Compliance Officer - APJ

Compliance Officer - APJ This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office. Who We Are: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE. Job Description: HPE Financial services is where we help organizations create the investment they need for digital transformation, in an innovative and sustainable way. We partner with customers across their entire IT asset portfolio from edge to cloud to end-user. Unique to each client’s aspirations and size, our financial and asset management solutions are anchored by best-in-class tech upcycling services. Join us redefine what’s next for you. HPEFS Governance: Global Compliance establishes the framework and standards, the Regional Compliance Officer oversees APJ implementation and escalation, and local entities retain statutory responsibilities. Under the three-lines model, the first line owns risks, controls and remediation; the second line, Compliance, independently oversees and challenges risk management; and the third line, Internal Audit, provides independent assurance. What you’ll do: 1. AML/CFT, counter-proliferation financing and sanctions  • Coordinate implementation of the HPEFS global AML governance framework and core AML standards across APJ, supplemented by controlled country requirements and regulatory addenda.  • Oversee the regional effectiveness of customer due diligence, beneficial ownership identification and verification, customer risk rating, enhanced due diligence, PEP controls, sanctions and adverse-media screening, ongoing monitoring and periodic review.  • Provide oversight and challenge of higher-risk customer decisions and escalations in accordance with approved global and local approval authorities, without displacing locally reserved statutory decisions.  • Ensure suspicious activity escalation and reporting arrangements are documented, timely and aligned to the requirements of the relevant jurisdiction and financial intelligence unit.  • Coordinate AML/CFT and sanctions risk assessments, control testing, quality assurance, issue management, management information and trend analysis across the region.  • Represent APJ compliance requirements in AML technology design, configuration, data requirements, user acceptance testing, implementation and post-implementation assurance.  • Monitor regulatory developments, enforcement themes and FATF/APG-related changes relevant to the assigned markets and translate them into proportionate actions.    2. Regulatory governance and licence oversight • Maintain oversight of regulatory obligations, licence conditions, filings and supervisory commitments. • Coordinate regulatory change assessment, implementation and closure. • Advise and challenge on products, business change, outsourcing and cross-border activities. • Coordinate regulatory engagements, examinations and remediation through authorised local entities or officers. • Report material risks, breaches, developments and required decisions. • Maintain effective governance, escalation and decision records.   3. Broader compliance risk management • Ove