Assistant Manager – Financial Crime Control

About the role

We are seeking an Assistant Manager to lead our Financial Crime Control function. The role involves managing regulator and law‑enforcement requests, ensuring compliance with AML/CFT regulations, and supporting investigations across the bank.

Key responsibilities

• Handle and assess regulator and law‑enforcement requests, including account freezing/unfreezing, customer information disclosure, and transaction investigations.
• Review legal and regulatory documents to determine appropriate actions and ensure timely case processing.
• Conduct account screening and identify customer relationships, banking activities, and transaction records.
• Retrieve, verify, and analyse customer KYC information, account records, and transaction histories.
• Coordinate with business units and support functions to obtain relevant documents and investigation evidence.
• Prepare case summaries, investigation reports, management updates, and official correspondence.
• Maintain complete and accurate case records while ensuring information confidentiality.
• Ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations, internal policies, and financial crime prevention requirements.
• Liaise with internal stakeholders, regulators, and law‑enforcement agencies to support case resolution.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Banking, Finance, Business Administration, Law, Accounting or a related field.
• 3‑5 years of experience in Compliance, Financial Crime Compliance, AML/CFT, Banking Operations, Risk Management, Regulatory Reporting or related banking functions.
• Experience handling regulatory inquiries, law‑enforcement requests, account investigations or financial crime cases (preferred).
• Strong understanding of banking operations, customer onboarding, KYC, customer due diligence and transaction monitoring.
• Knowledge of banking regulations, financial crime prevention frameworks and compliance requirements.
• Strong analytical, investigative, problem‑solving and report‑writing abilities.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder‑management skills.
• Ability to handle sensitive information with a high level of confidentiality and professionalism.

Required skills

• Core Banking Systems