Assistant Vice President KYC Quality Assurance Specialist
DBS Bank Ltd is a Singapore-based bank providing personal, SME, corporate, institutional, wealth management, financial markets, and digital banking services. Its clients include consumers, small and medium-sized businesses, corporations, and institutional customers.
About DBS Bank Ltd
DBS Bank Ltd provides banking products and services including accounts, cards, insurance, loans, investments, digital banking, payments, trade finance, foreign exchange, commodities, investment solutions, and derivatives clearing. Through its SME business, it supports businesses with financing, cash-flow management, online banking through DBS IDEAL, sustainability programmes, and business-growth initiatives. The bank serves personal customers, SMEs, corporate and institutional clients, and wealth-management customers across its regional markets.
Skills
About the Role
You will maintain and enhance AML/CFT governance and controls. You will perform quality assurance for account openings, customer due-diligence reviews, and name-screening alerts; report findings; coordinate audits and compliance testing; deliver training; update procedures; and drive continuous process improvement.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree
- 8–10 years of experience in KYC, AML, risk, or controls
- Private banking experience preferred
- Knowledge of private banking KYC/AML regulations including HKMA, MAS, CRS, and FATCA
- Understanding of private banking services and operations
- Knowledge of AML legal and regulatory requirements, compliance principles, and corporate governance
- Communication and interpersonal skills
- Presentation and report-writing skills
- Project management and problem-solving skills
- Written and spoken English and Chinese
- CAMLP, AAMLP, CAMS, or equivalent qualifications are a plus
Responsibilities
- Maintain and enhance the AML/CFT governance and control framework
- Execute quality assurance for account openings, CDD reviews, and name-screening alert clearance
- Generate finding reports and propose quality-improvement initiatives
- Brief management and stakeholders on deficiencies, suspicious AML activities, and non-compliance issues
- Conduct data analysis and prepare presentation decks and MIS reports
- Coordinate internal and external audits and compliance testing related to KYC reviews
- Prepare management reports to strengthen control procedures and processes
- Deliver internal AML training and quality-assurance sharing sessions
- Conduct Risk and Control Self-Assessments
- Maintain and update KYC quality-assurance operational manuals and guidelines
- Coordinate and implement regulatory and policy-driven process changes
- Mentor junior team members
- Drive improvements in output quality and efficiency
- Represent the team in KYC, compliance, and related meetings
- Monitor global AML/CFT developments and integrate internal procedure updates
- Undertake assigned ad-hoc tasks and projects