About Wahed: We have a passion to reduce financial inequality and exclusion by building world leading financial products and services aimed at giving access to all. We are a New York headquartered Financial Technology (FinTech) company focused on serving values-based (shariah compliant) digital financial services to retail clients globally, starting with wealth management. We have an impressive global team aligned with this purpose and are looking for trail blazers in their fields that will take our customer delivery to new levels. We can promise you a digital first and truly international culture, as well as a fascinating immersion into the world of FinTech and Islamic finance.
Job Description:
Performing research on prospective and existing clients related parties to identify and analyse a sanctions nexus.
Relevant experience of Compliance activities particularly in relation to Sanctions preferred.
Conduct internal and external outreach for EDD reviews, Negative news and PEP screening.
Assesses whether alerts raised by sanctions screening systems raise any sanctions concerns.
Follow operational procedures on sanctions alert handling, including document the decision rationale.
Conduct additional background research as appropriate, to help assess risk and mitigate AML Risk.
Job Specification :
2 to 3 years of experience in KYC, AML, Due Diligence.
Should possess strong verbal and written communication skills with an eye for detail
Should be able to handle customer queries through calls/emails and chat.
Knowledge in MS office.
Ability to manage and complete specific tasks with minimal direction
Willingness to continuously learn, upgrade skills and stay relevant to business demands.
