Sanction Screening Assistant

MARTRUST: WHERE FINTECH MEETS MARITIME

MarTrust is a leader in digital payment solutions in the shipping industry.

With transformative products and a strong value proposition (including a built for maritime e-wallet and card), our transformative products have garnered tremendous market response and fuelled substantial growth.

Currently processing $14 billion in payments annually, we're just getting started!

MarTrust and the bigger picture

At MarTrust, we are dedicated to enhancing seafarer welfare.

With over a million seafarers worldwide working in challenging and sometimes perilous conditions, often far away from their loved ones, the process of paying them and facilitating fund transfers poses numerous complications and risks.

With the MarTrust E-Wallet, we comprehensively address these challenges, promoting increased seafarer welfare.

By providing peace of mind while they're away from home, we make a real difference in their lives, and that's truly meaningful to us.

THE ROLE: SANCTION SCREENING ASSISTANT

The Sanction Screening Assistant supports the MarTrust Compliance Team and is a key element in a smooth running of AML, CTF, compliance and risk management operational activities within MarTrust.

Your new day-to-day will involve:

Perform various processes owned by the Compliance Operational Team, required to ensure smooth running of the Compliance Operational Functions within our Service Level Guidance, including:

Sanction Screening: Perform sanctions screening to identify and assess risks, mitigating the potential for financial crime and reputational damage. Utilize screening tools daily to flag any red flags efficiently.

Transaction Monitoring: Conduct transaction monitoring to identify unusual or suspicious activity related to transactions processed by MarTrust, supported by screening tools. Ensure timely analysis and reporting.

Communication with bank partners: Handling communication with our bank partners; requests for information (RFIs) and any other inquiries.

Customer Onboarding: When needed, assist with the onboarding process of new customers, to identify and assess the risks posed (and any red flags) by a new customer, to mitigate against the possibility of financial crime and reputational damage and protect the Group, by collecting the required customer information and conducting the required screening and research.

Customer Review: When needed, conduct customer reviews to demonstrate MarTrust's commitment to ongoing monitoring of customer information and transactional behaviour. Review collected information and perform necessary screenings and research on customers, associated entities, individuals, and transactions.

Team Collaboration and Professional Development; Work closely as team player; attend regular training sessions, webinars to ensure Compliance Operational Processes are followed correctly; following updates of relevant laws, regulations and other industry developments, attend internal meetings and respond to internal compliance related enquiries.

Reporting: Providing regular reports, updates, and statistics on the functioning of the compliance operational processes.

Process Improvement: Continuously assess and suggest improvements to compliance processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness, ensuring alignment with industry best practices.

This is what we need from you:

• Degree level
• ICA AML ICA / ACAMS / ACFE Diploma Diploma (Great advantage)
• Fluent in English and Russian2 years experience AML Compliance
• Sanctions Screening / Transaction Monitoring
• EMI / API / Bank
• Experience in communication with bank partners (Great advantage)
• Shipping Industry exposure (Great advantage)
• Oral and written communication - excellent communication skills, is able to explain complex risk terms in business language in English and Russian.
• Change management communicates clearly and manages change effectively.
• Organisational awareness knows how to get things done and gain commitment.
• Team Player ability to work with multiple colleagues in different locations.
• Ability to quickly absorb, analyse and interpret data including root cause analysis and escalate to the MLRO/Compliance Officer.
• Technical knowledge understanding of the UK and EU regulatory environment, Payment Services Regulations, PSD2, money laundering and data protection rules and regulations.

THE STRENGTH OF THE MARCURA BRAND BEHIND YOU

Marcura is led by the two visionary entrepreneurs who founded the company 22 years ago.

Their original mission, which we uphold today, is to streamline digital processes in the globally impacting shipping industry. We do this by putting our customers first.

As an established, successful, diverse and energetic company, we have developed a series of transformative products/brands specifically for the maritime industry which kill analog drag via digitalization.

Global and growing

Our 650+ customers are based in 53 countries.

Our 950+ strong team works in 25 countries.

We're actively developing new products and new product features, and we are targeting continued and significant growth in 2024 and 2025!

You and Marcura

So far, we've done a pretty good job with significant growth and market leading products. But we're even more ambitious now than ever. With big future growth plans we have vacancies for some new teammates with big talents and expertise. In short: We've got big plans.

To be passionate about our customers, we need to be passionate about hiring (and keeping) the best talent. That's hopefully where you come in.

If you are talented and passionate about digital transformation, tech, platforms, SaaS, customer service, and excellence we'd be pleased to hear from you.

Marcura and diversity and inclusion

We're 100% committed to preserving our culture of inclusion and diversity.

We're all different. This makes us stronger as a company and helps to ensure we serve our diverse customers in the best possible way. We're committed to hiring the best people for the jobs we have. And then making sure they're happy and can prosper. We've made good progress already on gender diversity, a particular issue in the shipping industry. We welcome applications from people with disabilities, who may appreciate the flexibility of our remote excellence policy (work from home). So, if you see a job, you think fits your skills and experience, we'd love to hear from you.

SOME OF THE MARTRUST BENEFITS

When you join MarTrust, and the Marcura Group, you can look forward to a host of enticing benefits, including:

• Highly competitive salary and various other benefits
• An extensive and inclusive onboarding process, ensuring you hit the ground running and achieve success in no time.
• Flexibility to maintain a healthy work-life balance.
• Employment with a local team, while being part of a global and ambitious organization.
• A modern performance management framework designed to support your monthly growth and unleash your maximum potential.
• A vibrant working culture and the opportunity to collaborate with international players in the Banking, Payments, and Shipping industries.