Collas Crill

Onboarding Specialist

• Manage the end-to-end onboarding lifecycle for complex and high-risk clients, ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements and internal policies.
• Provide expert analysis of screening results, identifying potential risks and determining appropriate escalation or mitigation strategies.
• Act as a key point of contact for clients and stakeholders, managing relationships to obtain and verify CDD, beneficial ownership, and other critical information across a range of structures.
• Liaise with Compliance on risk identification, assessment, and mitigation in the onboarding process.
• Maintain accurate records and audit trails in the onboarding system, ensuring traceability and high data integrity.
• Collaborate with fee earners to facilitate the timely closure of finished matters and ensure effective management of the matter lifecycle.
• Support process improvement initiatives by identifying, proposing, and implementing enhancements to onboarding workflows.
• Act as a subject matter expert (SME) on onboarding, AML/CFT, and CDD requirements, providing guidance on complex cases and regulatory interpretation.
• Mentor, coach, and support the development of junior team members, fostering technical expertise and high performance within the team.

Senior Client Onboarding Analyst

Compliance

• Provide support to MLRO/MLCO for the Jersey Law Firm by acting as Deputy MLRO and ensuring that the Jersey office complies with the firm's compliance and AML/CFT/CPF policies and procedures.****Assist the MLCO in overseeing the effectiveness of all AML/CFT/CPF systems, policies and procedures, and firm-wide compliance with applicable legislation. Assist in the development and maintaining of systems and controls (including documented policies and procedures) in line with evolving requirements
• Compliance Monitoring and Testing - Assist the MLCO in the managing and completion of periodic testing under the quarterly Compliance Monitoring Programme, ensuring all aspects of the AML/CFT/CPF framework are effectively evaluated;
• Sanctions oversight - Oversee and ensure the proper implementation of sanctions screening for Jersey, ensuring compliance with all applicable regulations;
• System and Control enhancements - Recommend amendments to the firm's systems and controls based on findings from the Compliance Monitoring Programme and in response to new or amended regulatory developments;
• Training and development - Assist with the preparation and delivery of Compliance training, including Compliance Induction training and refresher courses on a range of AML/CFT/CPF topics in response to regulatory changes and needs identified by the Compliance Monitoring Programme;
• High Risk clients and matters - Perform pre-onboarding reviews of high-risk clients and matters, including Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs), Industry risks and clients from high-risk jurisdictions, to ensure that transactions are consistent with the client’s business and ensuring that Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) is properly applied. Manage client/matter submission to the Business Acceptance Committee (BAC), ensuring that senior management is properly informed in coming to decisions and that appropriate documentation and justifications are provided for continued high-risk client/matter;
• Review and Adjustment of Client Risk Ratings - Review clients/matters with high-risk ratings that the Partner has requested to be downgraded, ensuring a downgrade to Medium or Low risk is appropriate;
• Register management - Ensure the accurate maintenance and ongoing oversight of regulatory registers, including registers with respect to declined business, PEPs, and requests from the JFSC or other authorities. Regularly review and update these registers as necessary to ensure they reflect the most current and accurate information;
• Compliance advisory - Provide expert advice on the application of legal and regulatory requirements as they relate to Anti-Money Laundering, Countering the Financing of Terrorist, Anti Proliferation Financing and Financial Sanctions regimes;
• Data Protection - Assist with the implementation and oversight of Data Protection compliance as required:
• Deputy Money Laundering Reporting Officer (DMLRO) of Collas Crill LLP. - In the absence of the MLRO, or at the request of the MLRO - Receive, acknowledge and consider internal Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) submitted by an employee of Collas Crill LLP in a timely manner - Document all enquiries made in relation to each SAR and document the basis for reporting to the FIU or the decision not to make such a report - Ensuring where appropriate that all relevant information or other matter leading to the knowledge or suspicion on reasonable grounds of knowledge or suspicion of money laundering, is properly disclosed to the FIU - Securely maintaining adequate records relating to all internal and external SARs - Managing relationships effectively post disclosure to avoid tipping off any external parties - Ensuring appropriate levels of communication are maintained with relevant employees/partners - Report to Collas Crill LLP on a quarterly basis, preparing reports and summarising as appropriate
• Projects - Assist with various ad hoc projects as required by the business, including the implementation, testing, and enhancement of systems and controls.
• Group & Board Report Preparation - Assist the MLCO/MLRO in the preparation of board reports, providing detailed analysis and updates on Compliance activities, risks, and emerging regulatory issues. This includes gathering relevant data, summarising key compliance metrics, and presenting findings in a clear and concise manner to support informed decision-making by the firm's senior management.

Senior Compliance Analyst

• Manage the end-to-end onboarding lifecycle in accordance with regulatory and internal standards.
• Perform screening checks and analyse results.
• Liaise with clients to obtain CDD and verify identity, beneficial ownership, and other required information for individuals and entities.
• Liaise with Compliance on risk identification, assessment, and mitigation in the onboarding process.
• Maintain accurate records and audit trails in the onboarding system, ensuring traceability and high data integrity.
• Collaborate with fee earners to facilitate the timely closure of finished matters and ensure effective management of the matter lifecycle.
• Support process improvement initiatives by identifying, proposing, and implementing enhancements to onboarding workflows.