Latin America Aml Core Officer, Vp

Citi has established a comprehensive Global AML Program to help protect both our clients and our franchise from money laundering, terrorist financing risks and related financial crimes.

The foundation of this global program is Citi's Anti-Money Laundering Policy, which provides a globally consistent framework to identify and mitigate AML risks as well as to comply with AML laws and regulations.

The Compliance AML Core Officer (LATAM AML Governance & Data Strategy Lead) is responsible for the oversight, optimization and maintenance of transformation strategies focused on implementing best -in-class AML Compliance policies and practices, processes, and controls to strength the AML Program execution across the region, serving as an advisor to stakeholders such as AMLCOs, Clusters Heads, Regional & Global Teams.

The LATAM AML Governance & Data Strategy Lead is a seasoned AML professional whose mission is to provide sustainable solutions with strategic direction considering operational analytics and insights to enable risk-based decision making in four main areas:

- ** AML Risk Assessment**:

- Maintain strong communication with Global risk assessment team acting as liaison between them and in country AML teams to support LATAM countries in accordance with the Global AML program & local AML regulatory requirements on AML risk assessments providing timely, accurate, and complete responses to comply regulatory requests. Define best practices support Citi's transformation effort.
- Timely identification of changes related with AML risk assessments in Citi's policies, LATAM AML regulations and its implementation/standardization to local documents and procedures providing credible challenge in support of AML program’s effectiveness and promptly raise and escalate areas of concern.
- Analyze comparative data, prepare and present reports related to AML risk assessments, and monitor AML related issues and escalations.
- Working collaboratively within team and more broadly across business/functional line management to assess complex issues, structure potential solutions and drive effective resolution within permissible statutory and regulatory frameworks.
- ** Data Governance**:

- Partner with data governance teams to support common global/regional activities and projects impacting the execution of country teams related with AML regulatory reports.
- Support data owners & data providers identification at an appropriate level of granularity with the respective documentation.
- Support to prioritize data concerns based on risk, and help support efforts to socialize them with respective data owners & providers.
- Monitor & reports metrics related to LATAM AML data transformation (w/special focus on AML regulatory reports).
- ** AML Regulatory Reports**:

- Provides guidance to AML officers and their business partners globally in all matters affecting the program and works closely with AML Operations and Technology to ensure the most effective use of tools and resources in the Reporting process.
- ** LATAM AML transformation**:

- Interact with Management to raise awareness of Sanctions trends, emerging issues, remedial actions or enhancements to the program. Assessing the impact of issues/violations (legal/regulatory, policy, reputational, etc.) and dimensions control process gaps to help management define disciplinary and corrective actions, as appropriate.
- Support global/regional initiatives that solve common challenges in the execution of the AML program across the region by participating actively in incubators and tanks, sharing knowledge, and contributing with experience and ideas to outline sustainable project plans that contribute to a continuous improvement culture.
- Develop approaches/action plans to compliance and control issues by weighing various alternatives and balancing potentially conflicting situations
- Utilize information from regulatory changes, new regulations, and internal policy changes to further identify new key risk areas
- AML Advisory (support & innovation): Partner with other LATAM AML regional functions to directly interact with key clients, in order to manage risks (i.e. AML call reports, assess client's controls) or to address challenges to the relationship (i.e. educate client on KYC requirements, financial crimes best practices sharing to clients).

Advise and recommend a plan of action for management based on analysis of risk information.

Requires strong analytical skills in order to elaborate strategic plans by filtering, prioritizing and validating potentially complex and dynamic data from multiple sources.

Strong communication and diplomacy skills are required.

Assumes informal/formal leadership role within teams and posses the ability to coach junior members of the team.

**QUALIFICATIONS**:

- 8+ years of AML experience within financial institutions, regulators or related industry participants.
- Bachelor's/University degree.
- Knowledge of AML regulations, Audit and/or R