The Financial Crime Compliance function strengthens the MFSA's role in preventing money laundering, terrorism financing, and other financial crimes involving Authorised Persons. It supports the Authority's authorisation and supervisory teams across all sectors and collaborates with the Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit, the Sanctions Monitoring Board, and other national and international stakeholders through various Memoranda of Understanding. The function is structured into three teams: onsite, offsite, and policy and risk. The onsite team conducts AML supervisory inspections as agents of the FIAU, the offsite team oversees licence holders to detect and mitigate risks, and the policy and risk team monitors legislative developments and supports their implementation within the function.

About the Role During the Employment Period, the Employee shall carry out the following duties:

Collate, analyse, and process data through a range of tools such as MS Excel, and to also ensure that such data and other records are kept up to date;
Carry out research analysis;
Carry out pre-visit preparatory work;
Compile supervisory information for statistical purposes;
Coordinate with Supervisory functions, other local authorities and Licence Holders;
Communication, support and customer service of internal and external stakeholders;
Undergo other duties and tasks as may be assigned by senior management according to exigencies as may be required.

About You To qualify for this role, you will need to be currently reading for a first degree in any of the following subjects: criminology, law, accounting, banking and finance, and/or any other related course.

The applicant must also possess: the ability to multi-task and, work both on own initiative and in a team; good knowledge of MS Office particularly MS Excel and MS PowerPoint; have good verbal and written communication skills; and have a desire to learn.

Other Information The MFSA is an Equal Opportunities Employer as certified by the NCPE (National Commission for the Protection of Equality) and is committed to a policy of equal opportunity in all aspects of employment and will take care to avoid any form of discrimination in its recruitment procedures. The MFSA reserves the right to withdraw this call at any time and not to select any of the Candidates.

It is the responsibility of applicants in possession of qualifications awarded by Universities and other similar institutions outside Malta to produce a recognition statement on comparability of qualifications issued by the Malta Qualifications Recognition Information Centre (MQRIC). Applicants should do so preferably at application stage or otherwise at the preliminary interview should an applicant be selected for such interview. Details can be obtained by accessing the National Commission for Further and Higher Education website on under MQRIC heading.

The MFSA shall ensure that any processing of personal data is in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation), the Data Protection Act (Chapter 586 of the Laws of Malta) and any other relevant European Union and national law. For further details, you may refer to the Data Protection Policy on the MFSA webpage .

Candidates are to note that the submission of any false statement/s or omission, even if unintended, may lead to the cancellation of their application and may render the candidate's appointment liable to termination.

Furthermore, please note that candidates may be asked to submit any documentation in support of the information provided, including but not limited to, proof of qualifications and Police Conduct Certificates.

Pre-Graduate Officer

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