Regulatory Operations Analyst

Job Title: Regulatory Operations Analyst

Location: Bangalore, India

Role Description

The Level 1 Reviewer are primarily responsible for the appropriate review, confirmation and decision-taking on stopped messages to confirm mismatches for release from the transaction filtering process (first level review) in line with applicable Sanction regulations and the Banks policies and procedures.

Your key responsibilities

Responsibilities includes

• Support the Level 1 team lead in protecting DB from legal, regulatory and reputational risk with regard to business involving sanctioned entities and / or countries.
• Ensure diligent review and confirmation of transactions that require escalation to a Level 2 investigator and decide on these in full compliance with the applicable Sanctions regulations and the banks policies and procedures.
• Execute internal control checks as defined in the KOP documentation and Embargo control framework documents governed by AFC Embargo.
• Support any applicable reporting obligations to the competent authorities with respect to transaction handling.
• Convert timely the update of the relevant embargo lists in respective filtering systems implement the data to central and decentralized tools in GT and Operations.
• Support CoC Regulatory Filtering team on the adoption of new clients.

RTB focus

• Primarily review stopped messages and take a decision on them (either pass or investigate), based on limited set of rules provided and maintained by AFC.
• Record rationale for decision from pre-defined set of options.
• Seek feedback from more senior investigators/reviewers, where their decisions fail the four-eye control.
• Provide support feedback loop and filter optimization by identifying repeat mismatches to propose e.g. Good Guys.
• Use user access privileges only for authorised purposes; actively safeguard sensitive and confidential information.

Training & Development

• Participate Trainings such as on HotScan, Sanctions policies, L1 procedures, specific payment types, including structure / form of messages.

Your skills and experience

• Familiarity with the Sanctions & Embargo
• Knowledge of Swift / Payments
• Risk and Regulatory
• Knowledge of Payment Cycle
• Educated to Bachelors degree level or equivalent qualification/work experience