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Working Environment
Our work is by nature international and multinational. We offer a professional, multicultural and friendly working environment. We aim to ensure our team members can flourish in an environment of mutual respect and cooperation
We are committed to promoting flexibility, collaboration, learning, and wellbeing to ensure
everyone can perform at their best. We encourage curiosity and creativity to find better
solutions and positively impact customer experiences.
We seek ambitious individuals eager to learn, grow, and innovate for a better shared future.
The benefits of this approach include improved employee wellbeing and a more inclusive work
environment.
Our Benefits & Rewards
We have competitive salaries and benefits. Our Reward package includes the following:
- Private medical insurance
- Dental cover
- Optical cover
- Life insurance
- Non-contributory pension scheme
- Group personal pension scheme
- Interest-free season ticket loan
- 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays
- Hybrid working
Learning and Growth
Bank of Africa United Kingdom's growth goes hand in hand with the development of our staff and we are committed to the learning and development of our team members.
We offer on-the-job training and external training to suit business and individual needs.
At Bank of Africa United Kingdom, we believe that our growth is intrinsically linked to the development of our colleagues. We are dedicated to fostering the learning and development of our team members by offering on-the-job training, professional qualifications, and external training tailored to individual needs.
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Capital markets
Our Treasury and Capital Markets division helps clients gain high returns as well as geographic and asset diversification. We offer a broad range of support, through our equity brokerage platform, private equity, foreign exchange and credit trading, structuring and re-packaging teams.
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Our Corporate Banking division provides customised solutions to African and international institutions. Our specialist team provides project finance, export finance, commodity finance, asset-backed financing, acquisitions and leverage finance and working capital needs facilities.
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Teams include Operations, Finance, Legal, Compliance & AML, Internal Audit, Risk Management, Information Technology and Human Resources.
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Bank of Africa United Kingdom offers a range of employment opportunities for talented and dedicated individuals, from graduates to experienced professionals.
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Job Openings
Senior Compliance Officer
Details
Company name: Bank of Africa UK Plc (BOA UK)
Job title : Senior Compliance Officer (Financial Crime Compliance)
Reports to: Sebastian Mensah
Position: Deputy Head of Compliance & MLRO
Contract type: Permanent
Location: London
Overview (Core accountabilities; aims of position; specific responsibilities)
- To support and deputise for the Deputy Head of Compliance (“DHoC”) on Financial Crime Compliance
- Promote confidence in and enforcement of the Firm’s systems and controls with regard to its Compliance and Anti-Financial Crime framework.
- To ensure the Firm’s procedures meet the highest standards expected by BOA UK’s regulators, the legal framework in the jurisdictions in which it operates and industry best-practice guidance.
- Manage firm-wide financial crime compliance training and awareness.
Person Specification
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Organised, methodical, detail-orientated, inquisitive – able to think outside the box.
- Flexible “can do” attitude.
- Always strive for the highest standards and adopt a “best practice” approach.
- Demonstrate leadership/management potential.
- Ability to prioritise and deliver to deadlines.
- Can work independently or collaboratively depending on the task in hand.
Responsabilities: (Day-to-day duties; job process; "typical day")
- Carry out such tasks, reviews and monitoring as identified in BOA UK’s Compliance Monitoring Programme (“CMP”)
- In conjunction with the HoC and DHoC & MLRO, review and update BOA UK’s compliance and financial crime prevention procedures and policies, ensuring they meet current regulatory requirements company policy and are “fit for purpose”.
- Draft Compliance training material for BOA UK staff and provide on-site training to London based staff and regional offices as required.
- Provide management information for inclusion in monthly Board of Directors pack as requested by the HoC.
- Research and report on future regulatory and legislative changes that may impact the firm.
- Day-to-day oversight of the compliance monitoring plan on Financial Crime Compliance ensuring appropriate reporting of matters under review and cause for concern items are investigated and escalated accordingly.
- Attend to the Front office & RM queries, escalations, KYC reviews, reverse KYC, AML risk assessments and remediation of any open audit points related to Financial Crime/AML.
- Prepare monthly Compliance Committee Pack and MI across relevant business areas.
- Review and Sign off High risk files and Compliance Escalations together with the Deputy Head of Compliance & MLRO
- Undertake adhoc Compliance related tasks as instructed by Deputy Head of Compliance.
Qualification and Experience needed
- 5+ years’ experience of compliance and financial crime gained within a regulated Financial Services organisation.
- Knowledge and understanding of regulatory and legislative rules and guidance as set out by the FCA, PRA, JMLSG and HMT and, where appropriate, those jurisdictions where BOA UK operates from.
- Professional Compliance qualification(s) would be desirable but is not a pre-requisite.
- French language skills either fluent or business would be desirable.
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Our Culture
Diversity and Equal Opportunities
Diversity is intrinsic to all aspects of our operations.
To operate worldwide to the highest professional standards, we require a diverse team. Our clients bring together a range of cultural backgrounds and in order to offer them the best service and truly understand our markets, our teams must echo this variety.
Bank of Africa United Kingdom is an equal opportunities employer. Our selection criteria and procedures are frequently reviewed to ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and treated on the basis of their relevant merits and abilities. All employees are given equal opportunity and are encouraged to progress within the organisation.
We welcome applicants with a broad range of cultural backgrounds and experience.
Our Core Values
Our Culture is reflected in our people's everyday actions and in every aspect of our working life.
Our values promote Ethical Behaviour, Excellence, Passion, Respect for Individuals and Client-Driven focus.
Customer Centricity
Customer-centricity at BANK OF AFRICA refers to excellence, efficacy, achievement, and open communication.
Collaboration
At BANK OF AFRICA, collaboration encompasses collective intelligence , goal orientation, and open communication.
Empathy
At BANK OF AFRICA, empathy means putting ourselves in another person's shoes to better understand them and help them improve and move forward. Empathy encompasses concepts such as benevolence, which is the capacity to want good for others, as well as attentiveness and listening.
Empowerment
Empowerment is the process by which a person or a social group
acquires control over the means that enable them to become aware
of themselves, strengthen their potential, and
transform themselves
with a view to development, improving their living conditions and
their environment
.
In our Group, empowerment means giving value
to employees in order to strengthen their commitment and sense of
belonging, in line with the achievement of personal and
organizational objectives. Value encompasses
fulfilment,
recognition, encouragement, professional growth, coaching
, and
mentoring.
Innovation
Innovation at BANK OF AFRICA is defined as a new way of working, based on agility, digital technology, and the simplification of processes, with the aim of differentiation and continuous improvement.
Integrity
Integrity within BANK OF AFRICA refers to fairness, honesty, impartiality, fairness, loyalty, and equity in all actions undertaken, abstaining from any favouritism, and this with regard to fellow co-workers, management, the institution, and its customers.