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The Risk & Compliance Sr Associate will perform sanction screening process and anti-money laundering anti bribery and corruption due diligence process as part of the third-party risk management program. This role support and maintains procedures and controls to mitigate compliance risk. Key areas of support provided to team members include; risk management, communications, audits, training, process capability/process improvement, and compliance general support.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

Third Parties Due Diligence

• Perform Sanction screening and risk assessment for new and existing suppliers, and when process is enhanced, for suppliers whose information changes across the course of the year or as strategically defined by the Sanctions Compliance Program
• Reconcile, consolidate information, when necessary, to arrive at the completed Vendor Master Data list per country, per sector and work with the VMD Team as necessary to ensure accuracy of vendor information.
• Perform data quality validations and databases reconciliation to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Perform due diligence process for Third parties prior to their activation in the Master Data & existing Third parties following a risk-based approach.
• Support Risk & Compliance to ensure that all issues identified are properly documented, discussed, and escalated as per global procedures and policies.
• Perform Data Cleansing for assigned ASPAC countries or assist in cleansing for other regions when necessary.
• Coordinate with Vendor Master Data Team when necessary to obtain additional information.
• Update the excel data bases with the metrics / KPIs for tracking purposes.
• Perform assigned ad hoc tasks or projects related to Third Party or Sanctions Compliance Program.
• Support Internal Audit and Regulatory Agencies on any documentation required in case a Due Diligence evidence is required by them Perform sanction screening process to third parties.
• Work with the Team on planning the gradual scoping in of all ASPAC countries in the cleansing and screening activities.
• Provide value to stakeholders and the team by imparting experience and perspective on how the screening process can be improved.
• In Partnership and cross collaboration with Risk & Compliance team members will assure that all Due Diligence requests are timely processed.
• Support regional requestors providing guidance on documentation required to conduct the Due Diligence process.
• Collaborate to update regional policies, procedure, DTPs and work instructions to reflect current processes.

Other Duties & Responsibilities:

• Seek to continuously learn and improve knowledge and skills by identifying developmental opportunities with supervisor. Participate in appropriate training sessions and share lessons learned. Competently apply knowledge of new skills learned to existing projects and work.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Finance, Compliance, Regulatory, HCC, and other risk functions
• Drive continuous improvement and identify areas of opportunity
• Partnership and cross collaboration with all regions LATAM, EMEA, NA, ASPAC to develop a team spirit, share best practices and suggest process improvements as needed on Suppliers Due Diligence process