AML Specialist (Trade Finance)

Job Title: AML Specialist (Trade Finance)

Department: Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) / Trade Finance & Transaction Banking

Reports To: Trade Finance AML / Financial Crime Compliance Manager

About the Role

The Trade Finance AML Specialist plays a critical role in safeguarding the bank against money laundering, terrorism financing, and trade-based financial crime risks arising from trade finance transactions. The role is responsible for conducting pre‑ and post‑processing AML/TBML checks on trade finance instruments (e.g. Letters of Credit, Bank Guarantees, Bills of Collection, Trade Loans), identifying and assessing red flags, and ensuring transactions comply with Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) and, where applicable, Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) regulatory requirements. The role also contributes to the bank's digital transformation agenda by exploring AI and agentic AI solutions to strengthen and streamline trade AML controls, working with bu...