AML Audit Manager (Banking)

Job Summary

Audit Planning and Management

• Lead audit planning, execution, and reporting and develop comprehensive risk-based audit plans and programs.
• Ensure engagements meet agreed timelines and quality standards and review and approve audit workpapers and supporting documentation.
• Ensure compliance with internal audit standards and audit methodology.

AML and Regulatory Audits

• Lead audits covering AML/CFT frameworks, business risk assessments, TFS, CDD, EDD, KYC, and transaction monitoring.
• Oversee audits of sanctions and name screening, suspicious transaction reporting, AML governance, policies, and regulatory reporting obligations.
• Evaluate compliance with applicable AML, CTF, and sanctions regulations.

Risk Assessment and Reporting

• Evaluate enterprise and customer, product, service, geographic, and delivery channel AML risk assessments.
• Assess risk identification and mitigation, control design and operating effectiveness, and residual risk assessment methodologies.
• Review findings, supporting evidence, root causes, corrective actions, remediation plans, and implementation status.
• Prepare executive-level reports and present audit results to senior management.

Leadership and Stakeholders

• Lead and mentor audit team members, allocate resources, monitor engagement progress, and provide technical guidance and coaching.
• Build effective relationships with business and control functions.
• Support continuous improvement of audit methodologies and practices.

Requirements

• Ability to lead planning, execution, and reporting for AML and compliance audit engagements.
• Extensive knowledge of AML, CTF, sanctions regulations, governance, policies, procedures, and regulatory reporting obligations.
• Ability to evaluate enterprise, customer, product, service, geographic, and delivery channel AML risk assessments.
• Ability to assess control design, operating effectiveness, risk mitigation, and residual risk methodologies.
• Ability to review evidence-based findings, assess root causes, recommend corrective actions, and prepare executive-level reports.
• Ability to lead, mentor, allocate work to, and provide technical guidance for audit team members.
• Ability to manage multiple audit engagements within agreed timelines and quality standards.