent data analytics / data science skills (VBA, python, pattern analysis, statistics…)

-Excellent project management skills : (project documentation, workshop management, presentation skills, stakeholder management….)

-Ability to understand and document complex banking processes ( financial markets end to end flows) 

-Ability to deliver and go the extra mile in a fast paced, competitive environment is critical

-Experience in a consulting firm specializing in financial services would be appreciated

-Good Knowledge of Financial Markets business is a plus

-Experience with AML monitoring not mandatory but would be greatly appreciated

-Ability to draft very high quality project documentation is mandatory