AML/CFT Auditor

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Main Duties:

1. Operational Oversight

· Direct and oversee day-to-day audit operations, ensuring all client assignments are progressing according to agreed timelines, budgets, and scope;

· Maintain a centralised assignment tracker covering status, deliverables, deadlines and responsible staff, with escalation protocols for delays;

· Supervise scheduling and resource allocation to ensure optimal use of team capacity;

· Oversee offsite operations at client premises, ensuring logistics, documentation, and reporting are properly managed;

· Ensure audit outputs (working papers, reports) are reviewed and approved before release to clients;

· Follow up with clients on pending documents, clarifications, or approvals required to complete engagements;

· Ensure continuity of audit operations especially for time-sensitive assignments;

· Regularly assess the efficiency of control systems, flag operational risks to senior management and recommend effective improvements;

· Develop and implement policies and procedures as may be required for the provision of the services provided by the Company;

· Act as the primary operational point of contact for client boards, MLROs and compliance teams during audit execution;

· Manage follow-ups on remediation actions post-audit, ensuring clients address deficiencies identified;

· Oversee timely and accurate preparation of reports for regulators, ensuring delivery of required documentation.

2. Strategic Development & Business Growth

· Identify opportunities for new service lines (e.g., thematic reviews, regulatory gap analyses, outsourced MLRO);

· Evaluate the operational feasibility of new ventures and ensure adequate capacity before execution.

3. Quality Assurance & Control Systems

· Design, implement and enforce daily monitoring controls to ensure assignments meet internal quality benchmarks;

· Conduct ongoing review of audit testing procedures, ensuring they remain consistent with methodology and regulatory expectations;

· Identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, or recurring issues in operations and initiate corrective measures.

· Report daily/weekly progress and operational KPIs to senior management.

4. Financial Oversight

· Monitor invoicing, collections, and engagement profitability to ensure assignments are financially sustainable;

· Authorise and track expenditure related to assignments (e.g., travel for offsite audits, software licences, external consultants);

· Provide regular financial oversight reports to senior management, highlighting delays in collections or unprofitable engagements.

5. Team Supervision

· Assign tasks to team members, monitor daily progress, and provide on-the-spot guidance where required;

· Review staff outputs, ensuring quality and consistency across working papers and reports;

· Conduct daily/weekly operational meetings with audit staff to track progress and address blockers;

· Oversee performance, identify skill gaps and organise targeted training or mentoring to strengthen delivery capacity.

6. Training & Capacity Building

· Lead internal training sessions to build technical audit and compliance expertise within the team;

· Deliver external client training programs on AML/CFT obligations, audit findings, and best practices, as and when required;

· Evaluate training effectiveness and update programs in line with regulatory changes and evolving AML/CFT risks;

· Mentor and develop audit staff through ongoing supervision and knowledge-sharing;

· Maintain an internal knowledge base of evolving typologies, regulatory circulars, and industry best practices;

· Brief senior management and staff regularly on emerging risks and compliance expectations.

7. Additional Duties

· Undertake other cognate duties assigned by senior management, particularly where operational coordination is required;

· Attending client meetings as and when required;

· Reporting during Board meetings and at frequent dashboards of the Company.

Qualifications:

· Degree in Law/ Finance/ management or other related qualifications.

· Minimum 7 years of experience as an auditor;

· Prior experience in an audit firm would be an advantage;

· Strong knowledge of industry processes and regulations;

· Outstanding communication and interpersonal abilities;

· An analytical mindset with excellent organizational skills.