Alaa Alarjah, Senior Screening and Sanction Officer

Alaa Alarjah

Senior Screening and Sanction Officer

Al Rajhi Bank

Location
Jordan - Amman
Education
Bachelor's degree, Banking and Finance
Experience
9 years, 1 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :9 years, 1 Months

Senior Screening and Sanction Officer at Al Rajhi Bank
  • Jordan - Amman
  • My current job since January 2019

▪ Review and verify all the transfers and LCs, BCs, LGs that have been routed through user level 1 compliance department

▪ Review AML monitoring through the use of the SAS system that provides alerts on client’s account daily transactions which fit with certain parameters based on AML scenarios.

▪ Keeping up to date with latest sanction and embargo information and updating banks lists and sources accordingly, providing initial recommendations.

▪ Review banks policies, procedures, products and services insuring that they all fall in line with the regulations issued by the central bank of Jordan.

▪ Conduct annual monitoring projects on the banks department and branches to uncover any areas of non-compliance on an operational level and report to the relevant party in order to develop action plans to correct the areas of non-compliance.

▪ Evaluate new products and services to determine the level of risk.

Provide appropriate in-house training highlighting the gabs noted and associated development opportunity

screening and sanction officer at alrajhi bank
  • Jordan - Amman
  • July 2016 to December 2018

Check all bank transactions against international blacklists  , Conduct annual monitoring projects on the banks department and branches, monitoring AML and daily transaction, product  and services risk assessment, screening and investigation all international trade finance (LCs, BCs, LGs) and international outgoing transfer, reviewing policies and procedure, keeping up to date with latest sanction and embargo information and updating banks lists and sources accordingly, Providing initial recommendations, AML incident assessment and evaluation for reporting purpose, reviewing and managing the relationship with banks that we deal with and insure that all information and KYCs are available and updating

Support customer Service Officer at Alrajhi Bank
  • Jordan - Amman
  • March 2015 to July 2016

▪ Preparing the contracts for personal and car and home finance.

▪ Listen and respond to customer needs.

▪ Provide information about products and services.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Banking and Finance
  • at Al-Balqa` Applied University
  • July 2013

Specialties & Skills

Fraud Prevention
Sanctions
Compliance
Ability to cope with stress. . Fast ability to learn technologies. .ability to take responsibility
microsoft exel
microsoft word

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Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
Expert

Memberships

ACAMS
  • associat
  • February 2017
INTERFIMA
  • member
  • December 2019
ACAMS
  • Member
  • May 2017
INTERFIMA
  • member
  • December 2019

Training and Certifications

Sanction (Training)
Training Institute:
the Institute of Banking Studies
Date Attended:
November 2016
Duration:
15 hours
Certified Compliance Proffesional (CCP) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2018
Certified Compliance Specialist (CCS) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2019
Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2017