Compliance Business Continuity Team Leader
Arab National Bank
Total years of experience :18 years, 8 Months
• Development - Directing and assisting in the development of Business Continuity Plans and Procedures, and providing regular status updates to the Business Continuity Steering Committee.
• Change Management - Assessing the Business Continuity implications of proposed technological or organizational changes, and coordinating any revisions to existing Business Continuity Plans and Procedures necessitated by such changes.
• Administration - Coordinating routine updates to the detailed information supporting the Business Continuity Procedures (e.g., contact lists, personnel assignments, hardware and software specifications, network diagrams, vital records management and inventory lists, off-site back-up schedules, etc.). Coordinating electronic access to, and hard copy distribution of, the Business Continuity Plans and Procedures. Administering contracts and service agreements with Business Continuity service providers.
• Training and Awareness - Ensuring all personnel with specific Business Continuity responsibilities are adequately trained to fulfill their assigned responsibilities. Ensuring all employees maintain their familiarity with the relevant provisions of the Business Continuity Plans.
• Testing and Exercising - Ensuring that all technical components of the Business Continuity Plans are successfully tested at least annually, or whenever significant changes are made to those components. Documenting the results of all tests and exercises, and identifying any recommended enhancements to the Business Continuity Plans and Procedures.
• Execution - Providing 7x24 on-call support for any emergency, which may require activation of all or part of the Business Continuity Plans. In the event that activation is required, serving as liaison between the Crisis Management Team (Business Continuity Committee) and the Business Continuity Team members.
• Preventing unethical, illegal or improper conduct of employees in the assigned areas.
• Ensure there is no violation of procedures, policies, rules or regulation.
• Overseeing and monitoring the implementation of the annual Compliance program.
• Reporting on a regular basis to the Consumer Compliance Head on the progress of implementation, and assisting those parties in establishing methods to improve efficiency of compliance services, and preventing abuse and waste.
• Periodically revising the compliance program in light of changes in the needs of the assigned areas, and in the law and policies and procedures received from SAMA.
• Update of standards of conduct and development of periodical reviews done by the Compliance officer.
• Implementing compliance review and monitoring activities of departments by using Compliance Grids/Matrices to ensure the unit is complying.
• Observe any risk or vulnerability threats the bank, by planning for taking corrective action.
• Ensure that all AML rules and regulation are implemented and all required forms (EDD/CTP) is filled properly with the coordination of AML rules.
• Ensure using Compliance Database to create the policies and procedures or for inquiries.
• Ensure the implementation of any new rules or regulation instantly, and identify the impact if it is (Procedure/Policy/Form/Contract/Services/etc…)
• Ensure ongoing Compliance and AML/CTF training been conducted for all staff under the assigned areas.
• Reporting any Compliance or AML/CTF issues to Consumer Compliance Head.
• Maintain and verify the credit limits as per the standard policies
• Periodic evaluation of customer credit limits
• Develop, initiate, maintain, and revise policies and procedures for the general operation of the compliance program and its related activities to prevent money laundering terrorist financing activities, and to comply with other regulatory guidelines issued by SAMA.
• Work with the Human Resources Department and others as appropriate to develop an effective compliance training program, including appropriate introductory training for new employees and ongoing training for all employees and managers.
• Monitor the performance of the Compliance Program and relates activities on a continuing basis, taking appropriate steps to improve its effectiveness. Ensure all gaps related to Compliance programs are identified and corrective measures are taken promptly.
• Identify potential areas of compliance vulnerability and risk, develop and implement corrective action plans for resolution of problematic issues, and provide general guidance on how to avoid or deal with similar situations in the future.
• Manage day-to-day activities such as reviewing of suspicious transaction reports, sanction-screening reports etc in accordance with the compliance program.
• Carryout ad-hoc investigations or internal reviews as requested by the head of the department.
• In charge of the Centurion and Platinum Cards in product management.
• Arrange yearly communication calendar to communicate offers to Premium Card members
• Liaison with American Express Global Network Services in London and get the latest updates on the product and latest signed offers to offer to Card members.
• More engagement with advertising agencies.
• Lead on marketing projects, from Communication perspective from briefing Communication team till launching the project to Card members.
• Collecting information from all banks in Saudi and compare the Cards benefits with our products.
• Working with different agencies to advertise for the product.
• Assisting the corporate manager to handle corporate accounts.
• Project leader in sponsoring some major events in Riyadh.
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