Job Details

The Senior Compliance Officer will be responsible to Maintain and Manage the Bank’s Sanction regime and to assess the bank with Sanction risks associated to the customer on boarding process, Swift transactions both local and international and all the Trade transactions (LC’s).

1.      Review and update the lists being used by bank.

(All the Sanctioned and High risk lists such as UN, OFCAC, EDD and PEP lists are being updated on daily basis and are then downloaded and uploaded to the screening solution by IT department, the whole procedure is looked after by Sanction senior officer and is made sure that the bank is using all the updated global lists for screening purposes)

2.      Maintain and Manage the Screening software. (Sanction senior officer checks the sanity of software on daily basis with all the users. Checking the workflow of all the screening facilities of the solution on daily basis with all the involved departments (PS department, Credit department, IT department, CBS department and all the branches including conventional and Islamic window of the branches)   3.      Monitor that all customers are being screened before account onboarding process. (Sanction senior officer makes sure that all the accounts received from branches are properly screened by branches and matches are dealt with properly by sanction officer and is then verified by the KYC unit)   4.      Review alerts for Transactions/Payment & LC screening process. ü On daily basis when swift messages and LC’s are screened by the related departments, the Sanction senior officer reviews and takes final decision on all the complex and higher ratio matches escalated by the sanction officer)   5.      Manage the Delta screening of existing customers against update lists. (The Sanction senior officer makes sure that CBS department has the full list of AUB clients uploaded to the screening solution whenever any global list is updated and manage the screening procedure and closely coordinate with the sanction officer in clearing all the matches generated through the software against the updated lists)   6.      Assess in controlling the Sanction regime. (The Sanction senior officer closely monitor the bank’s sanction regime and assess the sanction risks associated with the bank’s business activities, daily operation, products and services)   7.      Elaborated screening of all the correspondent relations, high risk individuals and entities. (Whenever a bank is approached by any high risk individuals or entities the Sanction senior officer deeply screens all the involved ends. All the correspondent banks of AUB their signatories and shareholders are screened whenever approached for an account or correspondent relationship) 8.      FinTRACA Watch-list screening and upholding the update list of FinTRACA. (On monthly basis Fintraca watch-lists are received containing of Individuals, corporates and delisted lists for which the Sanction senior officer is responsible to screen all the three lists against the AUB existing clients and in case of true matches the case is raised to Account administration department to restrict the accounts and the issue is shared with operation department to take necessary actions as per Compliance instruction)   9.      Maintain and process all the invoices and revert to all the inquiries and feedbacks received from the vendor.   10.   Training all the new staff of branches on the functions and workflow of the software and resolve the issues of all the departments and branches engaged in the screening solution.

Interested candidates who deem themselves suitable for this vacancy can share their complete profile including (application letter, updated CV, national identity card - tazkera/passport and recent photo) electronically to below mentioned email and please indicate the vacancy number (AUB/HR/024-034) in the subject line of your email otherwise your application will not be considered. jobs@afghanunitedbank.com Only shortlisted candidates who have completed the requirements of the vacancy will be called for further selection process.