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Job Summary

Job Title:
Compliance Officer – AML & Regulatory
Employer:
Tropical Bank
Location:
Kampala
Country:
Uganda
Contract Type:
Full-time
Job Category:
Bank Jobs
Number of Positions:
Deadline:
Tuesday, 31 March 2026

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Tropical Bank was established in 1973 under the name Libyan Arab Uganda Bank for Foreign Trade and Development. Tropical Bank Limited is jointly owned by the Governments of the Republic of Uganda 0.03% and the Libyan Foreign Bank (LFB) 99.97% of Paid-up Capital. The Bank provides professional and personalized commercial banking services to various sectors of the economy including financial support to Parastatals, Corporates, Small and Medium Enterprises, Individuals, and Non-Governmental Organisations.

Full-time

Deadline: 

31 Mar 2026

Compliance Officer – AML & Regulatory Job at Tropical Bank

Tropical Bank

Job Description

As a member of Tropical Bank Limited, your number one focus, over and beyond your assigned duties, will be to support all business activities that will further the achievement of the bank’s business objectives.

Duties, Roles and Responsibilities

  • Track and apprise management on the new bills and proposed amendments on relevant laws, circulars and any regulatory highlights across the industry.
  • Preparing and ensure timely submission of daily regulatory report to management and monitor compliance to regulatory ratios.
  • Follow up on submission of all prudential returns to regulators and other stakeholders within the set deadlines, prepare and share Compliance ratings to management on a weekly basis.
  • Oversee the identification and reporting of any significant regulatory compliance breaches and maintain logs including fines, root cause analysis and recommendations.
  • Work closely with Branches and Head Office Units to obtain necessary support information on suspicious transactions, Regulatory requirements and ensure timely closure of investigations.
  • Proactively carry out market research on the new Regulatory risk trends, developments in the Industry to foster improvements in compliance within the bank.
  • Follow up on the implementation of action plans to resolve all the Bank wide, Compliance, Regulatory and AML/CFT/CPF related issues identified by MRC, BRC, Internal/ External Audit, FIA, BOU, URA ensure closure and report on the progress.
  • Monitor compliance with Regulatory requirements, conducting adhoc tests and gaps analysis on existing Policies and Procedures, mandatory displays, KYC/ CDD requirements for Customer, Agents and service providers in respect to applicable laws, regulations and industry practices.,
  • Ensure prompt response to information requests from all stake holders including but not limited to; competent authorities, Libyan Foreign Bank, Correspondent Banks, etc.
  • Educate and Train all staff with respect to compliance with the applicable laws, rules and standards of Regulatory requirements.
  • Implement the annual regulatory and AML/CFT/CPF work plan, risk/compliance monitoring tools/maps including activities, triggers, probability and actions.
  • Conduct AML/CFT/CPF Risk Assessments through identification and review of risks associated with the Bank, including new products, projects, channels, and correspondent banking relationships.
  • Keeping an inventory of all relevant Policies and Procedures in respect to AML/CFT/CPF and ensuring that they are up to-date with both local and International Regulations.
  • Ensure a 360 monitoring and reporting approach to AML/CFT/CPF across the Bank. This includes, Inbound and Outbound transfers, E-Channels, OTC, Trade Finance, IMTS, etc.
  • Ensuring that STR or SAR are produced and shared with the Line Supervisors and MLCO and escalated to the FIA within the set timelines.
  • Ensure timely submission of LCTR, ALCTR, IWTR and other returns in respect to AML/ CFT/CPF requirements including proper filling of soft and hard copies accordingly.
  • Generating and conducting analytical reviews of AML/ CFT reports and Perform trend analysis of suspicious transactions.
  • Prepare monthly reports on new transaction behaviours including Very High, High, Moderate, Low and Very Low risk customers and their transaction destinations.
  • Monitor compliance with AMLA Cap.118 and any other Regulations issued thereunder, Internal AML/CFT/CPF Policy, Sanctions Policy and the KYC & CDD guidelines.
  • Comply with AML/CFT/CPF policies and procedures, non-compliance of which shall be addressed as per the bank disciplinary processes.
  • Ensure prompt response to AML/ CFT information requests from all stakeholders including Correspondent Banks and International Money Transfers (MITs).
  • Perform periodic review on High Risk Accounts report on any unusual activity and follow-up on closure of any issues noted.
  • Assess the appropriateness of internal policies, procedures in respect to ML/TF/PF risk and supervise the implementation of corrective measure to mitigate the identified issues.
  • Perform any other duties as may be assigned from time to time.

Qualifications, Education and Competencies

See all details of the qualifications, competencies and education for this role under the "How to Apply" section below.

If you meet the above requirements, please submit your application online by sending a cover letter, a detailed CV, and copies of relevant academic and professional certificates to the following email address: recruitment@trobank.com

Application Deadline: 31st March, 2026

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