Financial Crime Legal Counsel, Assistant Vice President
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full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Hong Kong • 🇭🇰 Hong Kong
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Lead
About the role
- To ensure that the institution’s activities are conducted in compliance with applicable financial crime laws and regulations
- Development and implementation of best practice legal strategies for risk management and compliance
- Legal advice and support to the business on financial crime laws, regulations, and rules, including anti-money laundering (AML), sanctions, and anti-bribery and corruption (ABC) laws and regulations
- Support other legal teams in representation, of the bank in legal proceedings that raise financial crime issues, such as litigation, arbitration, and regulatory investigations
- Advising on financial crime compliance policies and procedures including to assess compliance with applicable laws and regulations
- Legal research and analysis to stay up to date on changes in laws and regulations that may impact the bank's financial crime compliance practices
- Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc) to solve problems creatively and effectively.
Requirements
- Legal qualification with 4+ years of experience
- Experience in Economic sanctions or embargoes
- Experience in Export controls
- Experience in AML/CTF and the proceeds of crime controls
- Experience in Bribery & Corruption laws including the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the UK Bribery Act and corresponding laws in Asia Pacific
- Candidates with experience in complimentary fields, such as white-collar investigations/litigation or regulatory practice will also be considered.
- Candidates should be self-starters with an interest in learning about financial crime regulations and how they impact financial institutions.
Benefits
- To support Compliance, contributing to and delivering training to educate employees on legal and regulatory requirements related to financial crime.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
legal qualificationfinancial crime complianceanti-money laundering (AML)sanctionsanti-bribery and corruption (ABC)legal researchdata analysisrisk managementexport controlsbribery & corruption laws
Soft skills
problem solvingself-starterinterest in learningcommunicationcreativity