Financial Crime Compliance Projects coordinator

Ayvens is creating a leading global player in sustainable mobility.
Within Ayvens, the compliance function must ensure the Group compliance to all banking, financial and privacy regulations. To do so, its main missions consist in:

• Ensuring that all non-compliance risks are identified and that the Ayvens Group respects all regulatory and supervisory expectations,
• Evaluating the impact of legal and regulatory evolutions on the Ayvens Group activities and the compliance setup,
• Defining norms and procedures allowing to manage compliance risks,
• Providing advice on new products and activities, or on significative changes to existing products or activities,
• Ensuring the proper management of risks by LOD1 and the implementation of an adequate control setup,
• Identifying, evaluating and escalating breaches and incidents,
• Training staffs and promoting the compliance culture in the Group,
• Advising and informing the General Management and the Board of Directors on non-compliance risk.

KYC/ AML and Projects within FCC pillar

• The Compliance Function is organized around 4 pillars, which includes the Financial Crime Compliance (FCC). in charge of identifying and managing all risks related to a lack of adherence to regulations and standards from a financial crime perspective.
• Under the supervision of the Head of FCC Compliance, the FCC pillar is composed of the following key risks and activity domains:
  
  • Clients and transactions : management of dealflow advisory and approval,
  • Sanctions and Embargos : contributing to manage and monitor of the S&E framework in terms of governance, procedures and controls, monitoring and reporting – under the supervision and in full alignment with SG central Sanctions and Embargos team
  • KYC/AML : manage and monitor the AML/TF framework in terms of governance, procedures and controls, the application of vigilance obligations, monitoring and reporting, in alignment with SG central FCC.
  • FCC projects : driving and monitoring FCC related projects (end of integration and continuous improvement) for Ayvens

Key missions for the FCC projects coordinator

Under the supervision of the Head of AML KYC monitoring manager, he/she will coordinate any FCC related project which contributes to continuously improve the framework, with the following objectives:

• Conduct all FCC related projects for Ayvens (mainly but not limited to KYC AML/TF Standards, TOM, screening framework)
• Coordinate with Ayvens IT/CPLE the implementation of FCC tools accordingly with requirements.
• Coordinate with Central team within IRB/CPLE or Group Compliance the implementation of FCC tools in accordance with requirements.
• Assist local correspondents on FCC local set up (Group and local project lead)

Key roles and responsibilities of the FCC projects coordinator consist in :

• Defining the project scope and stream organisation to address the various run sub-topics (QA, processes, tooling, control tower, IT, reporting, KPIs/ KRIs, continuous improvement, Norms, governance/ comitology…)
• Coordinating with the Risk & Compliance transformation team to ensure Compliance requirements are properly integrated in transversal projects and timely delivery for compliance projects
• Referent on Ayvens FCC projects: key contact point for the countries and Ayvens IT/Compliance with respect to the FCC tools
• Strong cooperation and alignment with SG Central compliance team : management of exemptions/ precising SG requirements and joint cooperation to define roadmap in alignment with expectations on FCC tools

To succeed in this role, you have the following skills and experience: 

• ENGLISH MANDATORY
• Successful experience in an operational KYC/ AML department in different functions
• Good knowledge of the regulatory and financial crime environment (KYC, S&E, AML)
• Experience in operational Project Management roles
• Ability to propose solutions, direct decision making and project implementation
• Management of stakeholders from different departments at different levels of the organization and ability to facilitate decision making.
• Strong knowledge of SG Compliance environment
• Interpersonal / communication skills
• Positive and energizing attitude
• Knowledge of the leasing business is a plus
• Teamwork
• Ability to adapt

Position based in RUEIL MALMAISON (Hauts-de-Seine) or Amsterdam.

Ayvens, a subsidiary of the Société Générale Group specialising in automotive financial services, provides services to large corporates, small to medium sized companies and private individuals. Ayvens offers a high-quality and innovative driver mobility solution to customers across 43 countries worldwide or through commercial alliances in 16 countries.

The combination of ALD and LeasePlan into Ayvens represents a unique opportunity to leverage on our companies’ complementary capabilities and to create a leading global player in sustainable mobility with a total fleet of 3.5 million vehicles. 

Ayvens Central functions are responsible for the group's development and the supervision of activities to promote creation of synergies and to provide business and technical support, through its coordination role.

The Central Finance function will contribute to the creation of value for Ayvens by being a strategic partner to the business, as well as to guarantee and control the reliability of data, processes and technology used to produce financial information.