The Commission is seeking an experienced and driven professional to join our Financial Crime Division as an Assistant Director, leading our Data Analysis and Returns function.
The successful candidate will oversee the analysis of regulatory data to identify financial crime risks across the Bailiwick, support the development of high-quality management information, and play a key role in shaping supervisory priorities, policy development and industry engagement. They will also lead and develop a small team, ensuring high standards of delivery and continuous improvement.
We are looking for someone with strong experience in financial services, financial crime, or regulatory environments, alongside excellent analytical and communication skills. This role offers exposure across all sectors of the Bailiwick’s financial services industry, as well as the opportunity to contribute to the ongoing enhancement of Guernsey’s international reputation as a well-regulated financial centre.
Highlights of the role include:
- Leading with aspects of event driven supervision including:
- Reacting to events that come to the Commission’s attention that could raise an AML/CFT/CPF supervisory concern. Such events should be recorded in the triage module of PRISM, the Commission’s supervisory framework and software application
- Identifying findings and trends emerging from the annual financial crime risk returns completed by firms and following up on areas of concern.
- Advising on and assisting with the handling of applications for licences, products and exemptions from an AML/CFT/CPF perspective.
- Leading or taking part in ad-hoc on-site inspections when required.
- Reviewing scopes for inspection and post-inspection reports and proposed risk mitigation programmes to ensure actions are proportionate and outcomes focussed.
- Analysing data collected on firms to enhance the Commission’s understanding of ML, TF and PF risks at an individual firm and on a sectorial basis and developing high quality management information.
- Identifying themes from inspections and headlining them to the industry where required.
- Overseeing the Data Analysis and Returns team including taking responsibility for the Division’s data analysis, KRI alerts and Prescribed Businesses invoicing.
- Being responsible for the annual review of the residual risk ratings attributed to all entities subject to AML/CFT/CPF supervision, in conjunction with the Risk Unit.
- Being responsible for monitoring the up to six Directorships Registration Regime and highlighting to senior management cases requiring supervisory intervention.
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