Citi Banking Group Careers – Country Compliance Officer

Organisation: Citi
Group
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About Citi:
Citigroup has the world’s largest financial services network, spanning
140 countries with approximately 16,000 offices worldwide. It also holds over
200 million customer accounts in more than 140 countries. It is one of the
primary dealers in US Treasury securities. According to Forbes, at its height Citigroup
used to be the largest company and bank in the world by total assets with
357,000 employees until the global financial crisis of 2008. Today, Citi is
ranked 20th in size under the Fortune 500 list. In comparison, JPMorgan Chase,
which is ranked 16th on the Fortune 500, is now the largest bank in U.S. as of
2012.
Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions
with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer
banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, and
wealth management.
Job Summary: The Citi
Country Compliance Officer will mainly coordinate and monitor day-to-day
compliance with institutional standards and related regulations applicable to
the business.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities: 
  • Ensuring Citi’s compliance risks are
    adequately identified, assesses, controlled and monitored; advising the
    Business on compliance risks;
  • Significantly contributing to a ‘no
    surprise’ culture by educating and communicating compliance awareness
    throughout the organisation;
  • Routinely escalating all potential or
    identified regulatory issues to senior management.
  • Ensuring compliance with applicable money
    laundering laws, rules and regulations and ensuring that Citi’s Global
    Anti-Money Laundering Policy; practices, procedures and controls are
    implemented by the business.
  • Raise Anti-Money Laundering (AML)
    compliance standards across the business and implement compliance best
    practices across and in line with Citi’s raised compliance bar.
  • Raise the visibility of AML compliance
    through specifically improving communication across the business and
    industry.
  • Make sure that the comprehensiveness and
    relevance of AML Compliance Training in the entire business for new hires,
    transfers in and existing staff.
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience: 
  • The ideal candidate must possess a
    University qualification – Bachelors Degree
  • Possess relevant AML related qualification
  • The suitable candidate must have
    experience in working with teams to deliver agreed service standards.
  • Good working knowledge and understanding
    of Bank policies and Procedures with a good understanding of Legal
    Principles and the regulatory framework.
  • Prior Internal work experience within
    Citibank.
  • At least five years banking experience
    with solid knowledge of local environment.
  • Good standing as an Anti-Money Laundering
    Compliance Professional within the industry with related qualification.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified candidates who desire to join the Banking sector
with Citi, the world’s largest financial services network, should express
interest by visiting the e-recruitment website below.

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