Area Operations Officer

Job Mandate:

Primary responsible for the Area and all its Branches for the following:

> Ensures continuing compliance with applicable internal policies and guidelines, standards and regulatory requirements.

> Ensures adequacy and effectiveness of internal control and risk management processes.

> Ensures continuing compliance with applicable MLPP provisions.

Duties & Responsibilities:

1. To ensure the readiness of branches in the area of supervision for audit examination by conducting regular review of previous audit exceptions and to prepare them for audit examinations.

2. Monitor and support branches during audit examination. Ensure branch timely compliance on the submission of requirements noted and agreed during the audit exit conference for the regularization of lapses.

3. Reports to Area Head the status of outstanding audit findings and secures commitment on resolutions.

4. Performs random checking on the AMLA compliance on regulatory requirements and reports findings to Area Head.

5. Performs review and checking of Items for Regularization and reports compliance and findings to Area Head.

   Administrative:

6. Performs as overall Compliance Coordinator for the Area and reports concerns noted.

7. Support the branches on special projects and report completion by providing feedback to the Area Head.

8. Performs other duties that may be assigned from time to time.

   Control and Compliance:

9. Keeps system passwords, and all related to bank operations with utmost confidentiality.

10. Adheres to all PPCs of the bank, AML and BSP while imposing such adherence to his/her supervised staff.