Our client, a Top 10 global accounting firm, is looking to hire an AML Assistant for their Limassol office.
The Role:
- You will be an integral member of our compliance team, supporting audit staff assisting us to serve a wide range of clients.
- You will assist us:
- in carrying out our client acceptance and risk assessment procedures
- carrying out AML (anti-money laundering) and other compliance procedures
- understanding our client’s business
- identifying compliance risks and how to mitigate them
- assisting with independence and conflict of interest procedures
- execution of other compliance work as necessary
Key responsibilities:
- Understand and utilize the company's methodology
- Perform your work diligently
- Build your technical knowledge and skills and ensure your professional development paying proper attention to passing your professional exams
- Build your soft skills that you will use to assist in the development of others within the firm and eventually in the firm’s business
- Carry out KYC (know-your-client) and onboarding procedures for new clients and perform reapproval procedures on existing clients as required by the Law;
- Perform screening on clients against specific databases and escalate any issues identified to the AML Manager;
- Ensure that the AML data and the relevant AML documentation held for clients is correct and properly completed;
- Communicate with the clients and update the clients’ AML information, when required;
- Assist with administrative tasks, including filing and organizing KYC documents;
- Support the audit department by requesting, collecting, and coordinating compliance data and information;
- Providing support to the Firm’s AML Manager and Compliance Officer as deemed necessary;
The ideal candidate would be:
- A graduate or school leaver with a strong academic background in finance, business and/or mathematics subjects, or someone who is currently working in an administration or similar support role in a professional firm or finance/banking environment who is looking for a new career opportunity.
They should also possess the following skills:
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Excellent knowledge of Greek and English languages
- Ambition and motivation to progress in a Compliance career
- Genuine interest in business
What we offer:
- Support for a relevant qualification in AML/compliance will be considered as part of the employment package offered.
- Our training programs include structured learning through approved training organisations and job training in a rapidly expanding professional firm that takes pride in its reputation for providing professional services of the highest standard.
We also offer:
- Very competitive remuneration package
- Progression based on merit
- Paid training for professional exams
- Provident fund
- Flexible working hours
- Remote working (from second year)
- Up to 3 paid social days per year to allow you to contribute to social and environmental causes that are important to you
- Friday afternoons off
- Dress for your day
- Fridays off throughout August
- Holiday entitlement from first day of joining the firm.
- Paid maternity and paternity leave
- Mothers support scheme
- International secondment scheme
To apply:
Please send your CV to StaffMatters at admin@smstaffmatters.com and mention that you are applying for the vacancy of AML Assistant with reference number 3002.
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