Assistant Vice President, Data Quality Management

Key Responsibilities

1. Team Leader & Performance Management

• • Lead, coach, and develop a team of AML Ongoing Review Analysts
  • Allocate workloads and monitor productivity to meet SLA and regulatory timelines
  • Conduct regular one‑to‑ones, performance reviews, and training needs assessments
  • Act as escalation point for complex or high‑risk cases
  • Support onboarding and training of new staff and contribute to knowledge-sharing initiatives.
  • Drive process improvements, automation initiatives, and remediation programs to enhance efficiency and quality.
  • Stay abreast of regulatory developments, emerging financial crime risks, and industry best practices.

2. AML Ongoing Review Oversight

• • Ensure accurate completion of periodic KYC reviews, trigger‑based reviews, and risk reassessments
  • Review and approve analysts’ work, ensuring consistency and quality
  • Ensure customer risk ratings are accurately assessed and justified
  • Identify gaps in customer information and ensure remediation actions are completed

3. Advanced Customer Due Diligence & Risk Assessment

• • Lead complex, high-risk, and enhanced due diligence (EDD) ongoing reviews, including customers with intricate ownership structures, cross-border exposure, PEPs, and high-risk industries.
  • Conduct and approve risk-based reassessments of customer risk ratings, including justification and documentation for changes.
  • Assess adequacy of source of wealth (SOW), source of funds (SOF), and transactional rationale for ongoing customer relationships.
  • Ensure ongoing reviews are completed in line with regulatory timelines and internal service level agreements (SLAs).

4. Quality Assurance & Risk Management

• • Perform QA checks and thematic reviews to identify trends and control weaknesses
  • Drive continuous improvement to reduce errors, rework, and regulatory risk
  • Ensure adherence to internal AML policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements
  • Support internal audits, compliance reviews, and regulatory examinations

5. Stakeholder & Escalation Management

• • Liaise with Compliance, Financial Crime, Risk, and Business teams on AML matters
  • Escalate material AML risks, suspicious activities, or control issues appropriately
  • Support Suspicious Transaction Report (STR) referrals where identified

6. Reporting & Governance

• • Prepare and present management information (MI) on team performance, quality, and risk trends
  • Track key AML metrics such as overdue reviews, high‑risk customers, and remediation status
  • Contribute to policy updates and procedural enhancements
  • Identify control gaps, recurring deficiencies, and trends arising from ongoing reviews.

Job Requirements

• Min 8 years of experience in AML/KYC, financial crime compliance, or customer due diligence, with significant exposure to ongoing or periodic reviews.

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Banking, Business, Law, Economics, or related field.

• Professional certifications such as Certification in AML-CFT/ Advanced Certification in AML CFT/ or equivalent are strongly preferred

• Strong understanding of Segment Business, Documentation standards and Regulatory Compliance expectations.
• Strong analytical and investigative skills to identify data inconsistencies and validation gaps.
• Familiarity with core banking systems, onboarding platforms and screening tools.

• Knowledge of customer risk assessment frameworks and ongoing due diligence requirements
• Proven people‑management and coaching ability
• Strong decision‑making and escalation judgment
• Excellent written and verbal communication